Seattle-based Robert Hutchison Architecture has built a "ghost-like" pavilion on the roof of Luis Barragán's house in Mexico City as part of his Memory Houses exhibition at the architect's former residence.
The installation, which was placed on top of Casa Luis Barragán during August and September in 2019, was a half-scale reinterpretation of an unbuilt memorial chapel Robert Hutchison Architecture founder Robert Hutchison designed in 1994.
"The chapel installation itself is a memory of something that never was," he told Dezeen. "Here, memory takes on physical form, with the chapel 'remembering forward' to create new connections to the site."

The structure was designed to be a homage to the late architect, who is celebrated as one of Mexico's most important, while allowing visitors to reinvestigate the house's rooftop and the surrounding cityscape. "Chapel for Luis Barragán 'remembers forward' to serve as a homage to Luis Barragán and his lifelong interests in solitude and spirituality, just as it provides a new vantage point for understanding this hallowed site and its neighboring urban context," explained Hutchison.
"The ethereal enclosure creates a space on the rooftop where you can experience both the immediate context of the roof with Alberto Kalach's planters of trees and grasses, just as it frames the more distant skyline of Mexico City rooftops."

The chapel formed part of an exhibition of nine speculative w...