Center for the Promotion of Science

Reminiscent of a group of Petri dishes for a laboratory experiment, a composition of circles was marked out on the plot. These surfaces are materialized, depending on their programmatic needs, into blind volumes, glass cylinders, walled gardens or paved plazas. An underground level links all of the interior and exterior spaces, creating a broad diaphanous space, which is intersected and structurally supported by the circles contained in the different exhibition areas. At the upper level, the park extends over the roof of the building in a landscape of cylindrical volumes and circular openings that allow a continuous interaction between the interior and exterior of the complex. The Center for the Promotion of Science thus becomes a building that extends its radius of influence over the entire property and energizes the large Science Park.