New project wants to bring children and adults to experience the phenomena of nature immersively, in a true merger of lights, colors, technology, architecture and science.
The new, in the Saadiyat Cultural District, in Abu Dhabi, is a real fusion between art, science and technology.
“We have created this way that people can’t define, and that’s what makes it curious for them,” says Tony Abi Gebrayel, managing partner of MZ Architects. Yes, the museum was built based on architecture. But it is architecture, based on science, which makes the museum. It sounds confusing, but the result is a place full of crazy shapes and colors, which teach from sensations.
An example is the wind room, the wind form. The floor is full of undulating socals that simulate the shape of the wind. And the floor is not fixed: moves under your feet While exploring the room, interacting with the visitor while showing the sensory pathway how scientific phenomena work.
The exhibition is divided into two large areas: drought and wet, advances a. Teamlab’s main interior architect Shogo Kawata exploded why in most dry rooms the ground is not flat: the soles of our feet are not flat and, therefore, are naturally best suited to walking over organic forms.
Projections of light on the floor and walls react to their movements to their presence while moving through the room or touches objects. The goal is experience science immersively. The supposed is to allow the visitor to have “physical experiences – smell and play things,” promises the museum.
In the wet zone, it is possible for example, in a part, smell. This is the case of the “Floating Microcosms” room, a collection of soft sculptures, the “ovoids” that float in water to the visitor’s ankles, which can move the place sculptures.
Founded in 2001 in Japan, Teamlab is an international organization, and has immersive experiences in various parts of the world. The goal, says its founder Toshiyuki Inoko, is that those who visit the phenomena leave with a greater “connection with themselves and with their own environment.” A simple ticket for an adult costs 35.80 euros, and children pay 11.93 €.
