GALILEO MEDIA CENTER
TUSCANY, ITALY
Nature knows the right proportion.
The Galileo Media Center is a temporary exhibit in northern Tuscany. It is a floating glass box that provides multi-media access and wireless Internet to Castiglion Fiorentino residents and visitors. It is an adaptive and innovative assembly that addresses the lack of online data network in modern Tuscany. Made of glass and steel, it adds material diversity to the masonry-intensive medieval town. The new addition is a physical "stitch" that connects Piazza Comunale to an urban floor 9 meters lower to its north. By solving this spatial discontinuity, the place becomes more permeable and flexible.
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Giorgio Vasari was an influential Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian. In the 16th century, He designed the famous town piazza using Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian man and Fibonacci numbers. To preserve the town's rich history, the new Galileo laboratory has the same architectural proportion and rhythm as Vasari's. To complement and differentiate, the structure uses modern materials which are absent everywhere else.
