Oaxaca Cultural Center

Oaxaca being a central point of Mexico’s cultural agenda and with the most important artists such as Tamayo, Toledo, Hernandez and Morales among many others part of the Oaxaca community, it was a must to have an important Cultural Center that will gather the work of all these Mexican artists.

The central idea for this project was to design a museum that could be built with the hands of the local artists as a metaphor, this is why we chose brick as the main material for this proposal, a museum that will generate employment for local people: all the materials will be brought directly from Oaxaca and the handwork will be by the people of Oaxaca.

To have a space that gathers the culture of the 16 originary towns of Oaxaca and the pre-Hispanic culture of the area along with the new architectural and urbanistic tendencies, FR-EE has designed this proposal based on one of the most inspirational aspects of Oaxaca’s colonial architecture: the arch.