A Museum of Memory should be imagined from the non linear character of time and its images. And also how we can hold and transmit this knowledge in a broad and impartial way.
A singular country, between the mountain chains of the Andes and the sea. A museum willing to occupy this band of earth, in homage, through a symbolic view, to these two determinant elements of Chilean geography, marked in the soul of its people.
The memory in evidence, emerging, floating, smoothly elevated. An ark where all the reminiscences of Chilean …show more content…
We understand this history and its tradition, but we consider the possibility of advancing in the construction of a new territory, which has a clear compromise with the citizens’ diversity and the democratic spaces.
Matucana Center will be an open square. It understands and harmonizes itself with the inherited city, incorporating and changing it. The Museum of Memory won’t be an isolated monument, loose and lacking urban [and human] responsibility. On the contrary, it will be an element compromised directly with the delimitation and characterization of this new public space of Santiago.
A generous space is proposed, full of possibilities and pathways. It permits the natural and daily transposition of the square. The urban elements that compose Matucana Center have a civic character. The great ramp of the Museum, the ‘Plaza de la Memoria’, the garden patio constitute a spatial sequence that offers a necessary urban hierarchy for a metropolitan