National Museum of Underwater Archaeology by Estudio Vazquez

This building was first prize in the “National Project and Work”, in Spain in ’98, starting construction in 2001. The building rises to surface with only two elements: The National Center and the Museum excavated large skylight. Among them, a wide ramp leading down to the visitor inside the museum. The experience of entering is perceived, therefore, as the metaphor of a dip in the sea. The two volumes, one long, prismatic and opaque are available along the route traced by traffic before the walls and parallel to the edge of the pier.

The other, broken, angular and more transparent, adopt a geometry that allows you to form between them a kind of plaza on the waterfront, building lobby, the lobby of the Museum. A public space for outdoor exhibition, where you can collect some of the elements outlined in the interior of the part of the skylight.

The name of the museum, with letters of enormous size, cross the limitless canvas colored concrete facade is inside the center, reminiscent in its design, pop-volume condition, submerged Museum.