included in the urban rehabilitation of the promenade du paillon, the mamac (museum of modern and contemporary art) is the core of this city-transforming intervention.
the project by joão luís carrilho da graça updates the 1990s existing museum into the contemporary needs and demands of a major contemporary art museum while reinforcing an urban sense of pedestrian crossing.
in its formulation, the program assumed the construction of a closed and covered atrium on the ground floor, crossed by circulations. the solution developed, of an elevated atrium, favours, instead, true fluidity of urban connections, a significant improvement in the distribution of functions, circulation and the quality of the museum's spaces. bringing together the four pillars, a large double-height room, with a surface area of ​​approximately 3500m2 on its two levels, offers an essential exhibition space. raised above the ground, connected to vertical circulations that give the interior paths a functional logic and a new legibility, it allows the free passage of the garibaldi lane and the large alley of the park.