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The architects wanted visitors to navigate through a number of interlocked gardens, plazas, paths, patios, etc. that will eventually unfold and reveal a number of architectural elements and gestures. The Cultural Center is set out in four main buildings, starting off with the museum and its upper and lower galleries; both are accessible by Salvador Novo street. This building features a lower basement and a ‘shifted’ volume above it, forming an upper gallery and a lower portico. Because the volume has been shifted off in the plan, the ‘box’ is cantilevered towards two sides of the building.