Biomuseo frank gehry furniture
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Biomuseo / Gehry Partners
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Text description provided by the architects. The project comprises three main elements: the museum building, the exhibition design and the surrounding park.
At the heart of the project is a public outdoor atrium covered by colorful metal canopies designed to protect visitors from frequent wind-driven rains. Surrounding the central atrium are unticketed public areas, including the museum store, a café and a temporary exhibition space, as well as the two main ticketed exhibition wings of the building. The atrium level, elevated one floor above grade, allows for extended views to the Canal and city, in addition to protecting the outdoor exhibition space below, which connects the two exhibition wings.
The exhibition design, conceived collaboratively with Bruce Mau Design, educates visitors about the emergence of the Isthmus of Panamá and its role in shaping our natural environment. Inside the eight galleries are stories that introduce visitors to the concept of biodiversity, immerse them in the environments of Panamá and describe the geological and natural history. The exhibitions also convey how these natural forces have affected humans a
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Frank Gehry’s Biomuseo
Frank Gehry marks his first project in Latin America with a multicoloured collision of canopies on the banks of the Panama Canal
After a grinding construction process lasting over a decade, the final parts of the Biomuseo, designed by Frank Gehry, are coming together. This riotous crash of multicoloured panels sits on the edge of the Amador Causeway, a former US military site on the outskirts of Panama City, with a prime view over the southern entrance to the Panama Canal. An attempt to put Panama City on the architectural map, it is the first Latin American building designed by the octogenarian architect and represents a more tropical version of his signature design language.
The building is what used to be called a natural history museum, and incorporates various galleries with exhibitions relating to the biodiversity of the Isthmus of Panama, which fully emerged from the ocean 3 million years ago. This geological event created a bridge between the American continents, altered the climate of the Atlantic and Pacific regions, and thus influenced the evolutionary history of the whole planet. The eight galleries are generally orthogonal and useful, with the exhibitions designed by Bruce Mau, and they are arranged around a central open atrium. The us