There are no pillars in a 77-meter-high building? Dubai spends 900 million to build a new "world landmark"

"The most complex building in the world."

"The greatest invention in the world today."

"A rare algorithm-driven architecture in the world."

Can you believe that these four sentences of hit the floor are about the same building?

This building comes from Dubai, which is rich in oil. Burj Dubai, the world's tallest man-made building, and Palm Island, the world's largest man-made island, are classic works of this magical city in the Middle East. Recently, Dubai has added a new landmark-the Museum of the Future.

A charming "Phoenix Eye" and "Museum of the Future" are the most beautiful buildings on earth! Dubai Chief sheikh mohamed commented on this Dubai building that he is proud of. Seeing its true colors, I really have to boast that it is really beautiful!

The building area is 30,000 square meters, and the stainless steel facade17,000 square meters. The building is 77 meters high and has seven floors, with a cost of 500 million dirhams, or about 900 million RMB. The huge floor space and astronomical investment are indeed a seemingly odd appearance.

The museum of the future is like an oval hollow ring standing on a green mound. Green represents the vibrant earth, the oval building standing on it represents human strength, and the empty part in the middle of the whole building symbolizes the unknown future.

The wonderful appearance of the whole museum caters to the designer's original design intention, seeing the future and changing it.

The unique oval shape and the unknown tension brought by the "hole" make the whole museum look like a phoenix eye, watching the rapid development of this magical city.

However, compared with the unique appearance, the strange patterns on the architectural skin are more eye-catching. The seemingly chaotic geometric patterns, connected in series, are actually a complete Arabic poem.

A beautiful poem written by His Highness Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, looks forward to the future of Dubai.

This cursive Arabic poem is composed of 1024 flame-retardant composite board made of 3D printing technology.

Sticking on the silver stainless steel skin of the museum, this coincidental beauty is hard to describe in words.

More importantly, these patterns are not just decorations. They also play an important role as windows of museums. During the day, mottled sunlight can be projected into the room at will through these windows.

At night, these windows are illuminated by LED lights with a total length of 14 km. The effect is shocking and dramatic!

This unique way of light processing has brought an extremely unexpected aesthetic effect, which can be said to be the perfect combination of art and function.

In fact, before the "Museum of the Future" was officially opened, it was always praised as an architectural miracle and won the praise of the whole world.

Last July, it was named 14 as one of the most beautiful museums on earth in the list of world museums selected by National Geographic magazine.

Such a high reputation, of course, can not be just because of its unique shape.

In fact, as early as the beginning of the design, Killa Design Studio and Buro Happold, who are responsible for the design of the "Museum of the Future", have left their brave words. Let this museum become "the most advanced building in the world".

If the Burj Khalifa and Palm Island mentioned above are all architectural wonders that Dubai spent money on. So this time is different. The future museum can be said to have touched the technical ceiling of human beings.

In order to complete this epoch-making design, designers independently developed a new parametric modeling tool for it. With the help of this tool, after repeated simulations, we finally found the possibility of creating the unique appearance and shape of the original design.

However, do you think that as soon as the building model comes out, everything will be over? But this is really just the beginning.

You should know that this is a seven-story building, and the geometric structure of each floor and the incision of each calligraphy panel on the skin are completely different. And each structure and each panel need to be formed and manufactured separately.

The 1024 Arabic panel on the skin alone has a maximum width of 3 meters and a height of 9 meters. The most complicated panel needs to be bent in two directions, so that at most 6 panels can be made in one day.

The complexity of the whole process can be imagined. Because the model is beautifully calculated by computer, once the building structure deviates by one centimeter or 1 degree, the consequences are unimaginable.

In addition, because the Arabic characters on the building surface are 2D, if they are poured on the 3D building surface, the characters will naturally deform. Want to be more beautiful, need to keep trying, time-consuming and laborious.

It is said that designers and plate suppliers have finally determined the current structural design scheme after a whole year of repeated experiments. So with the blessing of science and technology and the unremitting efforts of all parties, people have built such an unprecedented "overhead" building on the absolute premise of giving up the pillars.

Without those unsightly columns, the interior space of the future museum has been greatly expanded and abnormally opened.

Since the first sketch of the future museum, sustainable development has been driving its design. Through the design, the passive storage of solar energy is realized, the energy consumption and water consumption in the building are reduced, and a series of water and energy recovery schemes are designed. There is even a huge off-site solar power generation facility on the roof.

The Future Museum suddenly built a 4000 MW solar energy supply system. It's not a piece of cake to provide energy for the whole museum.

Such a perfect renewable energy utilization design has also made the future museum get the highest evaluation of global green buildings, and the "LEED" platinum certification has become the real first in the Middle East.

If you think that the "Future Museum" is famous all over the world only because of its novel appearance and superb construction technology, then you are wrong. This museum can be said to be both internal and external.

The indoor space on the seventh floor is rich and colorful, and each floor has a completely different exhibition theme. It brings people a variety of exhibition experiences.

Walking into this "future museum", you can not only feel the beautiful light and shadow experience under the mapping of Arabic poetry, but also feel the shock brought by knowledge.

Immersive VR display, rare outer space and bioengineering.

You can even find a science museum for children and encourage them to explore the future.

Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg, as a unique incubator for innovative design in Dubai and even the world in the future.

In the future museum, we can see more future technologies and many future ideas and ideas in other fields.

No matter its appearance, meaning or technology, Dubai's "Future Museum" can afford the word "future".

On February 22, 2022, the Future Museum opened to the public.

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