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Groundbreaking Museum of the Future in Dubai Opens Doors to Visitors
With its floating form, windows in Arabic calligraphy, and space-age finish, Dubai’s Museum of the Future might be the most complex building ever built.
Dubai’s Museum of the Future, now open, is a radical departure from the traditional skyscraper form. Courtesy of Viktor Bondar, Dreamstime.com.
Dubai’s Museum of the Future is now open to visitors.
The museum’s groundbreaking shape was inspired by its mission to become an incubator for innovation and invention.
By using 3D models, architects and engineers were able to collaborate and work through potential roadblocks during the design process.
Exhibits will transport visitors to the distant future of 2071, and immersive play environments will encourage young learners to become future thinkers.
Dubai is rightly famous for its modern glass-and-steel skyscrapers, such as the unparalleled Burj Khalifa. Yet no matter how sleek and tall you make it, a skyscraper is still a traditional building form, with its familiar repetitions and verticality. Dubai’s new Museum of the Future, however, takes a groundbreaking approach to architecture and what it means to be a museum.
While there are certainly taller and more expansive buildings, this incredible feat of design, engineering, and construction will rank as one of the most complicated projects ever built. “A building with this complexity has never been done, not with this shape of the facade and the superstructure,” says Derek Bourke, BIM manager for construction firm WME.
Designed by Killa Design and opened on Feb. 22, 2022, the Museum of the Future is torus shaped, a gleaming silver oval with an open center. The building looks almost like an eye keeping watch over this growing city, the largest in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Parametric Design Reflects Museum’s Mission
Art and metaphor were driving concepts in the museum design: The idea for the museum stemmed from His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, and it is intended to be an incubator for innovation and invention. (Its motto: “See the future, create the future.”) Announced in 2015, it’s not a typical museum—as in a repository of artifacts—but an active place to be filled with innovation facilities and design studios, a repository for ideas not yet conceived. It was important that the design be emblematic of the mission of the Dubai Future Foundation—a dazzling combination of art, engineering, and construction.
“The form started to originate through the design of a building that, first of all, looked futuristic; however, I came to understand that the client appreciated the sense of feng shui,” says principal Shaun Killa, who conceived the building’s revolutionary form. In feng shui, a round shape represents both the fertile fields of earth and the limitless imagination of the sky above—therefore, the past, present, and future. While the building would evolve with exhibits of the future of education, health care, smart cities, transportation, government services, and more for the next five or, perhaps, 10 years, the void in the center of the building represents the unknown, according to Killa: “People who seek what we don’t know are the inventors and discoverers for the future.”
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