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Calatrava conceived the Museu de les Ciències as the skeleton of a whale, and here the analogy becomes literal: two white ribs fork from a single joint, the logic of a parabolic arch laid bare against the museum's pale concrete skin. Below, the same vocabulary repeats in miniature — a row of narrow vents recedes into shadow, slats of white over black like vertebrae stacked along a spine. The building reads less as enclosure than as exoskeleton, its bones doing the work that walls would do elsewhere. Sunlight does the rest, casting a second, darker rib across the wall that has no structural purpose at all — only a shadow, pretending to be load-bearing.
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