Museum of the Future
- Entered by: Buro Happold
- Client: Dubai Future Foundation
- Developer: North25
- Lead design consultant: Buro Happold
- Architect: Rice Perry Ellis, Killa Design
- Project management: Matthews Southwest
- Cost consultant: AECOM
- Main contractor: BAM Higgs & Hill
- Sub-contractor: Eversendai, Affan
The Museum of the Future is Dubai’s newest landmark. The building both exhibits and symbolises the future in equal measure, with its breathtaking stainless steel façade expressing a poem script written by HH Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, describing his vision for the future of Dubai, with the museum as an incubator of ideas and a catalyst for innovation.
With that theme in mind, the full design and construction team needed to rapidly upskill, re-tool, change thinking and innovate. In 2015, when words like ‘digital’, ‘digital twinning’ and the wider use of ‘BIM’ were in their infancy, the project was already prototyping these very principles, demanding the team develop new design and construction technologies across the BIM spectrum, pushing and defining our industry’s transition to working in a digital space.
Buro Happold translated this vision for a building into viable buildable solutions through pioneering use of technology to realise the museum’s shape, its superstructure, façade and MEP systems, and all the while delivering ‘an exhibition facility’ that is state-of-the-art, safe to build, clever in use and conscious of its energy demand for a lifetime as the new icon in Dubai.
