路易斯-穆尼奥斯-马林基金会是一个非营利组织，旨在保护和促进波多黎各第一位当选总督和他的妻子伊内斯-门多萨的知识遗产。基金会位于这对夫妇居住了几十年的庄园内；这里是他们躲避不断增长的大都市的庇护所。
The Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation is a nonprofit organization that preserves and promotes the intellectual legacy of the first elected Puerto Rican Governor and his wife Inés Mendoza. The foundation is located on the estate were the couple lived for various decades; it was their shelter from the growing metropolitan area.
由于基金会努力保护现有的场地，这个地方仍然是一个自然环境，并保持其原有的气氛。到目前为止，基金会所需的空间已经在现有的结构和80年代建造的档案馆中得到满足，但它缺乏一个合适的会议场所，以容纳路易斯-穆尼奥斯-马林和伊内斯-门多萨的收藏。
Thanks to the effort of the foundation to preserve the existing grounds, the place remains as a natural environment and maintains its original atmosphere. Until now, the spaces required for the foundation have been accommodated in the existing structures and in the Archive building that was built in the 80’s, but it lacked a proper meeting place for visitors and to house the collections from Luis Muñoz Marín and Inés Mendoza.
新游客中心和教育中心成为一个项目，以满足基金会的需求并欢迎游客。项目简介要求设计一个新的建筑，以容纳主要的展览区或博物馆、藏品仓库、行政办公室、实验室、图书馆和一个多功能室。
The New Visitors Center and the Educational Center became a project to aid the needs of the foundation and to welcome the visitors. The project brief asks for the design of a new building that accommodates the main exhibition area or museum, the collections storages, administrative offices, a laboratory, a library, and a multiuse room.
该项目的主要挑战是其场地位置和规模。新建筑的面积远远超过了其他现有建筑的占地面积。要解决的主要问题之一是不要影响地方的感觉。另一方面，该项目需要在物理上巩固基金会和位于其北部的公园之间的关系。该建筑不可能被放置在其他地方，它的形式必须与不规则的地形、树木和历史上脆弱的景观相协调。该项目位于该地产北部界限的一块空地上，与多纳-伊内斯公园相邻。在这对夫妇住在那里的时候，该地块森林茂密，竹子被放置在那里，为建筑群提供安全保障，并界定了财产的界限，后来竹子被认为是一种瘟疫而被移除，留下了我们今天所知的空地。
The main challenge for the project was its site location and its scale. The area for the new building by far surpasses any other existing building footprint. One of the main concerns to address was not to affect the sense of place. On the other hand, the project needed to physically consolidate the relation between the Foundation and the Park located on its northern limit. The building couldn’t have been placed anywhere else and its form must negotiate with an irregular topography, and a wooded and historically delicate landscape. The project sits on a cleared strip of land on the northern limit of the property, adjacent to the Doña Inés Park. During the time the couple lived there, the site was densely forested with bamboo which have been placed to provide security over the complex and defined the property limit, later they were removed as bamboo is considered a plague and left the empty site as we know it today.
该项目重新定义了这个界限，但它主要是为基金会的新入口创造了门槛。主体建筑和多功能厅的衔接形成了一个户外前庭，上面覆盖着一个穿孔铝制顶篷，标识着通往内部广场和其他场地的入口。参观者可以直接进入主楼的展览区，进入多功能厅，或者进入广场，在一个小的公共空间里创造出一个转折点，成为基础建筑的其他部分。广场也是另一个项目策略的连接点：将L.M.M.现有的图书馆/办公室与主要的展览序列相结合。一旦进入主楼，参观者从前厅走过一个轻盈的斜坡，走向展览区，然后他发现了投影室，然后是主展览。
The project redefines that limit, but it mainly creates the threshold for the new entrance to the Foundation. The articulation of the main building and the multiuse room form an outdoor vestibule covered with a perforated aluminum canopy that identifies the entrance to the interior plaza and the rest of the grounds. The visitor can enter directly to the exhibition area on the main floor, go into the multiuse room, or move into the plaza that creates in a small public space which is the turning point for the rest of the foundation buildings. The plaza also serves as the connector for another project strategy: the integration of the existing library/office of L.M.M. to the main exhibition sequence. Once inside the main building the visitor walks over a light ramp from the vestibule towards the exhibition area, then he finds the projection room and then the main exhibition.
在这一序列的最后，游客在视觉上回到了外部，新建筑拥抱了L.M.M.图书馆/办公室，并重新设置了朝向广场和其他基金会场地的视野。你可以通过沿北立面下降的外部楼梯进入包含行政办公室和藏品仓库的底层，或者通过将前厅和展览区分开的内部楼梯。建筑物的构造是由坚实的裸露的混凝土体积塑造的，它结合了光滑的表面和令人想起那里存在的竹钉的纹理。
At the end of the sequence, the visitor visually returns to the exterior were the new building embraces the L.M.M. library/office and reset the view towards the plaza and the rest of the foundation grounds. You can access the ground floor that contains the administrative offices and the collection storages by the exterior stair that descends along the north façade or the interior stair, which separates the vestibule from the exhibit area. The tectonic of the building is shaped by solid volumes of exposed concrete combining smooth finish and a texture that evokes the bamboo spikes that existed there.
Architects: Toro Arquitectos
Area : 13993 ft²
Year : 2011
Manufacturers : Alera Lightning , Columbia Lightning, Kim Lightning, Plyboo, Tectum, Valcor
Lead Architects : José Javier Toro
Production Manager : Luis Rodríguez Nieves
Design : José Luis Pagán, Josean Merced, Marcelo López Dinardi
Construction Supervisor : Marcos Rivera
Mechanics And Plumbing : RAP Consulting
Electricity : Requena Asociados
Structure : Zapata Zapata & Asociados
Illumination Design : George Sexton
Program : Centro de visitantes
City : San Juan
Country : Puerto Rico