Design Museum

Lagos, Nigeria

The Grade II listed former Commonwealth Institute building has been transformed into a new home for the Design Museum, opening to the public in late 2016. The world-class museum of design includes galleries for permanent and temporary exhibitions, education spaces and a design reference library.

The building is a unique, hyperbolic parabola in form, with interwoven curves, glazing, rises and falls in all directions across the expanse of the listed copper roof. Whilst this complex existing structure proved challenging to convert to an accurate 3D software model, we were able to create a TAS dynamic simulation which accurately reflected this complex structure. We used this model to simulate energy consumption, CO2 emissions and an enhanced version for detailed daylight analysis, all of which were very challenging due to the unique structural nature of the building and roof.

New glazed entrances will lead in towards the galleries located on the ground floor, basement and second floor. ChapmanBDSP undertook extensive daylight studies with the goal of reducing natural daylight as far as possible in order to achieve a controlled internal environment for features and displays.

London, UK

Cultural Facility Redevelopment