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The extension of the arts and crafts museum (proposed new name: Museo de Arte y Artesania del Maule: MAAM) located in a semi restored, semi abandoned, centenary colonial house was a great opportunity to rethink how to make attractive a permanent exhibition.

But also, how to upgrade the activities related to the cultural programme without saturating the place with technical facilities, but by the contrary, to renovate the urban posture of the 101 year old house.

The proposal semi-buried part of the extension program and located the rest in an administrative “mini tower” in order to liberate the patio and maintain the beautiful camellia trees.

Considering that the adobe walls are more than 1 meter thick the windows thresholds could allocate most of the exhibition pieces like glass display cases.

Thus gaining an important amount of free space to incorporate other activities such as the restaurant, internet café and a multipurpose room and an open air theatre.

Since all the original building became a support for exhibition, this idea was extended to the rest of the new areas. Therefore all the circulations also became space for art.

More, the tower became a periscope that reflected the Andes to the camellia patio level. Bigger art could be hanged inside a triple height space. With landscape as background this resulted as a kaleidoscope effect introducing expectancy to an otherwise closed court.

The façade of the tower was also in constant change. Made from overlapped sheets of copper, which in heat with 25% of dilatation closes its orifices and during winter by its retraction resulting in bigger openings lets the sun in, working as a passive energy sunscreen.

All the architecture brought the curatorial idea that in the MAAM museum, the permanent is never the same…

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Name: MAAM
(Museo de Arte y Artesanía del Maule)
Project: Competition Museum of Arts and Crafts, 3° Prize.
Year: 2004
Location: Linares, Chile
Architect: Juan Pablo Corvalán / Supersudaka
Team: Juan Paulo Alarcón, Pablo Abdala, Carolina Lizama, José Miguel Mardones