BORNALES, KATHERINE D.

DESIGN 3 AR126 (10879)

MUSEUM: HANIO MUSEUM

The Museum designed by GMP Architekten, Internacinal winners in the competition

organized in 2005, is surrounded by water mirrors, monuments and traditional
Vietnamese buildings. Its construction incorporates some common construction details
to mix with a new twist architectural museums.
Inside the museum, with its white walls and large spiral ramp, bears some resemblance
to the Guggenheim Museum in New York of Frank Lloyd Wright. Its exterior structure
resembles an inverted pyramid with four descending levels square.
Location
The museum was built in the middle of an artificial park in the district of Hoan
Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam. The museum is next to the National Convention Center opened
in 2006.
Hoan Kiem district is an urban and commercial center of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam,
named after the picturesque Hoan Kiem lake nearby, which are the most public
companies in the country and the headquarters of banks.
Spaces

The outdoor areas surrounding the building offer large spaces for exhibitions or other
events. The square building has access from all four sides and the ground floor
significantly lower than the first floor highlights the characteristic gardens and water
seem to start under the building, detail that was taken into account in the planning of the
surroundings.

The building shaped like an inverted pyramid has a square plan and inside a central
circular atrium that links the input level with the top three levels of exposure through a
ramp. These plants are arranged in terraces cantilevered, overhanging increasingly as
you ascend and designed to provide shade to the ground underneath them,
corresponding to section energy efficiency concept, while helping to conserve the works
exhibited protecting them from direct sunlight.
The distribution of terraced floors cantilevered created in the visitor looks out the effect
of floating on the landscape because it has no view of the lower level.

The ramp is a continuous spiral surrounding the large central vacuum

allowing access to all levels and connecting the museum as a whole. Thus it becomes the dominant
element in the museum, while offering views of the lobby and into the exhibition areas
SECTION:

Structure

The ramp is a continuous spiral surrounding the large

central vacuum allowing access to all levels and connecting the museum as a whole.
Thus it becomes the dominant element in the museum, while offering views of the lobby
and into the exhibition areas

performed immediately after the nuclei. The roof structure was made with wall panels
reinforced concrete tie beams. Wall panels link the four cores and improve the overall
rigidity of the building. The edges and inner areas of the roof structure were built with
steel framework to reduce the dead weight.

Materials

In its construction they have mainly used reinforced concrete, steel and glass.
The crystals are perimeter of a semitransparent green tone and positioned behind
ornamental panels that create a transparent façade while diffuse that changes
depending on the direction it is observed. This facade gives an indirect light to large
exhibition spaces and give a soft light.