Cultural center for the reconciliation of peruvian people, exhibition spaces, research center and auditorium
location: lima, peru
client: presidential commission for the place of remembrance - peruvian ministry of culture
design team: s. barclay – j.p. crousse
built surface: 4896 m2
project team: p. shimabukuro, r. aguirre, s. cilloniz, c. fernandez, e. zambrano
competition: 2010 – first prize
completion: 2013
opening to the public: 2015
fotographer: c. palma
awards:
oscar niemeyer prize - red de bienales de américa latina - quito 2016 / hexágono de oro prize - 16th bienal de arquitectura del peru, 2014 / mies crown hall americas prize - nominated project - IIT, chicago 2014 / cica award for latin-american architecture - international committee of architectural critics - buenos aires 2013 / premio bienal - américa latina - XIV bienal internacional de arquitectura de buenos aires, 2013
Published in: En Blanco 26 - 2019 / Arquine 87 - 2019 / Arquitectura Viva 151 - 2017 / Summa+ 154 - 2016 / Casabella 844 - 2014 / PLOT special edition 3 2013 / AV Proyectos 040 2010
A presidential commission led by Nobel prized Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa launched in 2010 a national architectural competition for the construction of the Place of Memory, a place where people from diverse political and social origins work together to reach a possible reconciliation between the Peruvian people, following a bloody conflict initiated in 1980 by the terrorist movement, Shining Path, counting more than 70000 dead in twenty years.
The jury was conformed by Kenneth Frampton, Rafael Moneo, Francesco dal Co, Wiley Ludeña, and José G Bryce.
The project is carefully inserted into the existing territorial logic of cliffs and ravines that characterizes the bay of Lima, thus merging harmoniously with it. By doing this, the building evokes memory in a much broader significance: the memory of landscape in its physical configuration and materiality, rather than dealing only with violence and political memory, which is the role of the permanent exhibition.
