Interface (support) for the activation of the present (the contemporary)

The Villa San Luis Memorial Museum (MMVSL) is not a mausoleum of the past, but a living infrastructure designed to activate memory in the present. The project transforms the last remaining block of Villa San Luis, a symbol of urban integration violently dismantled after the 1973 coup, into a hybrid space: archive, civic forum, exhibition hall, and communal kitchen.

Rather than reconstructing what was lost, the intervention evokes the former housing layout through a conceptual museography that suggests absence. The architecture extends beyond the remaining structure, connecting the memorial to the surrounding real estate development, confronting the present instead of retreating from it.

The building, carefully reinforced, combines passive ventilation strategies with lightweight, reversible structures. A large perforated metal canopy not only filters light but also acts as an urban-scale projection screen, giving the museum a performative, metropolitan presence.

The landscape is conceived as a garden of native, low-water plants, with organic paths and minimal contemplation terraces. The MMVSL is a museum in action, an interface between architecture and society, proposing a space of cohabitation between memory, the city, and contemporary life.