Searching for a new typology: What do we do when we do not like what we have and we want to replace it with something new, but we do not know what this should be? This question, apparently so obvious, is, for me, the definition of the word crisis, and is much more significant than it might seem at first sight in any field of knowledge, including architecture, which is the field we are interested in. The glass box is a collective research project that tries to find an abstract spatial prototype (not situated in any concrete location but easily adaptable to all) that defines the new organisation of all the museum components in order to replace the obsolete programme of the present-day museum. Its name refers to a double meaning: on one hand conceptual transparency, on the other spatial transparency. The former entails an intent to reflect in a clear way the whole process generated by the development of the project. The aim of the physical transparency is to achieve, via the spatial organisation, maximum visual permeability of all activities of the museum for the visitor.

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Juan Carlos Rico has a PhD in Architecture from the Madrid Higher Technical School of Architecture, in Art History from the University of Salamanca Faculty of History and in Sociology from the UNED - Spanish National Distance Education University. At the moment he is carrying out studies in Science and Philosophy at the UNED. He´s a museum curator.