Nivola Museum

The project was created for the competition of ideas “The Living Museum” launched by Terraviva Competition. The project is a formal representation of the creative process in all of its stages: intuition, construction and communion. By accessing the spaces directly from one of the rooms, the individual is accompanied by the architecture in his/her path to creation. The first environment is the formal expression of each one’s imagination, a fluid space that recalls the irregularities of a thinking mind. The freedom of expression it represents is reflected also in the construction technique employed (i.e. sand casting), an artistic procedure invented by Nivola himself and hereby applied on an architectural scale. Moreover, the raw surfaces obtained by modelling the concrete directly on the pressed soil can also undertake further interventions from the guests who will be hosted by future artist residencies.