CAGE CROSS SECTION GENERAL PLAN GROUND FLOOR

Nacho Miralles Soler Architect

Museum Of History

Located in the center of Valencia, rounded by two important streets we have a big square to design where nowadays there is the Valencia football team sta-dium, There are some residential building to be respected, but not the current stadium that is going to be removed beacause of a master plan.

Here borns the idea of connecting by a diagonal pedestrian walkway both im-portant streets to make an important square for being used by everyone, spe-cially young and university people living around it.

In order to ensure a dynamic space, as the evolution his-tory museum program requires, pieces are moving up and down making the visitors to enjoy the tour in chronological order, beggining with prehistory and ending with the modern age.Some of the exhibition rooms are connected, as the ages does. The diferent pieces (cages) that contains the exhibi-tion rooms are closed spaces with reinforced concrete to give them that appaerance, so the natural light comes from little patios making the space around important. This contrasts with the tour outside the cages, a really lighted space with banks to sit down and enjoy the outside views with sculptures and interesting things.with sculptures and interesting things.A sheet of water round the museum makes it a floating appearance gives an outside feeling while inside as well as offering privacy.