Inspired by the silhouette of pre-war cars, the project takes on a curvaceous volumetric composition, spanning the width of the building. The overall volume is composed of a translucent chrysalis hull, with its visible structural ribs, and a geometric anchor building to one side. Our design optimizes natural daylight and its location’s prevailing winds to cool the space. Translucent enclosure dominates facade surfaces where its autonomous expression and dramatically different scale recalls the glass barrel-vaulted roof of Le Grand Palais in Paris above its main exhibition space. A sense of rhythm - created by the assemblage of facade and roof structure, light transmitting materials and its soft filtering effect - blurs inside/outside boundaries. Diffused light reaches most corners of the building, producing a calming and introspective ambience. At night, this character is gradually transformed by lighting that washes from the interior onto the translucent skin. Without revealing the space inside, the Chrysalis Hull glows like a lantern or a bioluminescent organism.