Investigating the Influential Components in Museum Architecture as an Experience of the Future (Case Example: Dubai Future Museum)

As societies evolve and modernize, museums have also shifted to technology. Nowadays, museums are no longer only displaying the historical works of the past, but they are trying to familiarize society with the current realities and while moving towards a more modern society and a more advanced future, they play a more effective role than in the past. Technology museums are a kind of modern museum and seek to show a view of the future, as well as objective experience. The main goals of this research are to investigate and classify traditional and modern museums and compare them from three physical, functional, and social dimensions, to analyze the effective indicators in modern museum architecture and to present in the form of a conceptual model and analyze the components extracted from the conceptual model in the design of the future museum of Dubai. It’s a new museum. The current research method is descriptive analytics, and information was collected in the form of library documents and fields. In the first step, the literature on the types of museums (especially modern museums) has been reviewed and analyzed, the difference between traditional and modern museums has been reviewed, and the influential elements in the interior architecture of modern museums have been extracted in the form of a conceptual model. Then, in order to learn more about the progress of modern museums, based on the components presented in the conceptual model, a case study (Future Museum of Dubai) was reviewed. The findings show that museums are divided into two categories, traditional museums and modern museums, and the influential indicators in modern museum architecture include “technology, environment-friendly, natural and artificial light, color palette, decorations, public space, structure, and facilities”. As a new museum, the future museum of Dubai, with the aim of achieving sustainability, has used several concepts for each of the indicators of the new museum, and the most important of them is the use of new parametric modeling tools in the design of the structure of the technology index.