assyut historical narrative museum

Idea projektu

The city of Assiut is located in one of the governorates in the Arab Republic of Egypt and lacks foreign tourism. It also lacks the presence of a national museum in the governorate. The location was chosen based on several factors, the first of which was that it be outside the unplanned area of ​​the city, and secondly that it be on the Nile Front to be a nucleus for improving the city’s visual identity and to be its landmark. It is easy for the museum to attract Nile ships heading from Cairo to Aswan, so the basic concept was to make the museum the Landmark of Zamzamzriyal, which expresses the identity of the lost city and its being a faithful guardian of Egypt throughout the ages.The shape of the building was inspired to resemble the pointed rocks of a land that opens up to reveal the treasures and history within it In an attempt to rely on design in the fourth dimension to control the visitor’s complete experience and how he feels the passage of time In order to reduce time and the sensation of it, the experience is changed and the number of senses used increases to consolidate the information and increase concentration It creates visual contact between the different stages of the display, which provides excitement for the visitor during the experience and achieves connection between time in its different stages.

Popis projektu

Assiut National Museum is located on Bani Mer Island, north of the center and city of Assiut. The museum talks about several historical eras and how Assiut was a guardian throughout the ages.The project consists of a main dock, then a plaza that allows access to the main museum plaza or to the rest of the island, which is planned to be a comprehensive cultural island. Then it moves to the main museum plaza, and then moves through three plazas and six main exhibition halls. Each hall talks about a specific time period and tells the story of Through the various influences and artifacts, how is Assiut Harith considered, whether culturally, commercially, or a guardian in the actual sense of civilization and the Holy Family? The smooth transition between the halls is interspersed with several pauses in order to achieve control over the fourth dimension. It also provides diversity and balance between the internal and external display to provide a distinctive experience for the visitor, as well as the course of the display. The main part is some resting points represented in several cafes, and then the last part of the display, which is dedicated to temporary external art exhibitions. The second part of the museum represents the service and is divided into two parts, a part for the museum’s regular service and a special part for laboratories, workshops, collectibles stores, bazaars, and others.

Technické informace

The project was composed of three main walls of reinforced concrete at a high height to provide self-shade and made them the main structural structure. Then, they were made double and the internal space between them was used for display, as it was also an environmental solution to reduce the internal temperature. The antiques were designed to suit all groups, ages, and people with special needs, including For the blind, this is done by placing a description of the halls in Braille on each main area and providing special effects that help them imagine the scene using the other senses. The health and safety and escape code has also been adhered to by placing escape points and cutting off the journey every appropriate distance in cases of emergency.

Nessma Waleed

Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University in Alexandria

Egypt

Architektura

Projekt odevzdán

15. 07. 2024

Tag

Architektura Exhibition Center Memorial Observation Tower Scuplture Other Public spaces Interior

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assyut historical narrative museum

In this project, the positive points that exist, and in my opinion, were a good perspective, are firstly, you have considered views from various distances to your project, meaning that the design of your project's skyline was somewhat based on the observer's position and distances. This was good. Another good aspect was the interaction with the architectural space. Another issue was your project's zoning, where the project's formation platform was divided into three sections based on three walls with triangular angles. Now, why three sections and why the angles are shaped this way, and whether an alternative state could have been envisioned for it or not (of course, all of this goes back to your project's formal concept, which I haven't understood up to this point). I currently have no discussion about this. However, what happened to the project afterward is debatable. The geometry of these three walls that distinctly defined the project is not seen at all in the continuation of the work. They only provided us with three extensions where a series of cubic volumes with 90-degree angles were formed along these extensions. For instance, when I look at various project sections (C_C / D_D) and Isometric plans, your dominant design geometry does not match the primary geometry of these three walls, which you highlighted as the organizational feature of this project. Moreover, regarding the diagram you showed about the extension of viewpoints of the project's observers in different spatial experience positions as a section diagram in the visual contact area, when I saw these diagrams, it seemed more to me like dealing with a hypertext three-dimensional spatial organization flow. But later, I saw that the formation of your project's various spaces alongside each other was based more on a classical structure than a hypertext structure. In designing a project, you need to have a spatial organization concept upon which your entire project should be based, be it the organizational structure of volumes, the site, or even the railings that you implement for your project's platforms.
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Morteza Asghari Vahed

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