Museu do Amanhã

This guide to the Museu do Amanhã in Rio de Janeiro follows architect Santiago Calatrava's applied-science museum at the tip of Pier Mauá, engineered almost like a living organism, with movable solar wings that track the sun and a cooling system drawing water from Guanabara Bay through the concrete structure. It traces the engineering problem behind the building's bromeliad-inspired curves, where every panel needed its own concrete mold and a three-dimensional simulation before it was poured.