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MUSEUM OF THE FUTURE

Showcasing A Dynamic Experience to the New Era
Abstract

The Museum will be a haven of tolerance, welcoming a wide range of cultural,

intellectual, social, and spiritual perspectives which will also be a place of learning,
where everyone can collaborate with us in exploring the difficulties and possibilities
shaping our times, and in finding ways to construct a better future. The proposed
Museum combines exhibition, immersive theatre, and themed attraction elements,
welcoming every person to look beyond the present to the conceivable. It will also
feature several floors dedicated to different types of activities. Three levels of
immersive installations will explore the potential futures of space resource
development, ecosystems and biotechnology, and health, wellness, and spirituality.
Another level will highlight near-future technology that will revolutionize the global
community by tackling issues like health, water, food, transportation, and energy.
The last floor will be dedicated to youngsters, who will be free to explore and solve
obstacles in their own unique way in order to become our "future heroes."

Transformative Technology

Technology has the ability to revolutionize and alter our way of life. It may
address many of the environmental, cultural, social, and political crises that
characterize our day, as well as overcoming obstacles to lead the globe to a more
hopeful and constructive future. The Museum will be having an ever-changing
display of ideas that have the potential to revolutionize our world. This exhibition,
created in conjunction, examines how designers, researchers, and organizations are
reacting to today's most pressing concerns.

A typical disjunctive method to adding to or around historic architecture would

involve clearly distinguishing the new parts from the old. This conjunctive one
embraces the existing structure and significantly expands on it. The design entails
tripling the current floor area by winding the outward-wrapping spiral that forms the
gallery core up even higher and broader. The prior roof would be dismantled and
reattached to the new top. Critics will point out that, while the form is kept, the
proportions are taken for a loop, and the inner cone is tapered down to a little point.

The cylindrical structure represents

mankind; the green elevation on
which it is situated represents the
earth; and the void it occupies
represents the unforeseen future. As
you take a step forward, the low-
ceiling area opens into the rotunda,
drawing your gaze up to the skylight,
or oculus, 96 feet above you. The
artworks are generally hidden. You must first experience the structure itself before
you can go to them. Here, we get a sense of Wright's idea for the museum space: a
spiral-ramped structure capped by a big skylight. The Museum's main rotunda is its
beating heart. It's nearly like a town square. The exterior walls are climbed via a
quarter-mile long concrete ramps. Visitors on the ramps are aware of people in other
sections of the museum as well as the art. On a busy day, you'll notice a steady
stream of people traveling up these ramps to view the displays.

The Story of the Future

To create an immersive theatre experience, a variety of technologies, including

augmented reality and virtual reality, will be utilized to project the visitor ahead into
the future. This will not be a museum where everything is displayed in cases with
labels next to them. Instead, there will be no labels in many of the major galleries. It
will be a truly immersive experience that involves the visitor as a vital contributor to
the experience rather than as a passive observer of someone else effort. The
Museum will be intended to provide an optimistic picture of the future as a
counterweight to what he sees as the entertainment industry's often negative
attitude. This will also aim to demonstrate how individuals may respond creatively to
obstacles while being realistic about the challenges that lie ahead. One floor will
include anticipated near-future devices, but the emphasis will remain on technology
that will serve mankind, whether by assisting in feeding the planet, meeting our water
demands, or making transportation more sustainable.

The exhibitions inside

the Museum must be as
impactful as, if not more
so than, the building
that will house them.
Nonetheless, the
museum will serve as
an illustration of how a
modern structure should
function. Because of its
distinctive design, everything has been pre-modeled, analyzed, and optimized, from
fire evacuation and smoke extraction tactics to exterior cleaning. The width of
corridors, number of elevators, design of the restrooms, and layout of the halls were
all utilized to identify how to cut queue times and assist flow with the width of
corridors, number of lifts, design of the bathrooms, and layout of the whole building.
And all of the data collected throughout the design and building phases will be used
to guide the museum's management and upkeep.

It is everything we have been discussing about, such as sustainability, a creative and

integrated structure, and optimized solutions. These are not just about lowering the
client's costs, but also about how the building operates in terms of safety, health, and
welfare. Everything we've ever learned about construction has altered as a result of
this single endeavor. We couldn't have handled the problems that arose as a result
of the form otherwise. It has revolutionized the way we operate, which is astounding
for the industry going ahead.

Arcologies in the Near Future

In science fiction, enclosed cities have become a narrative shorthand for

futuristic populations. They are self-contained habitats that include all necessary
infrastructure such as energy generation, food production, waste management, and
water. The notion of arcology - a portmanteau phrase combining architecture and
ecology -, blends construction with ecological philosophies. But could we truly
construct an arcology? To support the weight of such a skyscraper, immense
foundations would be required. Within reason, you may construct practically
anything. The loadings would be enormous, but nothing is impossible. It will just cost
extra to construct the foundations.

The influence of wind is the bigger difficulty posed by a building's height. Wind
loading is unimportant for a conventional house, but huge skyscrapers, such as
Dubai's Burj Khalifa, must incorporate wind flow and the associated vortices. A
vortex is created when the wind strikes the surface of a structure, generating a
region of low pressure on the other side and then spinning around to fill it. During
high winds, this vortex action causes high-rise structures to sway.

 One way to mitigate vortexes is to change the shape of the building as it goes up
Swaying can cause everything from rippling beverages to the structure
collapse. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington fell in 1940 as a result of
severe winds causing progressively high frequency oscillations (rapid motions) on
the bridge, tearing it apart. The impacts of vortices can be reduced by utilizing a
tuned mass damper (a device that reduces vibrations) and constructing the structure
to break the wind flow. One method for reducing vortexes is to modify the form of the
structure as it rises. If you don't adjust the design of the structure, the vortex will
continue to grow and cause waves of movement. They synchronise with the
structure of the building and cause progressive collapse. Therefore, rather than
building an arcology as a shear-walled structure, it is more likely that it would be built
to disrupt windflow, such as by employing a stepped construction, like ancient
MesoAmerican structures. Another key challenge is energy generation. Renewable
energy technologies, like solar panels and wind turbines, could be easily mounted on
the exterior of an arcology, but are unlikely to provide a complete power solution on
their own. As they would only be effective at certain times, back-up power generation
and energy storage systems will be needed for when there is a shortfall.

Nuclear reactors are a possible alternative energy generation solution. Small

modular reactors (SMRs), miniaturised factory-built versions of advanced nuclear
reactors, are compact and efficient energy sources. SMRs claim some benefits over
large reactors, in terms of enhanced safety and prevention of proliferation of nuclear
materials. However, as with all fission reactors, the processing and storage of
nuclear waste is a challenge. Alternatively, fusion reactors would be safer and
provide cleaner forms of energy, however current designs are neither compact (one,
Iter, is expected to weigh 23,000 tons) nor financially viable, as none have yet
produced more energy than they use. Will the ability to access nature and light
establish a class divide within these futuristic settlements?
A future for high-rise buildings

Continuously extending cities horizontally by constructing on new territory is

not endlessly viable. This strengthens the case for building vertical cities and rising
upwards. Cities are rapidly expanding, from one to ten million people. They can't go
horizontal because it's unsustainable in terms of land consumption and the energy
required to build and operate a horizontal city; they'll go vertical.

Instead of separate tower blocks, buildings might be linked together by land

bridges, providing green areas between them. However, building upwards with a
network of land bridges risks obscuring the lower levels, making the higher levels
more desirable, and eventually leading to a structured hierarchical system. As the
effects of climate change become more apparent, the materials used to construct
cities may change. Carbon emissions from the cement industry exceed those from
aircraft. Mass timber, an engineered product made from stacked panels of wood
that are linked together, might be an alternative construction material. The amount of
energy required to manufacture mass lumber is a fraction of that required to
manufacture the same components in steel or concrete. Although the construction of
an arcology is theoretically possible, at least from a structural standpoint, it would
necessitate inventive engineering to ensure the necessary energy generation, food
production, and waste reclamation systems are sustainable. Critics assert that
arcologies are unlikely to become commercially viable in the foreseeable future.
There is also the notion that permanently living within such enclosed region would be
unpleasant, however it is reassuring to know that it is conceivable in the event that
the outside world became uninhabitable. We shuld never claim that something
cannot be constructed; nonetheless, there must be a vision and a need for it.

CAN EXHIBITION DESIGN INSPIRE MORE PROACTIVE RESPONSES TO THE

CLIMATE CRISIS?

As the general public is bombarded with climate catastrophe data and Eco-
anxiety grows, numerous cultural institutions are avoiding the doomsday scenario
with exhibitions that not only empower individuals but also establish an innovative
approach to sustainable exhibition design.

The enormity of the climate catastrophe is widely recognized, and its severity is
frequently framed by statistics and data. According to the authors of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s latest climate report, 'limiting
warming to around 1.5°C requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before
2025 at the latest, and be reduced by 43% by 2030.' Such data, while undoubtedly
necessary in conveying the need for critical action, can feel distant, impersonal, and
difficult to grasp, let alone act upon. According to research, the tone with which
climate information is delivered has the capacity to either paralyze or empower its
audience. According to Sol Hart and Lauren Feldman's research on the impact of
climate change efficacy messages, "news stories including positive internal efficacy
information, in particular, have the potential to increase public engagement around
climate change." In other words, providing an optimistic message about the future of
the world can inspire positive action. And there is good news, according to the IPCC:
the pace of rise in average annual global greenhouse gas emissions has dropped,
energy is getting more efficient and renewable, and deforestation rates are reducing.