{"id":791,"date":"2014-06-17T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/qatarurbanism\/?page_id=791"},"modified":"2014-06-17T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:32:15","slug":"abu-dhabi-the-louvre-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/qatarurbanism\/other-stuff\/abu-dhabi-the-louvre-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi – The Louvre Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Courtesy of Ateliers Jean Nouvel<\/p>\n

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The Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum, designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, aims at creating a welcoming world which associates lights and shadows as well as shimmers and calm places in a serene atmosphere. Its objective is to belong to its country, to its history, to its geography, avoiding being either a dull translation of this reality or a pleonasm meaning boredom and convention. It also aims at emphasizing the fascination generated by rare encounters. More images and architects\u2019 description after the break.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Ateliers Jean Nouvel<\/p>\n

Every climate likes exceptions. Warmer when the weather is cold, cooler in the tropics. Men have a bad resistance to thermal shocks, as do works of art. The Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum was influenced by such basic observations. It is rather unusual to find a built archipelago in the sea; it is even more uncommon to see that it is protected by a parasol flooded with a rain of lights.<\/p>\n

It is not evident to access a museum by boat, or to find pontoons to reach it on foot from the coast, before being welcomed like a much-awaited visitor willing to see unique collections, to consult books in the tempting bookstores, or to stay longer and enjoy the teas, coffees, and local gastronomy. It is both a calm and complex place which clearly stands out in a series of museums that make a point of maintaining their differences and their authenticities.
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The project is based on one of the major symbols of Arabic architecture: the Cupola. But here, it is a modern proposal made evident by its obvious gap with tradition. The dome is doubled and flat with a 180-meter diameter, offering a perfect luminous geometry drilled in a more random weaved material which creates a shadow punctuated with sun bursts. It shines in the sun of Abu Dhabi. At night, the protected landscape turns into a haven of light under a star-spangled cupola.<\/p>\n

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The Louvre Abu Dhabi becomes the final destination of an urban promenade, a garden on the coast, and a fresh refuge. A shelter of light in the daytime, it aesthetically takes on at night its function of sanctuary for the most valuable works of art.<\/p>\n

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