Constellations Thesis Book by Nesrin Zidan

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Architect’s Vision
The National Museum is dedicated to the history of Qatar. Symbolically, its
architecture evokes the desert, its silent and eternal dimension, but also the spirit
of modernity and daring that have come along and shaken up what seemed unshakeable.
So, it’s the contradictions in that history that I’ve sought to evoke here.
As you walk through the different volumes, you never know what’s
coming next in terms of the architecture. The idea was to create contrasts,
spring surprises. You might, for instance, go from one room
closed-off pretty high up by a slanting disk to another room with a
much lower intersection. This produces something dynamic, tension.
Fig. 5.40. Circulation Concept sketch