MADMI Museum

San Juan

The project consists of an adaptive reuse of the former Méndez-Bagur Residence into a new Art and Design Museum for the Miramar Community in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The original French Neoclassical house was built in 1914 as the main residence for Luis Méndez and María Bagur, a prominent Puerto Rican couple. After visiting Paris, the couple had their home built following the design of one of the prototypes published in a French book titled Nouvelles Maisons de Campagne, which depicted plans and facades of a variety of country-house-style designs popular in Paris at the time. The project is privately funded by the Fundación Casa Méndez-Bagur to maintain the family's heritage with a cultural center that will contribute to the community and eventually become a catalyst for progress and redevelopment of the area.

 

The project creates a link between past and present by preserving the shell of the original house and adapting it's now dilapidated interior into exhibit spaces for the family's private collection, including art, furniture and memorabilia.

 

The project consists of an adaptive reuse of the former Méndez-Bagur Residence into a new Art and Design Museum for the Miramar Community in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The original French Neoclassical house was built in 1914 as the main residence for Luis Méndez and María Bagur, a prominent Puerto Rican couple. After visiting Paris, the couple had their home built following the design of one of the prototypes published in a French book titled Nouvelles Maisons de Campagne, which depicted plans and facades of a variety of country-house-style designs popular in Paris at the time. The project is privately funded by the Fundación Casa Méndez-Bagur to maintain the family's heritage with a cultural center that will contribute to the community and eventually become a catalyst for progress and redevelopment of the area.