Panamá’s Museum of Up to date Artwork (MAC Panamá) was based in 1962. At the moment, the establishment is predicated in Ancón, Panamá Metropolis, and homes a set of over 1,200 artworks by Panamanian and Latin American artists from the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
Palma and Taller TO, two Mexico Metropolis structure places of work, have gained a world competitors to design a brand new constructing for MAC Panamá within the Panamá Metropolis neighborhood of San Francisco.
Shortlisted corporations included Consorcio UTM Ateliers, Lanza Atelier, PRODUCTORA, Yektajo Architects. (Lanza Atelier, one other Mexico Metropolis studio, designed the 2026 Serpentine Pavilion.)
The consortium’s proposal was chosen out of 363 submissions, from structure corporations hailing from 56 nations.
Panamanian architect Ginnette Gotti coordinated the competitors, juried by David Basulto, ArchDaily founder; Storefront for Artwork and Structure’s government director and chief curator José Esparza Chong Cuy; planner Martha Thorne; MAC’s Antonio Murzi and Graciela Quelquejeu de Chapman; and designers Ramón Zafrani and Annamaria Zampogna.
Jurors praised Palma and Taller TO for positing a “imaginative and prescient of the museum as an open, accessible cultural infrastructure.”
“Rooted in Panamanian identification, local weather, and panorama, the undertaking proposes a up to date, democratic, and sustainable structure—conceived by collaboration to check new types of gathering, tradition, and concrete life,” jurors stated in a joint assertion.
The constructing will assist MAC Panamá’s conservation division, exhibitions, academic applications, analysis, and public actions, with an emphasis on group engagement.
The primary flooring is split between private and non-private areas, for ease of circulation and workers privateness. Museum places of work, a storage vault, a freight elevate, and repair areas are on one aspect; whereas the opposite is occupied by an archive, youngsters’s room, print workshop, assembly areas, and balconies.
Renderings present the forthcoming constructing wrapped in ceramic lattice screens. The facade’s texture can be seen from areas contained in the museum due to giant spans of glazing that affords views of the landscaped grounds. Native plantings and timber can be speckled all through the museum’s campus.
A courtyard can have palatial ceiling heights, designed for giant gatherings, festivals and movie screenings. Tall columns will delineate the area, nearly like a hypostyle corridor.
Per renderings, gallery areas additionally boast beneficiant floor-to-ceiling heights and can be painted a shade of off-white. Flexibility in thoughts, these can be perfect areas for displaying artworks of all sizes.
Skylights will illuminate the exhibition areas. Kids’s areas will even have beneficiant glazing, washing the areas for play with pure gentle.
The structure and design workforce will now work with the museum to refine its proposal and produce on native professionals and stakeholders to appreciate the undertaking. A building timeline hasn’t been introduced.
