Museum of Steel: Turning Brownfield into Greenfield

Energy and sustainability, FULL, Low Density, Project, Surfacedesign Inc., Technology and fabrication, Territory and mobility

Brownfield, Context, Energetic Approach, Factory, Furnace, Future Urban Legacy Lab, Green, Green roof, Green roofs, Greeneries, Greenery, Industrial, Landscape, Mexico, Monterrey, Museum, Project, Steel, Technological Approach, Territorial Approach, Urban Legacy, Water harvests

A team of international designers collaborated to transform a decommissioned blast furnace and a brownfield site into a modern history museum dedicated to the region’s rich history of steel production. Borrowing from materials endemic to the site, innovative landscape design weaves together with modern architecture to usher an old relic into the 21st century. Environmentally sensitive technologies – such as green roofs and a storm water collection system – offer a new approach to the landscape while respecting the original context.