Brazilian Museum of Sculpture MuBE
Sao Paulo BR
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
1995
Type
Nature Preservation
Tags
cultural facilities, art spaces , 200Best
Visitability
Allowed
Description
This museum was designed without the benefit of a pre-defined collection. This led the architect to plan a free outdoor space connected to the neighboring museum and that is also home to a garden (designed by Roberto Burle Marx), water and a concrete floor. Inside the museum there are spacious, open exhibition halls, an auditorium, classrooms and a café. The mold of the original terrain fully emerges in the architect’s design, which takes advantage of the varying elevations in a unique way, merging external and internal spaces without it being possible to see the border between the two.(Text by Catherine Otondo and Jose Paulo Gouvêa . Itinerario de Arquitectura 06 , Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea)