1 : 500Longitudinal section

1 : 500

1 entrance2 exhibition area

3 Planetarium4 projection room

5 conference room6 restaurant

7 service 8 technical

Ground level

1 : 500Underground level

1

2 2

3

45

6

7

8

Site Plan0 20 100 200

program volume

t o p o g r a p h y alignment

open space

space created by force of nature

overall view

serviceeducationexhibition

With respect to its greatness of nature creation, rather than build any obvious human intervention, we pro-pose the museum that disappear in topography. The museum is created by do nothing more than just simply punch-out the hole on the ground . Then, all required exhibition spaces will be inserted under the sand land and leave the ground above as it is. The interior space is vibrating all the times according to force of sand deposition and withdrawal variation. Both outside and inside are connected and naturally change along with the entire desert.

With this soft touch, the museum will become the place where educate visitor lively, in the same time will become the place where sky and ground connect without any obstacle barrier.

What kind of architecture should be placed on Atacama- one of the world greatest desert?

The lighting tube �eld that integrated with the elastic roof structure is program-mable in order to perform the virtual exhibition for museum underneath. The protrude part above navi-gates the visitor for star observation and identify the museum boundary that blending smoothly with topography.

SAND ATLAS

light tube�eld

sand

elasticroof

exhibition

site terrain

punch out the land.

insert an elastic struc-ture frame-work.

after carve out, weight of remaining sand above will create u n d u l at i n g space.

wall and partition are built by sand that was taken out.

Process Program Layering

elastic (nature) light (device) day (exhibition) night (navigation)

outside

inside

device

solid (human)

space time

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