The ArtScience Museum marks a new synthesis of art and science, both in its exhibitions and in its expressive form, made possible through innovative technologies.
View along the public waterfront promenade, with integrated seating around the lily pond at the base of the museum.
View of the oculus.
Curators have the choice of traditional galleries or more unconventional, complex galleries, appropriate to its curatorial mission of exploration.
The museum building is supported by an internal steel lattice structure, tied down at its center by a basket-like diagrid to accommodate the asymmetrical forces that the building's form generates.
View from the bayfront.
The building is supported by a steel lattice diagrid structure and ten steel columns –a sculptural centerpiece that allows the building to seemingly float above. The geometry of the shape is often compared to a lotus, and is clad with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP), typically used in high-performance racing yachts.
The museum hovers over the Marina Bay waterfront promenade and a reflecting pool lily pond.
Building Section
The dish-shaped roof form collects rainwater and drains it through an oculus, creating a waterfall through the open-air atrium of the museum.
The upper galleries are organized into 10 halls that vary from double height vertical spaces, to long horizontal rooms. Each hall has access to daylight from skylights above and from the central atrium. Integrated lighting control mechanisms allow the spaces to be transformed to black boxes. Large picture windows from within the galleries offer views to the promenade below.
The museum hovers over the waterfront promenade and lily pond below.
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