Qatar giftshop

In the National Museum of Qatar in Doha, nearing completion after eight years in the making, a dune-like theme has been featured by Australian studio Koichi Takada Architects. Two gift shops inside the museum feature impressive undulating wooden surfaces, and these two cave-like gift shops are the first of a number of interior spaces that Koichi Takada is creating inside the new museum, along with three restaurants set to open later this year.

The timber walls of the museum shops were inspired by Dahl Al Misfir. Its organic architecture echoes Koichi Takada’s vision of bringing nature back into architecture, establishing relationships that connect people and nature through design. Using a cutting-edge 3D modelling software, Koichi Takada Architects achieved a design of curves and surfaces.

Imagine putting together the 40,000 wooden pieces of a three-dimensional puzzle? Each wooden piece, CNC-cut in Italy, is entirely unique so it could only fit with its exact complementary piece. They were assembled by hand in Doha by Italian master carpenter, Claudio Devoto and his team of artisans.

Located on a 1.5 million-square-foot site at the south end of Doha’s Corniche, the National Museum of Qatar will be the first monument visible to travellers arriving from the airport. The exterior of the National Museum of Qatar was designed by French architect and Pritzker prizewinner, Jean Nouvel.

TIME Magazine recently announced the museum as one of the 100 greatest places to visit in the world! Each interior space offers a fragment of the Qatari history, that aims to enhance and fulfil both, a cultural and memorable experience for museum visitors.

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