MEXICO CITY.- For its 9th edition, Design Week Mexico is presenting, in collaboration with Museo Tamayo, an architectural commission by the acclaimed Mexican studio, Materia. From October 11th, the temporary architectural pavilion has become a significant cultural attraction of the museum’s gardens in Chapultepec Park, the capital’s biggest public park.

For this project, Materia conceives the Parteluz (Mullion) as an artifact made pavilion and place — a tool for the mapping of time, the dissection of light and the embracement of shadow. The pavillion serves as a fragmenting filter of the surrounding gardens and the infinity of the sky. Its language expresses contrast and duality: object and void coming together in an intertwined fabric of contemporary spirit. Made with craft and distilled technique, the space invites reflection and contemplation.

The pavilion consists of 70 columns of prefabricated white concrete, symbolizing the stereotomic character of Mexican architecture and its relationship with the earth. Their separation provides a dissection of the immediate context of the Tamayo Museum and Chapultepec Park. The columns, each 4,80-m high, are set in a curved layout around the user creating an intimate space. The columns are connected with double pine-wood beams which represent Mexican craftsmanship. The resulting fabric projects the changing shadows onto the surface of the columns.

Founded by Gustavo Carmona and Lisa Beltran in 2006, Materia is a Mexico City-based architecture studio with a multi-disciplinary team committed to one design philosophy: The creation of atmospheres expressed through the thoughtful craft of materials and detail. The studio has realized projects that range from residential, cultural, interiors and hospitality to high-end retail and historic preservation across Latin America, the Caribbean islands and Europe, including Pabellón Quinta Montes Molina in Mérida and the Louis Vuitton flagship store in Mexico City.

Parteluz is commissioned by Design Week Mexico, the country’s leading platform for design and architecture, in collaboration with Museo Tamayo. Previous editions of the annual Tamayo DWM Project featured architectural pavilions by Tatiana Bilbao, Alejandro Castro, C Cúbica & Palomba +Serafini Associati and Nikolaus Hirsch / Michel Müller.