Turin: Chocolate & Baroque

← Spatial Narratives 2018 Competition · Study · Co-Author: Miloš Kašul Nikolić

Chocolate — textural, figural, transformational — offers a lens to understand the Baroque through both material and sensual dimensions. A museum standing at the edge of the street, in a state of constant change.

2018Year

Competition StudyType

Turin, ItalyLocation

Object-Oriented OntologyMethod

The Research

A Museum in Constant Flux

The Turin Chocolate Museum is an amalgamation of transparency, solids, and transformed volumes.

Its glass box allows the building to behave as an exhibit — creating 'third masses' and 'third spaces' that facilitate fluid connection between inside and outside.

The Baroque
Diagonal movement, sliced edges, urban transformation — Turin's Baroque planning logic mirrors the sensuous richness of chocolate: always presented with grandeur, motion, and intense emotion.
Materiality
White solids as boundary between city and museum. Gold-and-white interiors ooze exuberance, reflecting chocolate's vibrant nature in seamless, interactive spaces.
Figurative Spaces
Pearl-like figures pushed into proximity by a border element derived from urban boundaries — intersection spaces behave as passages orienting visitors across zones of activity.

Chocolate Museum Turin — Street Edge

Interior Figurative Spaces