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Ocean

Museum

Project Data

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.

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