The new building for the Atacama Regional Museum aims to be an iconic landmark, reflecting the identity of the Atacama region and its more than 16,000 years of history through regional character and architectural flexibility.
Below, we present the first-place winning proposal by Máx Núñez Arquitectos. The design is inspired by the natural processes that have shaped the local geography: a heavy, solid volume fractured by irregular fissures, mimicking the effects of desert erosion.
