URBAN CURIOSITIES / University of Campinas, Brazil 2009, International Competition

This project explores architecture as infrastructure rather than object.
A raised platform concentrates the main exhibition spaces, while flows of water, air, energy, and people circulate freely around and beneath it. The roof acts as both garden and collector, hosting photovoltaic membranes and rainwater systems.

The system is designed to grow and adapt over time. Its structure works as an open frame rather than a closed form, capable of receiving future installations, programs, and environmental technologies.

Rather than a monumental building, the Exploratorium becomes a porous metabolic machine, a field of relations between education, science, and the living environment.

Team
Giuseppina Forte, Riccardo Vannucci (Project Architect), Davide Molteni, Erika Trabucco, Joao Sobral, Daniela Tili, Francesco Salvolini, Teresa Figuieredo Marques, Jacopo Pellegrini, Andrea Sirna