The project objectives were developed in close interaction between architects and the institution, including directors, counselors, as well as curatorial, educational, conservation, and technical staff, and are as follows:
• To open up to the context, both to the city and the park, recognizing environmental structures, valuing integrations, and configuring a barrier-free public zone for more open and democratic uses, aiming to contribute to the urban requalification of a fragile and complex social context;
• To reverse obsolescence, acknowledging the historical value of pre-existing structures, giving them new uses compatible with their structure, spatiality, and materiality;
• To offer new open spaces of undetermined use that, by stimulating new and unforeseen appropriations, redefine the museum's meaning and vocation in terms of education and reflection for socio-cultural inclusion. Providing studios for educational activities, a library, and a documentation center as well as a set of gender-free public toilets, all adjacent to the central square at ground level with open public access, was essential;
• To add to the set of exhibition spaces available at the previous Pinacoteca’s buildings new scales, more curatorial and exhibition possibilities, and richer experiences for visitors, aiming to offer more appropriate and stimulating situations for contemporary artistic production;
• To seek exemplarity in environmental terms, both in the construction and operation of the building, pursuing silver LEED Certification while providing high international standards of environmental control in the exhibition spaces and technical reserves of the museum’s collection and documentation center.