Owner: Qatar Museums Authority
Project Type: Leisure & Entertainment
Estimated Value: $ 435 million
Project Start Date: 2010
Estimated Completion: 2016
Estimated Area: 150000 sq m Land Area, 40000 sq m Built Up Area
Status: Under execution
Location: Doha, Qatar
Contractors:
Astad Project Management (PMC)
Hill International (Middle East) Limited (CMS)
Jean Nouvel (Architect)
Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company (MEP and Construction)
The Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) aims to develop a new National Museum in Doha in Qatar. The construction of this project is well underway and is expected to be completed in 2016.
The museum will be built on 2 plots that spreads over an area of 150,000 sq m and consists of a 220-seat auditorium, a 70-seat food forum / TV studio, 2 cafés, museum galleries, restaurants, collection storage, children activity center and a library. The project will be the first monument seen by travelers arriving from the airport. The museum will comprise a series of interlocking discs of varying dimensions and curvatures, which will form walls, ceilings, floors and terraces. Staff facilities include a heritage research center, restoration laboratories, staff offices and collection processing and storage areas. The Museum will be surrounded by landscaped park. Each disc will be made of a steel truss structure clad in glass-reinforced concrete and the voids between discs will be glazed. Embodying the pride and traditions of Qatar’s people while offering international visitors a dialogue about rapid change and modernization, the National Museum of Qatar will be the setting for a program in which entire walls become cinematic displays, “sonorous cocoons”, shelter oral-history presentations and hand-held mobile devices guide visitors through thematic displays of the collection’s treasures.
Though built around an historic structure, the Fariq Al Salatah Palace, which had served as a museum of heritage since 1975, the National Museum of Qatar is conceived and designed as a thoroughly new institution, in keeping with the high aspirations that animate QMA. Jean Nouvel’s design manifests both the active, dynamic aspect of the Museum’s program and its crystallization of the Qatari identity, in a building that, like a desert rose, appears to grow out of the ground and be one with it. In its organization, the building suggests the image of a caravanserai—the traditional enclosed resting place that supported the flow of commerce, information and people across desert trade routes—and so gives concrete expression to the identity of a nation in movement.
Thermal buffer zones within the disk cavities will reduce cooling loads, while the deep overhangs of the disks will create cool, shady areas for outdoor promenades and protect the interior from light and heat. Steel and concrete, the main materials of the building, will be locally sourced and/or fabricated. Through these and other sustainability measures, the Museum is working to achieve a USGBC LEED Silver rating.
The Museum’s gardens are specifically designed for the intense climate of Qatar. Plantings will include native grasses and indigenous plants, such as pomegranate trees, date palms, herbs and the Sidra tree, the national tree of Qatar. Landscaping will feature sand dunes and stepped garden architecture to create sitting areas and spaces for the Museum’s programs of tours and garden lectures.
Jean Nouvel is the architect, Astad is the PMC, Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company are the MEP and Construction contractors, Qatar Petroleum are the developers and Hill International is the CMS consultant. SCOPE OF WORK Construction of a 150,000 sq m museum including: - 220-seat auditorium
- 70-seat food forum / TV studio
- 2 cafés
- Restaurants
- Museum galleries,
- Collection storage
- Children activity center
- A library.
- Heritage research center
- Restoration laboratories
- Staff offices
- Collection processing and storage areas
- Various native grasses and trees
COMPANIES & PROJECT PERSONNEL *Owner: Qatar Museums Authority
Address: Qatar Museums Authority Tower, Al Meena Street, PO Box 2777, Qatar, Doha
Tel: +974 452-5555
Fax: +974 452-5556
Email: info@qma.org.qa
Website: www.qma.com.qa *Developers: Qatar Petroleum
Address: Qatar Petroleum Building, Al Dafna Area, PO Box 3212, Doha, Qatar
Tel: +974 4449-1449
Fax: +974 4483-1125
Email: webmaster@qp.com.qa
Website: www.qp.com.qa
Contact name: Mr. Hamad Salah Al-Baker
Contact position: PR Manager
Tel: (974) 4013-3900
Email: h_albaker@qp.com.qa
*PMC Consultant: Astad Project Management
Address: 1st Floor Al Dana Tower, Diplomatic Area, PO Box 23242, Qatar
Tel: +974 4409-6060
Fax: +974 4429-3733
Email: info@astad.qa
Website: www.astad.qa Contact Name: Jarome Lim
Position: Assistant Project Manager
Tel: +974 4409-6065
*CMS Consultant: Hill International (Middle East) Limited
Address: Al Jaber Tower, 4th Floor, Museum Road, P O Box 21835, Qatar, Doha
Tel: +974 4435-8381
Fax: +974 4435-8343
Website: www.hillintl.com
*Architect: Jean Nouvel
Address: 10 Cite d'Angouleme, Paris 75100, France
Tel: +33 1-4923-8383
Fax: +33 1-4317-8110
Email: presse@jeannouvel.fr
Website: www.jeannouvel.com *MEP / Construction Contractor: Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company
Address: P O Box 24466, Doha, Qatar
Tel: +974 4455-0668
Fax: +974 4467-8856
Website: eng.hdec.co.kr *Contact Name: Sang Bok Lee
Position: Project Manager
Tel: +974 4437-7360
Email: sblee@hdec.co.kr
TIMELINE February 2015 - Construction was ongoing. September 18th 2011 - Construction started. September 4th 2011 - Construction contract awarded to Hyundai Engineering and Construction. May 22nd 2011 - Bids submitted for the main construction contract. March 2011 - ITB for the construction contract issued. June 2010 - 8 contractors prequalified.