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Building Structure
The Museum of the Future is currently one of the world's most complex structures. It was designed by Killa Design Architecture Studio and engineered by Buro Happold. It is 32,000 square foot building that stands with no columns supporting its structure. The exterior façade of the building is comprised of 1,024 etched steel panels windows that form an Arabic poem by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai's ruler and Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, about the Emirate’s future. The museum has six floors dedicated to different exhibits that imagine life in the year 2071. Three floors focus on outer space resource development, ecosystems and bioengineering, and health and wellbeing. The other floors showcase near-future technologies that address challenges in areas including health, water, food, transportation, and energy, while the last floor is dedicated to children.

Design
The Arabic calligraphy engraved quotes on the Museum of the Future in Dubai is written by Emirati artist Matar Bin Lahej. The words written on Dubai's Museum of the Future are 3 quotes about the hope for the future of Dubai:


 * "We won't live for hundreds of years, but we can create something that will last for hundreds of years."
 * "The future will be for those who will be able to imagine, design and build it, the future does not wait, the future can be designed and built today."
 * "The secret of the renewal of life, the development of civilization and the progress of humanity is in one word: innovation."

These Arabic etchings allow for sunlight to peak through the writing in the daylight and light up with LED lights that outline the letters during the night.

Building Process
Killa Design and Buro Happold developed new parametric design and Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools, including a growth algorithm that employs digital means to grow the internal steel structure. Danem Engineering Works was one of the steel structure contractors for the project.

Growth Algorithm and Architectural Software
Due to the complex nature of this structure, a computer algorithm was needed to in order to successfully develop the structural design. As described by Shaun Killa from Killa Design, a parametrically scripted growth algorithm was used to produce the designs. The computer was given rules and the parameters of the building including: projected height and number floors and then Machine learning was used with the given rules to create the structural design for the museum's steel frame. Twenty versions of the museum's steel frame were created using this growth algorithm and the version that was most cost effective in terms of cost and use of materials was the version chosen. 3-D modeling software was then used to cover the building with the steel frame incised with the calligraphy while ensuring the windows are not obstructed.

Once the design was complete, Affan Innovative Structures then created the molds for the panels which took almost three years to complete. Each 3-D panel was first created digitally and then delegated to Affan Innovative Structures to incise the design into each of the panels.

Digital technology was used again to address a challenge that arose when constructing the building with the created panels. Whenever a panel was installed, the building would shift causing it to not match the projected 3-D model. According to the museum's project director, Tobias Bauly from Buro Happold, the complex movements were analyzed in all directions in order to allow for the placement of each of the panels in the proper sequence.