THE SPACE AND SCIENCE OASIS MUSEUM
Client: Riyadh Development Authority
Location: Al-Riyadh – Saudi Arabia
Services Provided: Design Competition, Design
Total Built-up Area: 104,000 sq.m
Construction Cost: US $ 200,000,000
Starting Date: 1989
Completion Date: 1991
About
THE PROJECT
In collaboration with Dr. Abdel Halim Ibrahim from the Community Design Collaboration in Cairo, The Space and Science Oasis Museum has won the first prize in an international design competition and was inspired in an attempt to symbolize Muslims’ contribution in Astrology in the past, and to address the critical role of the cosmological changes in using technology within the development of the traditional architecture.
Aiming to express the relationship of the physical appearance of the architectural building with the planetary movements, the museum galleries are organized as a circle around a large elevated sphere that is placed on a triangular pedestal reminiscent of the Mogul sundials, which were built in India in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.