1 Mariam Maged - Louvre Abu Dhabi

Location:

Abu Dhabi Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Architecture department History 4 Assignment 1 Fall 2019

Architect: Ateliers Jean Nouvel Location: Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Area: 97000.0 m2 Function: Museums & Exhibit Project year: 2017

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Concept: . Architect Jean Nouvel stated: “This micro-city requires a microclimate that would give the visitor a feeling of entering a different world. The building is covered with a large dome, a form common to all civilizations. This one is made of a web of different patterns interlaced into a translucent ceiling which lets a diffuse, magical light come through in the best tradition of great Arabian architecture.�

Function: The Louvre Abu Dhabi is a new classical arts museum in the United Arab Emirates . this giant dome structure performs environmental, aesthetic, and structural functions. •

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Environmentally, it provides shade and cooler temperatures to the outdoor public spaces connecting the multiple buildings of the museum village.

Aesthetically, it functions as an external open-air canopy, filtering the natural light of the sun and creating a dramatic and constantly transforming lighting effect beneath the dome.

Challenges:

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Building a mini-city in the middle of the water was challenging because the need of strong prevention from water and salt.

Thus the Louvre Abu Dhabi provides a case study for a new concurrent design approach to multiconstraint geometric problems in architecture.

Architectural drawings:

LAYOUT:

Zoning- Program: three areas: plaza, galleries having roof lights, and other buildings and water 2% to 8% over the “natural lighting� areas (galleries), and from 0.1% to 1% over the protected areas (plaza, water surface, and other buildings).

In total, 55 individual buildings, including 23 galleries.

Sun and wind direction:

W-S

ELEVATIONS

E

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W-N

SECTION

Ventilation:

SECTIONS:

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Lightening:

Natural lighting: Below the canopy, the design vision calls for a “rain of light:� visible rays of light and dynamic light patterns on the plaza and walls.

The inverse natural lighting model

The facades : are made up of 3,900 panels of ultra-high performance fiber concrete (UHPC).

Construction data and structure: •

The brief required a design for buildability, accessibility and durability over a 100 year lifetime.

metal structure consisting of non-standard stainless-steel nodes, laser-cut out of flat metal sheets, and lathe-manufactured aluminum bars

The dome consists of eight different layers: four outer layers clad in stainless steel and four inner layers clad in aluminum separated by a steel frame five meters high.

Interior:

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Very artistic design by the way they used structure and light and archetypal elements.

Arabian architecture is clear without becoming a flat translation, the distribution of old cities is clear in the layout.

Creative ways of solving geological and climate problems(water-sun-heat).

Creating a new view of the city keeping the tradition and culture of the region , was the main concept of this project.

References: Concurrent Geometric, Structural and Environmental Design: Louvre Abu Dhabi report https://www.louvreabudhabi.ae/ Archdaily