NEW EMT MUSEUM

Our proposal for the competition for the new EMT Museum, developed together with CEPA Arquitectura e Ingeniería, envisions a building that does not exhaust the maximum allowable volume. Instead, it integrates into the surrounding park, frees up ground space and creates landscaped courtyards, ensuring views, natural light and ventilation. An architecture that does not impose itself, but engages in dialogue with the neighbourhood and allows residents to reconnect with the natural environment.

The project takes the form of an urban pavilion conceived as a transition between the city and the park. A hybrid structure of wood and concrete, with a dry-assembled reinforced concrete structural system that spans large distances and enables a flexible, open-plan architecture, combined with a timber panel envelope that offers a warm, welcoming appearance in harmony with the surrounding vegetation.

The construction solutions, based on prefabricated and modular systems, are designed from the outset to accommodate future extensions, transformations or repairs, without compromising the building’s structural or functional integrity.

The system of interior courtyards organizes the exhibition spaces, creates visual and spatial connections between different areas of the museum and acts as a bioclimatic atrium. This passive strategy allows natural ventilation and cooling in summer and, in winter, functions as a greenhouse, capturing and redistributing solar radiation throughout the interior.

Flexibility, energy efficiency, sustainable construction and sensitivity to the surrounding context are the main strategies that define this project.