Textile Landscape
A Women’s Museum in the Metropolitan Park of Santiago
Yale School of Architecture
Studio Cazú Zegers
Santiago, Chile
2020
The Twenty-first Century Women’s Museum of Santiago seeks to reconnect visitors to the natural landscape, spirituality and heritage, all central to the indigenous communities of Chile. An asymmetrical Aymara textile - representing the world’s misalignments - generates the building’s form, which has taken the shape of the landscape. Rammed earth volumes emerge from the ground, overlap the central axis and fill the site’s crevice.
built & unbuilt
building, water,
hardscape, landscape
solid & void
axis
textile
The central axis is also the spine of the project which brings water down from the canal in the form of a narrow channel into reflective pools and planting beds for irrigation. It is also the access and connects the road to the south, the pedestrian paths to the north and the spaces within the building.
1. pavilion
2. lobby & winter garden
3. water gallery
4. administration
5. community space
6. light gallery
7. agora
8. restaurant