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MUSEUM OF MAN: A symbol of memory

Part 2 Project 2006
Ana Maria Jimenez Ramirez
Luis Arcesio Tobon Sanchez
 National University of Colombia - Medellin campus | Colombia
As a tree, the Museum of Man reaches toward the sky seeking light with pure and simple forms to become a symbol of memory. Also as a tree, the building uses its roots to gain nourishment and stability from the earth, as man uses his memory to support his existence. The path inside the museum, ascends from permanent galleries of the past to contemporary traveling exhibits. Reaching outward, the project embraces the visual presence of both natural and artificial landscapes, to accommodate cultural events by offering quality public spaces that allow the inhabitants to develop effective and intellectual memories.


Our VIII semester project workshop aims to synthesize the acquired Knowledge in urban, architectural and technological areas, exploring the relations between public space and public building, in urban renovation areas. For to develop this objective, this level professors encourage students for design a museum into a parcel with a city urban ordinance as Science Public Park destination, near to Medellin’s downtown.

This project has been nominated for his creative and extreme symbolic solution to this architectural problem. The proposal interprets correctly the Science Public Park destination of the parcel, with topographical forms that clearly symbolize the archeological and anthropological subject of the museum.

Professor Juan Carlos Castañeda Acero.

2006
Among this system of public spaces, just where those “articulated behaviours” converge, the museum bluntly, but softly, appears as the structuring element of the ensemble, respecting the surroundings and accentuating its character as the new symbol.
The distant scenery turns into a first ground
Tree– penetrates the ground to nourish life. New branches and new leaves – clean air and nutrients
Evaluation process - from past to present
The public space interacts in different ways with its surroundings. A mayor green zone, gives continuity to the existing green belt that the U de A university, the Parque Norte Park and the Botanical gardens create at an urban scale.
At a city scale, in an area of strong cultural character, the project’s public space generates a new topography, helping articulate the existing activities generated by the educational, recreational and institutional buildings on the surrounding area.
A defined open space as an extension of the public area along Carabobo Avenue (an axis of metropolitan character) facilitates the collective urban “encounters”.
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