Pachacamac Site Museum by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Finalist in the MCHAP 2014/2015
15/07/2016.
[Lima] Perú
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Taking the Sanctuary of Pachacamac as protagonist, a project that gives as much importance to landscape as to architecture design arises. Result of a thorough study on the process of both architectural and spiritual conformation of the pre-existence, Patricia Llosa and Rodolfo Cortegana offer us a contemporary building which is still respectful with the environment and the pre-existence.
Preexistencies at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
Preexistencies at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
Preexistencies at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
General view of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
Exterior view of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
Exterior view of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
Exterior view of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
View from the open-air spaces at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
View from the open-air spaces at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
View from the open-air spaces at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
View from the open-air spaces at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
View from the open-air spaces at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
View from the open-air spaces at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
View from the open-air spaces at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
Exterior view of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
View of the space of coexistance of the old and the new part at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
View of the space of coexistance of the old and the new part at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
View of the space of coexistance of the old and the new part at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
View of the space of coexistance of the old and the new part at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
Interior view of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
Interior view of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
Interior view of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
Model of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos.
Site plan of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos.
Context prexistence general plan of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos.
Plan of the different pieces of the preexistence at the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos.
Deposit and service plan of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos.
Exhibition plan of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos.
Roof plan of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos.
Elevation of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos.
Elevation of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos.
Section of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos.
Section of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos.
Section of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos.
Section of the Site Museum of Pachacamac by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos.
The Pachacamac Site Museum arises from the territory, from its topography, praising the prehispanic buildings that coexist with it as the maximum protagonist. A space that, inspired by the idea of pilgrimage allows the visitor to flow in that complex whole formed by the pre-existence, the new piece and the landscape. It is evident in this proposal how Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos understand the visitor as more than a mere observer, interacting with the architecture in the construction of a reality that prepares him for the experience of the Pachacamac Sanctuary.
Description of the project by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos
The Pachacamac Sanctuary is a place where prehispanic architecture moves us with its silence and scale, their promenades are long spaces confined by wall structures that constantly confront us to the worship spaces. Its relationship with the environment is defined by extensive strokes that the occupation over time. Prehispanic architects understood that architecture was a mediation between man and the worship of their gods, with a deep tradition they were allowed to operate their projects from the insertion of specific strategies that adapted to the territory. Thus, the building tradition was defining its architecture and added its innovations to the circumstances of the territory and location.
The new museum lands from a lightness that contrasts with the elements of prehispanic architecture, where the wall defines its main stroke and its promenades are always in tension with the Sanctuary. The Museum allows us to build a museistic reality of the territory.
Contemporary architecture tries to speak of prehispanic architecture, taking its elements to build an alternate grammar with which it is allowed to inhabit the symbolic landscape and to define spaces that frame the Sanctuary.
The museum project was born from its relationship with the territory, its topographical stroke and the possibility to establish itself as a mediator with the landscape. Outdoor promenade spaces are hierarchically classified to frame the prehispanic temples. The building adapts to the territory directing the gaze, thus, reinforcing the relationship with the preexistences.
The volumes are folded in a telluric gesture, tensioned by the gaps of its ramp promenades, associated with the prehispanic streets that pilgrims used to approach the temple through linear spaces that ordered the course of the crowds within its walls large scale.
Its materiality is expressed through the fair-face concrete walls framework. is associated with rough plank prehispanic walls, while trying to show its difference through the thickness and mass. In an attempt to build the shadow typology, the project avoids the composition of openings and holes, trying not to compete with the pre-existing structures. The project defines its shape from the wall.
The new building is placed with a weak attitude towards the environment, the scale is handled in complicity with the topography and uneven terrain to avoid breaking into the place. It's just going down to the meeting place where the building is revealed in its full scale. The project demonstrates a deep respect for the sacred territory where it is inserted, manifesting itself at the same time as a laminating layer more related to the long process of transformation of the Sanctuary.
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Architects
Project team
Angelia Piazza, Daniela Chong, Llona / Zamora, Braulio Miki, Jorge Avendaño, Adela Zavala, Jose Ortiz, Solange Avila
Developer
Culture Ministry of Perú.
Constructor
Prisma.
Area
Built roofed area.- 3028.00 sqm.
Built non-roofed area.- 4490.00 sqm.
Total.- 7,518.00 built sqm .
Dates
Project date.- December 2005 - August 2013.
Construction.- November 2014 - November 2015.
Construction.- November 2014 - November 2015.
Venue
Pachacamac Sanctuary. District of Lurín, Lima, Perú.
Total budget
US$ 3,330,000.00 sq
Photography
Juan Solano.
Rodolfo Cortegana, Patricia Llosa. Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos
Llosa cortegana Arquitectos. Despite having studied at the same university, Patricia Llosa and Rodolfo Cortegana did not get to know each other until 2001 when they were called to take part in the same competition. They later co-participated in some others, as a result of the harmony that they found in their design methodology from the first moment, as well as being invited to teach in the same design workshop at the Faculty of Architecture of the Catholic University. As a consequence of such experiences, they partnered to found their own practice in 2005, under the name 'Llosa cortegana Architects'.
Patricia Llosa is an architect from Ricardo Palma University. She did the Master 'Architecture, Criticism and Projects' at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain (1999). She has participated in various courses, conferences and workshops on teaching and creating projects.
Rodolfo Cortegana is an architect from Ricardo Palma University, where he received the award for the best thesis supported by the Museum of Contemporary Art. He did a master's in Museology at the University of Ricardo Palma. He also conducted research on Public space and its interaction with the Climate', receiving a grant from the Belgian government.
Patricia Llosa is an architect from Ricardo Palma University. She did the Master 'Architecture, Criticism and Projects' at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain (1999). She has participated in various courses, conferences and workshops on teaching and creating projects.
Rodolfo Cortegana is an architect from Ricardo Palma University, where he received the award for the best thesis supported by the Museum of Contemporary Art. He did a master's in Museology at the University of Ricardo Palma. He also conducted research on Public space and its interaction with the Climate', receiving a grant from the Belgian government.
