Tangle of emotions

Design concept for a Museum of Emotions

Annual international architecture competition promoted by Buildner

project listed in the top 40

Tangle is a museum that you don't visit, you experience. The architecture becomes a tool for orientation and awareness for visitors who enter at one point, go through their emotions and leave changed, with a greater awareness of themselves. 

Emotions are not linear; they are immaterial substances that lead us towards something unknown that we hold on to and that subsequently envelops us. We are the result of emotions reflected by the environment and the people who are part of it, thus creating a tangle that changes every time according to the surrounding environment.

Tangle is a museum that is constantly changing, a reflected image that lives off its surroundings, a shell conceived as a suspended, compact and intricate body to be traversed. Inside, the experience is progressively simplified into a linear and continuous path of moments that evoke different sensations. At the entrance, a luminous thread guides visitors into an evanescent and disorienting space. In the negative room, the thread thins and suspends itself, generating instability, uncertainty and fear. In the positive room, the thread expands and intertwines, becoming a soft and welcoming surface designed for rest and calm.