Ocean
Museum
Year
2015
Status
Proposal
Scale
35,000 m2 / 376,736 ft2
Typology
Arts & Culture
Location
Confidential
Client
Consultants
Colinas de Buen, Lord
Team
Fernando Romero, Elisabetta Cabras, Gaia Cella, Alexandra Lukyanova, Luis Torres, Libia Castilla.
Fernando Romero has developed a new landmark cultural institution that acts as a platform for humanistic dialogue. The building consists of a set of 11 interconnected spheres housing the museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions.
museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions. The architecture has a dynamic, fluid and open structure, simultaneously powerful and lightweight.

The building rests on lower spheres that intersect the ground plane to create a semi-covered plaza that functions as both outdoor exhibition space and a civic amenity.
Designed to be constructed with lightweight and durable materials, the project showcases different sustainable construction technologies to achieve considerable energy and water savings and minimal waste generation.