The Mictlán Pavilion Competition was established as part of the activities for the 2018 Mictlán Festival, an annual event held in the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. This event aims to celebrate the Day of the Dead traditions in this municipality, particularly along the Cajititlán waterfront.
For the competition, participants designed an intervention for the San Juan Evangelista pier in Tlajomulco, which served as a transitional space within the Day of the Dead Festival installations.
The event was organized and sponsored by the Instituto de Alternativas para Jóvenes de Tlajomulco, the Secretaría de Turismo de Tlajomulco, and CENTROmx, with the latter responsible for publishing and promoting the competition call.
The proposal, titled “Transición”—designed by Allan Pulido, an architecture graduate from ITESO, and Paulina Castro, an architecture student at the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa—was selected by a jury comprising Manuel Aguilar Moreno (PhD in Art History), Luis Manuel Ochoa (BAC Barrio Arquitectura y Ciudad), Dante Borgo (Main Office), and Denisse Corona (Secretaría de Turismo de Tlajomulco).
The pavilion was built in approximately 10 days under the supervision of architects Luis Manuel Ochoa and Dante Borgo and their team, in collaboration with the Dirección de Turismo de Tlajomulco and the Instituto de Alternativas para Jóvenes de Tlajomulco, and with sponsorship from the Government of Tlajomulco.
This intervention stands out for its interactive nature, creating a dynamic space both day and night. Through a passage featuring colors symbolic of the Day of the Dead, visitors are guided toward an altar, a journey that evokes the path to Mictlán. The project is also notable for its durability on-site and its active integration with the local community.
Competition Organizer: CENTROmx.
Location: San Juan Evangelista Pier, municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico.
Design: Allan Javier Pulido Gómez (ITESO), Paulina Castro Valdéz (Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa)
Area: 240 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: César Béjar Studio / Rafael Palacios Macías / Joel Alavez
See the top three projects and honorable mentions here.
This article was written by Mónica Arellano. The translation is powered by AI.
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