该项目由德国建筑师Nikolaus Hirsch和 Michel Müller设计，永恒博物馆作为墨西哥设计周年度展览馆建立起来——等同于伦敦的蛇形展馆和墨尔本的M展馆。
Design Week Mexico 2016: empty cuboids representing both museum vitrines and coffins are stacked to create this installation outside Mexico City's Museo Tamayo (+ slideshow).
Designed by German architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Müller, the Museum of Immortality was erected as Design Week Mexico's annual pavilion – Mexico City's equivalent to the Serpentine Pavilion in London and the MPavilion in Melbourne.
这个装置位于 Chapultepec公园，毗邻1981年由建筑师Teodoro González de León和Abraham Zabludovsky设计的野兽派艺术博物馆。
游客可以在这个八英尺高的圆形建筑的周围和内部散步，该建筑越往上面开口处越狭窄。
The structure is located in Chapultepec Park, beside the brutalist art museum completed in 1981 by architects Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky.
Visitors are able to walk around and inside the eight-metre-high rotunda, which narrows gradually towards its open top.
钢框架形成了主要结构体系，透明的和半透明的有机玻璃盒子在缝隙之间裂开。
建筑师们把块体的形状比作陵墓和太空舱。
Steel frames form the main structural system, with transparent and translucent perspex boxes slotted in between the gaps.
The architects liken the shape the blocks create to a mausoleum and a space capsule.
模块被设计成墨西哥死亡崇拜的石棺和博物馆展览橱窗。
“我们思考了很多，什么事博物馆？当下设计作品和博物馆的联系是什么?”Hirsch说。
The modules are designed to evoke both sarcophagi – a nod to Mexico's death cults – and vitrines used to display objects in museums.
"We thought very much about what a museum is, and what design in relation to a museum, is today," said Hirsch.
我们认为把保护物品同保护人类联系起来很有趣。
晚上，半透明元素周围和内部的灯光照亮了这个装置。
"We thought it would be interesting to relate the preservation of objects – the raison d'être of a museum – to the preservation of humans."
At night, lights around the perimeter and inside the translucent elements illuminate the installation.
按照德-俄哲学家 Boris Groys的作品来说，博物馆的内部，30分钟的视频解释了项目的理论前提。
2014年在贝鲁特以水平结构的形式最初提出，在今年的伊斯坦布尔设计双年展开始建造另一个相同的作品。
Just behind, inside the museum, a 30-minute video explains the theoretical premise of the project – based on the work of German-Russian philosopher Boris Groys.
It was originally presented in a horizontal configuration in Beirut in 2014, while another iteration is set to be installed at this year's Istanbul Design Biennial.
在设计周期间，Esrawe Studio 和 Cadena & Asociados 用两个对比明显的半球设计了一个可重复使用的香水瓶。
摄影：Alberto Jurtega
The installation was completed for the eighth edition of Design Week Mexico, which runs from 5 to 9 October 2016, and will remain in place until spring 2017.
Also during the event, local designers Esrawe Studio and Cadena & Asociados launched a reusable perfume bottle made from two contrasting hemispheres.
Photography is by Alberto Jurtega.
