Brazilian architects Metro have completed a red glass chocolate museum in the sky.
The elevated Nestlé Chocolate Museum bridges roads and wraps around buildings at the existing chocolate factory in Brazil.
Windows between the tunnel and the factory walls allow visitors to see chocolate being produced inside.
Two towers at either end of the steel-framed structure enclose entrance and exit stairwells.
Located beside a highway between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the bright red Nestlé Chocolate Museum is visible to passing traffic.
The museum shares its colour with the Nestlé Chocolate Museum in Mexico City by Rojkind Arquitectos, who also designed a laboratory in Querétaro, Mexico for the chocolate manufacturer.
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Photography is by Leonardo Finotti.
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Nestlé’s Chocolate Museum, created by Metro Arquitetos Associados, opened this week.
It’s a mega structure for public viewing at the Nestlé factory, the architectural design and museology were in charge of Metro Architects and consists of two towers and an elevated runway, all composed of steel and glass, spread over an area of ​​1850 sq m. The structure calls attention of travelers on the highway that connects São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, the President Dutra, by their structural geometry. The factory is installed in Caçapava (near 110 km from São Paulo).
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Part of the communication project Chocolovers, developed by JWT, brazilian agency of Nestlé, which takes children and adults to tour the factory. Now visitors will not be conducted on the ground, but the high walkway that runs along the inside of the factory.
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With easy access structure provides a roadmap to visitors who, like in a museum, accompany the whole process of manufacture of Nestlé chocolates which will be presented in an interactive and engaging with information about the production process from raw material to the container without disturbing the production.