Motorcycle
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Project • By DRAA / Del Rio Arquitectos Asociados • Museums
MUMO - Puerto Octay Motorcycle Museum
We were commissioned to design a museum to house the country’s largest collection of antique motorcycles, prior to the corporate dominance of the scene in the 1970s.
Marcos Zegers
The selected site is a large plot on the outskirts of the small city of Puerto Octay, adjacent to the Cardenal Samoré border crossing into Argentina and part of the famous Pan-American Highway, linking Alaska to Tierra del Fuego--well-known, and romanticized by motorcycle enthusiasts.
Marcos Zegers
The client requested a building rooted in local tradition, inheriting the legacy of the German colonization of southern Chile in the mid-19th century. It needed to be large enough to exhibit motorcycles as freely as possible, while also respondi... More
Project • By Dhanie & Sal • Warehouses
Mawi Garage
Mawi Garage is a renovation project of an existing pavilion that acts as a parking area for the owner's daily vehicles, and some of his collection consists of a fleet of off-road vehicles and arrays of motorcycles. An additional loft that will serve as a private office and living quarters for the client is also added during the process.
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Majority of the current structures are preserved and become the base where the design stems from.
Ernest Theofilus
Ernest Theofilus
A homage to the object it shelters, a well-known utilitarian off-road automobile. It wears the essence of the vehicle's masculine design, thus steel is chosen as the main material to echo its rugged character
Ernest Theofilus
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Project • By Bylu Design • Offices
Ducati Training Center
Ducati Training Center China is a place to learn and grow. Here, the historic Italian motorcycle brand, trains its new employees. The subjects taught are: motorcycle mechanic theory and repair, sales and marketing strategies.
For this 350sqm, the client requested a flexible and open space but with separated areas for each of the subjects. Another request was to have a small office and a big storage for motorcycle parts, sales and marketing material.
The client requests set the principles to design the space. We decided to take advantage of the double height of the existing space and designed a mezzanine in the form of an elevated volume. In this way we created a big storage room and, at the same time, visually divided the... More