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حاکم ابوظبی،فاستر و گروهش را مأمور ساخت موزه ملی امارات کرد.موزه ای که درجزیره سادیات باانگیزه معرفی فرهنگ،آداب وسنن وتغییرات اقتصادی امارات نوین ساخته خواهدشد.این سازه دارای فضاهای بهینه ونوگرایانه ای می باشد که باعناصرسنتی وفرهنگ عربی درآمیخته است.ودریک محوطه طبیعی فضای سبز قرار می گیرد.موزه برروی یک تپه واقع شده که برفرازآن پنج برج قراردارد و ورودی آن درزیرتپه می باشد.این باعث شده که برج هامانند یک دودکش تبادل حرارتی عمل کنند وهوای تازه راجایگزین کند،هوایی که ازمجراهای زیرزمینی گذشته وخنک می شود. فرو رفتگی بخش مرکزی موزه نیزبه مثابه لنگریست که تعادل پنج بال فوقانی راحفظ می کند.فاستر کاربر روی این پروژه راشانسی بزرگ برای خود می داند.

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Zayed National Museum

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2007

The Zayed National Museum will form part of the emerging Saadiyat Island Cultural District. Its design draws on the landscape and culture of the Emirates and the galleries are housed within five feather-like forms, which function as solar thermal towers and contribute to a highly progressive environmental strategy

Conceived as a monument and memorial to the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding president of the UAE, the Zayed National Museum will be the centrepiece of the Saadiyat Island Cultural District and will showcase the history, culture and, more recently, the social and economic transformation of the Emirates. Architecturally, the aim has been to combine a highly efficient, contemporary form with elements of traditional Arabic design and hospitality to create a museum that is sustainable, welcoming and culturally of its place. Celebrating Sheikh Zayed’s legacy and love of nature, the museum is set within a landscaped garden, based on a timeline of his life

The display spaces are housed within a man-made, landscaped mound and the galleries are placed at the bases of five lightweight steel structures, sculpted aerodynamically to work like the feathers of a bird’s wing – a deliberate analogy with Sheikh Zayed’s love of falconry. The solar thermal towers heat up and act as thermal chimneys to draw cooling air currents naturally through the museum. Fresh air is captured at low level and drawn through buried ground-cooling pipes and then released into the museum’s lobby. The heat at the top of the towers works to draw the air up vertically through the galleries due to the thermal stack effect. Air vents open at the top of the wing-shaped towers taking advantage of the negative pressure on the lee of the wing profile to draw the hot air out

Balancing the lightweight steel structures with a more monumental interior experience, the galleries are anchored by a dramatic top-lit central lobby, which is dug into the earth to exploit its thermal properties and brings together shops, cafes, an auditorium and informal venues for performances of poetry and dance. Throughout, the treatment of light and shade draws on a tradition of discreet, carefully positioned openings, which capture and direct the region’s intense sunlight to illuminate and animate these interior spaces. Objects are displayed within niches and on stone plinths that rise seamlessly from the floor

منبع : وب سایت نرمن فاستر

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