| A vibrant space to interact, an “in-between” Museum among the city and the park  |

What is the possible value of a public building, as for a museum, seen as an element of mediation between the city and nature. A question that immediately prompted the need to discard the idea of a completely elevated building, because it would represent a fracture along the boundary between the city and the park. An inconsistent and isolated break of a completely open front towards the Natural area on which this part of the city opens.

The need to ensure the visual and physical continuity between the city and the park, has suggested the archetype of the cave as the main evocative image, a space where the first forms of writing originated, A space that men conquered letting the light come in and moulded through their flows.

A site-specific design that reminds the ancestral and sacred atmosphere of the caves through the power of light on the surfaces and shapes, a space in which nature and artifice blend.

The design process takes part from the excavation and modelling of the existing soil that, while ensuring the physical interaction between the city and the park surface, opens and shapes to allow the light and the Visitors to access and cross it.

The project for the National Museum of World Writing draws a place dedicated to the exclusive use of the city inhabitants, a place with which they are called to interact, as they are called to interact with all the activities and spaces organised inside.