Aranguren + Gallegos Arquitectos

ICA Miami Museum

ICA Miami Museum
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ICA MIAMI MUSEUM

Aranguren&Gallegos Arquitectos

ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Mª José Aranguren López, José González Gallegos

CATEGORY
Museum

LOCATION
Miami, United States

COLLABORATORS
Pablo Aranguren, Blanca Juanes Juanes, Miguel Alonso, Jacobo Arenal Frías, María González Aranguren, Eduardo Tazón, Alba Carrasco Simón, Belén González Aranguren, Ander Ibarra Paniagua

YEAR
2017

AREA
3450 m²

MANUFACTURERS
Alu-Stock, XAL, Cree

PHOTOGRAPHS
Iwan Baan, Fredrik Nilsen

The new Headquarters of ICA MIAMI Foundation is a museum that offers itself to the city and is conceived to become an international artistic reference and an icon of Miami’s cultural offer.

ICA Miami Museum
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ICA Miami Museum
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The architectural tool used to achieve this target is based on a luminous cubic volume, as a “Magic Box”, a “Boite à Miracle”, open on its two north and south fronts through two perforated and reflective facades.

In the southern facade, the main entrance appears as a transverse passage, which is the lobby of the museum and connects us with the sculpture garden, located in the north of the site.

ICA Miami Museum
© Iwan Baan
ICA Miami Museum
© Iwan Baan

The southern facade is metallic, aluminium, bright, solar, mirror and announcement of the events that will be held at the museum.

ICA Miami Museum
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ICA Miami Museum
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It is closed, protecting the exhibition halls from the direct solar radiation of the south.

ICA Miami Museum
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ICA Miami Museum
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The facade is pierced by luminous small openings that respond to a triangular geometry, a consequence of the evocative fracture of the lateral movements of the strong hurricane winds.

Underneath the metallic plane, floating, a horizontal strip is created on street level, a shadow where the letters of ICA MIAMI appear, large and deep, like the columns that support the building.

ICA Miami Museum
© Fredrik Nilsen
ICA Miami Museum
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The museum opens to the north with a glass facade, giving natural light to the halls and being the holder for installations and temporary artistic creations made with different illuminations or vinyl adhesives on the glass.

The exhibition halls are neutral, white, bright spaces with the sufficient height for large format installations.

The museum complex is complete with an exterior space, the “Garden of Sculptures”, conceived as a large outdoor exhibition hall.

ICA Miami Museum
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ICA Miami Museum
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ICA Miami Museum
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ICA Miami Museum
© Iwan Baan
ICA Miami Museum
© Iwan Baan


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First Level Plan
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Second Level Plan
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Third Level Plan
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Location Plan


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Aranguren + Gallegos Arquitectos
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