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Desert museum gets wings to keep it cool
Ferrari Press Agency
Museum 1
Ref 15929
12/06/2024
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Pictures must credit: Foster + Partners
A new museum has a cool feature— five wings designed to keep the temperature inside down.
The building is the Zayed National Museum in the United Arab Emirates.
The wing like additions are five lightweight steel structures, sculpted aerodynamically to act as solar thermal towers.
They range in height from 83 metres to 123 metres
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.
Fresh air is also captured at low level and drawn through buried ground-cooling pipes and then released into the museum’s lobby.
Balancing the lightweight steel structures with a more monumental interior experience, pod-shaped galleries are suspended over a dramatic top-lit central lobby.
This is dug into the earth to exploit its thermal properties and brings together shops, cafes and informal venues for performances of poetry and dance.
OPS: Render of the winged Zayed National Museum in the United Arab Emirates.
Picture supplied by Ferrari
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14 Iunie 2024 |
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