TERRA INCOGNITA

A MUSEUM FOR THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH ON THE MOON

How can Architecture engage in outer space artificial structures, introducing a notion of sensibility to a technological structure?

How can a satellite view raise awareness regarding issues of Anthropocene and decay of the natural environment?  How can we utilize extraterrestrial structures produced by
scientifi c organizations for cultural significance?

We’re in the verge of moving to outer space. What is the future of the Earth? What could be the narrative then? Is Earth rotten already or will be?

Terra Incognita, Latin term meaning unknown land, was originally introduced in Ptolemy’s Geography c. 150  to define regions of the world that have not yet been
cartographically registered and therefore remain unknown or unexplored parts of the world.

In the 21st century, under the surveillance and mappin of satellites and other monitoring and scanning devices, hardly anything can still remain unknown an unregistered in our encyclopedia of data. What remains a mystery isn’t so much anymore the static morphological features of our planet, but rather the dynamic interaction between humans and human-made environments of the Anthropocene with the rest of the animal populations and the natural landscape.

Terra Incognita is reintroduced in the field to raise awareness regarding our incapability to perceive and analyze in depth such complex phenomena as well as our failure to realize our truly close connection to nature and our current derailment from nature’s trajectory and
evolution. Serving as a museum and educational center, Terra Incognita uses the technology of satellites to project the interactions and dynamic systems that currently exist on the Earth’s surface, raising a level of understanding, as we envision our reality within the ecology of the planet.