The new EMT Museum is conceived as an urban hinge linking the city with the linear park of Madrid Río. Raised and permeable on all sides, the building opens its presence toward the great pedestrian and green axis along the Manzanares, inviting a continuous flow between architecture and landscape.
Its façade, responsive to the shifting surroundings, acts as a diaphragm that lifts the volume and sustains a vivid dialogue between Madrid’s transport heritage and those who move through it. Like the window of a carriage in motion, the building proposes an experience in which interior and exterior accompany one another.
The project is organized through two distinct circulations: a pedestrian route ascending from the northeast through a gentle, fully accessible corridor, and a bus route entering from the southeast, crossing the museum, and descending to a visitable depot. Both paths—one rising, the other descending—converge in the main exhibition hall, where a dark box is inserted within the building’s perimeter, activating an intermediate space that responds to both façade and landscape. Here, the exhibition narrative finds its anchor: an architecture that, like all surface transport, moves in constant dialogue with the territory it traverses.