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= International Museum of the Baroque =

The International Museum of the Baroque (Museo Internacional del Barroco in Spanish) is a museum of Baroque art designed by Japanese architect Toyoo Itō located in Puebla, Mexico. This museum's exhibition includes examples of Baroque art ranging from painting, sculpture, and fashion to architecture, music, theatre, literature, and food. It's finished through a collaboration with the local architecture firm Federico Bautista Alonso and the landscape architecture firm Tada Arquitectos. It opened on February 4, 2016. The museum opens from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 19:00. Car parking is available. A two-story car park with space for 440 cars, four buses, 42 motorcycles, and 50 bikes can be found on the eastern side of the site.

Design

This museum is situated on a piece of land that is seven kilometers away from the city center of Puebla. The floor area of the museum is 18149.0 square meter.

The design of the architecture started from a grid. While later Toyo Ito used the curving walls to dissolve the rigid order of the grid in order to create fluidity between galleries. This is also a further exploration of his Berkeley Art Museum proposal.

Exhibition space is mainly on lower floors. Walking through the open plaza, entering through the curving canopy, one will reach the main hall. The ticket office, cloakroom, museum shop, and information center are all located in the main hall. and be able to immediately access the exhibition area of the museum and the auditorium. One can also experience those large benches designed by Kazuko Fujie Atelier. These were designed through collaboration with local Puebla textile artisans. One can also find offices, research, and education rooms on first floor, where visitors can watch the restoration of Baroque artworks or read original documents in the library. The museum also holds an International Baroque Saloon for visiting experts and a restaurant and terrace where visitors can try out Baroque dishes. The loading and unloading bays are located on at ground level. They are linked to the humidity and temperature controlled collection storage on the upper floor by a high-capacity lift.

One important design feature of the exhibition space is the skylights. Light is an important aspect in Baroque painting, where they typically create those shadowy scenes. The design of the museum tried to replicate this effect using circular skylights.

Toyo Ito explained the light design :"In the plan which at first glance looks like a maze, we see that each room is connected to the next by a light dome that joins them like rosary beads,"

Toyo Ito Studio hopes that "The MIB will be a cultural meeting center, not only for Mexico but embodies international ambitions. People from around the world will gather here and exchange their thoughts and reflections."

Structure

This architecture is charactered by it's curled white concrete walls. This concrete structure was developed in collaboration with the Mexican company DANSTEK which specializes in precast concrete. .DANSTEK also participated in the design of the structure composed of precast walls and slabs. The walls are precast on the exterior and cast in-situ on the interior. Each piece of the precast walls are made out of two panels of 65 mm white concrete joined as a sandwich panel, also acts as lost formwork which doesn't require any further furnishing. The interior walls are made out of gray concrete that is poured on the field and merged together with the reinforcement, producing a monolithic wall.

The exposed concrete has a bush-hammered texture which can be used to rectify the defects brought by construction on site. The structural load-bearing walls are 36 cm thick and the concrete floor slab is a 70 cm deep lightweight composite with recycled hollow polyethylene (PET) spheres and semi-prefabricated precast slabs for easy and fast assembly.

The museum is designed into a single rigid volume in terms of the structural system,  which helps the building to resist earthquake. The vertical loads are transmitted through the foundation to the ground filler compacted soils. The depth of the foundation can be adjusted through the strip footing construction according to the requirement of outdoor spaces.

Sustainability

Since the architecture is situated in the city's Metropolitan Park, the design tries to be environmentally friendly. The building can harvest and treats both rainwater and sewage and use them to feed the pond around the museum which is part of the landscape design.

References[edit]
http://mib.puebla.gob.mx/en/

https://www.archdaily.com/786104/museo-internacional-del-barroco-toyo-ito-and-associates-architects

https://www.dezeen.com/2016/04/29/museo-internacional-del-barroco-toyo-ito-fluted-white-concrete-walls-baroque-art-museum-mexico/