2021 | Building | Unbuilt

Menorca Museum is sited on the island of Menorca in Spain at Cornia Nou, which holds ancient Spanish talaiots. This project serves as a museum for the ancient Talaiot culture and the archaeological site of the Talaiots.

This project is designed to compliment the talaiots through a series of moder- taely sized structures that form a procession through the grounds, ending at the event: the talaiot. The two museum structures are connected by an underground pathway that acts a threshold between the different parts of the museum. The structure off-axis is the offices and library of the museum.

The physical structure of the museum acts as a method of transparency related to the construction of the building, melting together the natural and the industrial. Structural mesh peels off from the concrete and is exposed on the underside of the structure, while the texture of the concrete mixed with sand resembles the ground below. Therefore, the structure grows from the ground, creating a museum experience that becomes apart of the landscape.