Museo de las Constituciones
Museographic design
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Ciudad de México, México
Lighting design: Lightchitects Studio + TUUX
Graphic design: Tuux + H&T + Jaime Ortíz Lozano
Red Dot Design Award, 2019
Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño, Interior design award, 2020
Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño, For and By Culture Award, 2020
The new interiors of Museo de las Constituciones were part of an integral renovation project on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Constitution. It is oriented towards the general public and specially to young visitors. The museum is housed in a former catholic temple. Because of it’s historical protection, all elements are basically self- standing and enclose most of the installations.
These new spaces respond to a curatorial need for dinamism, warmth and dialogue between architectures. Five thematic lines were accommodated within large organic wooden structures that rise almost nine meters high. All elements were designed in CAD and produced almost entirely by CNC processes at the Tuux factory. Despite no single piece is alike, the whole musem could be replicated as many times as wished.
Birch plywood was chosen for structural elements. A specially made plywood of Mexican pines and Mexican teak was chosen to make a thin plywood for the double curvature cover. The election of wood comes also from an effort to present it as a viable material for architectural uses in a country that privileges cement and metal over traditional knowledge and natural materials.
