The TOMB

There are not many places left in the world where the urban wire breaks down and retreats in front of the pure nature. There it allows you to feel connection with the primordial, almost lost fossil source of wild life.A desire to lurk and silently observe comes in such place.

When approaching the design of a museum in an ancient crater near Naples, the main idea was to integrate into this place as delicately as possible, minimally affecting the precious natural formation. Burying the main body of the museum beneath the natural hill would reveal a direct connection between the objects of the exhibition and the museum itself. Main exhibition space is immersing the extinct creatures in the soil to which they actualy belong. This space is organized as a consecutive areas, separated by curtains of used polypropylene cloth.

The exhibition chronologically shows the stages of extinction on earth, beginning with mighty elder dinosaurs and ending with a dramatic object of a human skull lying on a pile of plastic trash. This emphasises the connection of everything that happened in the past with what is happening now. after a long ramp leads the visitor back to the surface to the terrace to the bank of the silent lake, personifying a kind of catharsis of the viewer and allowing him to view the exhibits from above

The building itself has been designed using sustainable materials such as rammed earth as the main wall material and glued timber beams of recycled wood. The climatic features and the building's burial into the ground make it as energy efficient as possible