Museo Jumex
Mexico City, Mexico · 2013
Photo · Simon Menges
A precedent for civic museum architecture featuring a travertine-clad, stacked volume composition with a sawtooth roof and open ground-floor pilotis that integrate with a public plaza.
- What we like about this project
- The entire building mass appears suspended on delicate pilotis, leaving the ground floor remarkably open.
Materials
- travertine
- concrete
- glass
- granite-paving
Visual identifiers
- sawtooth-roof
- travertine-cladding
- pilotis
- recessed-loggia
- stacked-volumes
Style tags
- contemporary
- minimalist
- monumental
- rationalist
Visual tags
- museum
- civic-architecture
- stone-facade
- urban-plaza
- cantilever
- Geometry
- Stacked, shifted rectangular volumes topped by a distinctive sawtooth roofline. The massing features deep horizontal cutouts and cantilevered sections supported by pilotis at the ground level.
- Facade system
- Travertine stone rainscreen cladding with recessed glazing systems.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with cantilevered slabs and perimeter columns.
- Spatial scale
- A mid-rise civic building scaled to command presence in a high-rise plaza while remaining accessible to pedestrians at the ground level.
- Lighting
- Overcast, diffused daylight casting soft shadows beneath the deep cantilevers and within the recessed loggias.
- Atmosphere
- A calm, monumental presence in a bustling urban plaza, characterized by soft stone textures and clean geometric lines.
- Environmental context
- Set within a dense, modern urban plaza in Mexico City, flanked by high-rise glass and concrete towers and interspersed with manicured green lawns and trees.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits on a raised plinth, creating an open, public ground plane that transitions smoothly from the surrounding plaza. Large open loggias on the upper levels offer sheltered outdoor viewing platforms.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal bands of travertine are punctuated by large, deep rectangular voids that break up the solid massing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary monumental minimalism
- Program
- Art museum and public gallery
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- travertine, concrete, glass, granite-paving
- Visual identifiers
- sawtooth-roof, travertine-cladding, pilotis, recessed-loggia, stacked-volumes
- Style tags
- contemporary, minimalist, monumental, rationalist
- Visual tags
- museum, civic-architecture, stone-facade, urban-plaza, cantilever
- Geometry
- Stacked, shifted rectangular volumes topped by a distinctive sawtooth roofline. The massing features deep horizontal cutouts and cantilevered sections supported by pilotis at the ground level.
- Facade system
- Travertine stone rainscreen cladding with recessed glazing systems.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with cantilevered slabs and perimeter columns.
- Spatial scale
- A mid-rise civic building scaled to command presence in a high-rise plaza while remaining accessible to pedestrians at the ground level.
- Lighting
- Overcast, diffused daylight casting soft shadows beneath the deep cantilevers and within the recessed loggias.
- Atmosphere
- A calm, monumental presence in a bustling urban plaza, characterized by soft stone textures and clean geometric lines.
- Environmental context
- Set within a dense, modern urban plaza in Mexico City, flanked by high-rise glass and concrete towers and interspersed with manicured green lawns and trees.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits on a raised plinth, creating an open, public ground plane that transitions smoothly from the surrounding plaza. Large open loggias on the upper levels offer sheltered outdoor viewing platforms.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal bands of travertine are punctuated by large, deep rectangular voids that break up the solid massing.
- Style reading
- Contemporary monumental minimalism
- Program
- Art museum and public gallery
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture