TEN Arquitectos has recently completed the rehabilitation and amplification of the Amparo Museum in Puebla, Mexico. Located close to the city's historical centre, the museum is composed by various historical colonial buildings, and holds permanent collections of pre-hispanic pieces, baroque art and contemporary art.
In their project, TEN Arquitectos sought to modernise the spaces and their museographic script, creating a new way to navigate the space and the museum’s different collections. "By adding a vestibule," state the architects, "we motivate the intercommunication between the collections, but at the same time they can be accessed and enjoyed independently. In the same way, we establish a new way to intercommunicate the museum’s services, so the public and private aspects could be separated and work more efficiently."
TEN Arquitectos: Amparo Museum
In the modernisation and amplification of Puebla's Amparo Museum, Enrique Norten creates a new way to navigate the space and the museum’s different permanent collections.
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- 17 May 2013
- Puebla, Mexico
Creating spaces like terraces and gardens, the architects took advantage of the museum's vantage points, allowing visitors to know new aspects of Puebla, by opening up to views of different domes, towers, churches and natural landscape around the city.
The project also created more temporary exhibition spaces, and modernised all the electromechanical, structural and media systems, taking into account the opportune maintenance of the entire building.
TEN Arquitectos: Amparo Museum
Location: Puebla, Mexico
Architect: Enrique Norten /TEN Arquitectos
Project Team: Enrique Norten, Salvador Arroyo, Carlos Salas, Alejandro Solis, Marisol Moreno, Daniel Hernández, Omar Barcenas, Luis Farfán, Farid Hernandez
Program: Museum, lobby, auditorium, gift shop, restaurant, offices, lecture rooms and storage
Area: 39,380 square metres
Client: Amparo Foundation
Completion: 2013
Cost: $400 million Mexican pesos