8th International Arquine Competition: A Site Museum for Tulum

ends Mar 17, 2006
8th International Arquine Competition A Site Museum for Tulum
The design of a site museum in an archeological area constitutes a challenge that merges contemporary and prehispanic architecture, cultural infrastructure and tourism, sustainability and territory.

Of the possible places suggested by the INAH (National Institute of Anthropology and History), the choice of Tulum, on the Quintana Roo coast, responds to a variety of factors: from its spectacular landscape positioning and the site's historical-archite ctural relevance, to its renown around the world.

Located in the touristic area of the Maya Riviera, Tulum is the third most-visited archeological site in Mexico, with over 2,000 visitors daily in high season.

This condition implies, together with the great public influx potential, the continuous overflowing of its infrastructures and a threat for its conservation.

You are invited to develop a museum with a total surface area of 500 m2, located outside the walled area.

Considering less successful examples in this field, whose desire for protagonism competes with the preexisting architecture, the competition seeks to favour contemporary languages capable of dialoguing with the landscape and the prehispanic legacy in a discreet way, bearing in mind topography and local materials, climate and light, as well as the project's environmental aspects and socio-