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Museo cetacei

The project for the Pelagos sanctuary and the recovery of the “ex-Galeazze” building has been imagined pursuing two fundamental purposes:

  • recover integrally the ancient building through the elimination of all the additions make during the time;
  • create a center dedicated to the knowledge of the sanctuary and the cetaceans through a highly didactic and multimedia immersive experience.

The two purposes, which have become the guide of our design, led us to imagine the building as a container to be enhanced and the “Center of Interpretation of the Cetacean Sanctuary” as the content to be preserved to generate knowledge of the territory and place of exchange and meeting.

Content and container become two osmotic elements that get value from their extreme coexistence.

The spaces of the Galeazze building, recovered their ancient majesty, will host an installation that, through the use of a single monochrome blue wall-floor element, will accompany the visitor from the outside to the inside, immersing him in a seascape: a large amphitheater that, crossing the two naves, embraces all the models of cetaceans that seem to move as a big herd.
To complete the offer of the interpretation center, on the upper floor there will be the didactic laboratories and the multifunctional spaces that, if necessary, will become classrooms for meetings or events.
The entrance will instead become the point of contact between the new museum and the territory; in a welcoming room, visitors, in addition to accessing the museum, will be able to have a large bookshop dedicated to cetaceans and the territory of the Tuscan archipelago, where they can buy books and products as well as find support for organizing trips to the archipelago, producing an external economic return only for operators who follow the rules of respect for cetacean sightings (sailing boats, correct distances).

All spaces and interventions have been designed to have two types of flexibility: a spatial and functional.

The most flexible areas from a functional point of view will essentially be the central area, the “amphitheater”, and the large multipurpose room on the first floor.
In the central arena, thanks to the tables on wheels, it will be possible to be quickly freed at need in order to create situations for the temporary setting up of fairs, concerts and meetings under the big reproductions of cetaceans. The large storage spaces provided will allow to deposit the furniture.
On the first floor instead the room, usually used for didactic laboratories, can be quickly set up for small conferences and meetings; the polyfunctionality of the spaces is enlarged by the possibility of having two accesses (one direct from the entrance and one direct from the second aisle).
In addition to the multipurpose room, the first floor is equipped with a dedicated meeting room.

As already mentioned above, the maintainability of mechanical and electrical systems is achieved through the use of visible systems that run through all the aisles behind the walls of the setting.

The works of interior fittings are completely dry and therefore the existing building is absolutely adaptable to different functions in the future, safeguarding the original building. Through the use of software designed specifically for the museum experience, the multimedia system will ensure maximum flexibility with regard to the implementation of content throughout the museum, both remotely and locally.
This will allow to propose to the visitor both different paths of investigation in time, and completely new or temporary contents, for eventual short term exhibitions.

Info and credits

YEAR: 2020

LEAD ARCHITECTS: Up-a (Uboldi Paolo Architetti srl)

STRUCTURAL DESIGN: Ipe Progetti

PLANT DESIGN: Gruppo Ingegneria Torino

AV CONSULTANT: Acuson