Europe, Spain, Valencia, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Museo de las Ciencias Principe Felipe (cut from all sides)
Complex reflecions in the inside of Santiago Calatrav’s Museo de las Ciencias Principe Felipe. The building is part of the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (Santiago Calatrava and F. Candela).
Shot in the main atrium, showcasing the articulated and intricate ‘organic’ (metaphor: the skeleton) architecture of Calatrava. The ‘spikes’ (sharp triangles) of the roof which are visible in the top part of the frame, are shown too, in a shot from the outside: here
More about ths facscinating complex is in this post: here.
Info about the museum, from the museum: "This is the great 21st-century science museum for getting to know in a didactic, interactive, and entertaining way everything to do with life, science, and technology. The Principe Felipe Science Museum has become a reference point for interactive science. Its main objective is stimulating curiosity and critical thinking and at the same time surprising and amusing the public by its contents from the world of science, technology, and the environment."
The spectacular building designed by Santiago Calatrava "contains over 26,000 square metres of exhibitions on current scientific and technical matters. Full interactivity is one of its special features, the motto of which is ‘Forbidden not to touch, not to feel, not to think’. The method used by the Museum consists of a huge variety of seasonal exhibitions and scientific activities of all kinds, to arouse the visitor’s curiosity on new technologies and scientific advancements, so as to generate a pleasant learning process in which the visitor always takes an active part and decides where he/she would like to go and what he/she would like to know."
Source: here.
The CAC is not about ‘enchanted concrete’ like in Sao Paulo here but, staying close to Calatrava’s form language, ‘lush concrete’.
This is number 35 of the Andalucia (& Valencia) 2018 album.
Posted by AurelioZen on 2019-02-07 07:41:42
Tagged: , Europe , Spain , Valencia , Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias , Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe , Reinforced concrete , Concrete skeleton , super wide angle , Olympus ED 9-18mm F4.0-5.6 , symmetry
