Macau World Heritage Museum Extension

Competition design for Macau World Heritage Museum extension.

Designed by JWCC Architecture and HÜNE Architects

Design Proposal for Macau’s World Heritage Museum, located at the site of a large archaeological pit dated back in the 16th-18th Century, adjacent to the world renown Ruins of Saint Paul’s Cathedral.

With such a site context, we acknowledge that Macau is created upon overlapping layers of history, with people above ground living their daily lives while remnants of time are dormant in the earth. We attempt to express such a relationship in the museum by creating a 2-tier compositionbelow is an earthen space connected to the soil, while above is an interconnected urban park, opening to the city and its visitors.