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Barjeel Museum for Modern Arab Art, Sharjah
Architecture in Dubai Area, UAE – design by Habibeh Madjdabadi Architect
1 Nov 2019
Barjeel Museum for Modern Arab Art, Sharjah
Design: Architect Habibeh Madjdabadi
Location: Sharjah, Dubai, UAE

Habibeh Madjdabadi’s Museum for Modern Arab Art in the UAE
As part of an international call to design the new ?Barjeel Museum for Modern Arab Art? in Sharjah, Iranian architect Habibeh Madjdabadi presents her concept, which was awarded honorable mention in the Rifat Chadirji Prize 2019.

Conceived as an architectural and cultural landmark for the area, Madjdabadi?s idea can be described as a contemporary interpretation of the BADGIR (Persian) or barjeel – the arabic name for the wind towers that are traditionally used in the region to provide ventilation in the hot desert climate.
When embarking on the project, the main challenge was creating a place to host the contemporary art collection while at the same time considering the local cultural heritage and environmental conditions. Madjdabadi therefore formed her architectural response around two central objectives.

Firstly, to establish an intelligent and tangible relation with the context and with the barjeel foundation, and secondly, to fulfil the functional requirements of the competition through an efficient distribution of the activities and paying particular attention to the surrou...