tulum site museum

This international ideas competition called for a site museum for the popular Mayan ruins at Tulum in the Yucatán region of Mexico. These ruins were about a 15 minute walk from the parking facilities and the hike to the site was an integral part of the Tulum experience. This design (produced with Ed Zec) responded to this walk and proposed an ambulatory museum that was dug into the landscape running parallel to the entrance route. Tourists would flow onto the museum grounds through a path system that operated in the same manner as a highway on or off ramp.

These sections reveal how the museum frames the jungle and creates a pocket of exterior space below the ground plane. One of the goals in siting this museum was to immerse it in the surrounding foliage.


[geometry study profile and detail]


[relief perspective of interior]