The Plastic Museum is an ephemeral museum located in the square adjacent to the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. It is the first fully recyclable museum in the world and the only museum in the world that opens its doors thinking of closing and recycling them. Designed by the delaVegaCanolasso studio, The Plastic Museum’s goal is to raise awareness on the correct use of plastic.
The delaVegaCanolasso studio has designed a completely prefabricated museum in plastic. It took two weeks to make The Plastic Museum and only 2 days to assemble it in the square adjacent to the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. At the end of its cycle it will be 100% recycled, after the 10 days of the current exhibition. “Conceived as a fundamental part of the awareness campaign on the importance of the correct use of plastic, the museum starts from the condition that it must be entirely made of recyclable plastic. “, explain the Spanish architects,” A virtue is made out of necessity and, by exploiting the unique qualities that the material offers, a building is designed that moves away from the most common to ephemeral installations, opting for a more architectural aspect, different types of plastic are chosen on the basis of their ability to be recycled, their structural behavior, transparency… “.
The museum is characterized by a clean, opaque and translucent white volume, which reflects the internal light through the external structure and invites you to enter. “TOThrough the material the rules of the game are changed, so that the structure is “invisible”, a large mechanism formed by 7 structural porticos in 20mm transparent methacrylate, made up of beams and deep U-shaped columns. “, continues delaVegaCanolasso,” For the casing is chosen white polyethylene, worked and worked to work in solidarity with the ribs. Dense material that allows the envelope to be self-supporting, change its appearance according to the solar inclination and which at night will act as a lantern. Polycarbonate was chosen for the roof multicellular white, taking advantage of the lightness and isolation of this material. All the pieces were cut and numerically numbered so that their assembly could be done in less than 2 days and their disassembly in 1 day. “The goal of this project is thenvite citizens to think and reflect on plastics and on the related effective and sustainable recycling solutions, in which everyone’s collaboration is requested for fight and overcome one of the greatest environmental disasters of our times.