meets
MUPAC
La cueva y la cabaña: dos universos opuestos.
City
Santander, Spain
Program
Cultural
Type
Open competition (3rd prize)
Year
2019
Status
-
Client
Cantabria Government
Renders
Playtime

The new MUPAC is designed as a contemporary Aleph, a place where events, times, and experiences converge. Beyond its exhibition function, the museum is conceived as a public forum where social life, research, and architecture itself are equated with museography. This ambition is expressed through the duality between the cave and the hut: two archetypal forms of habitation that structure the project as a symbolic universe. The cave, introspective and emphatic, emerges from the earth to safeguard the essential; the hut, open and light, rises to welcome encounter and transformation. Between the two, a space is traced that oscillates between permanence and ephemerality, darkness and light, constructing an architectural landscape that invites discovery and collective dialogue.