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Louvre Abu Dhabi: a perforated aluminium dome of 7,850 stars in eight layers.

A perforated aluminium dome in Abu Dhabi shows aluminium sheet can be both a sun screen and the identity of an entire building.

Reference project — not a Eurowindow project. This article summarises public information from the sources listed at the end, with our own commentary. Images belong to their owners and are embedded directly from Pinterest with a link back to the source.

The project at a glance

Image: Louvre Abu Dhabi (source: ArchDaily) — see the original pin on Pinterest.

What stands out in the aluminium

According to Wikipedia, architect Jean Nouvel designed the Louvre Abu Dhabi with a dome of 7,850 aluminium stars of varying sizes, tessellating over eight layers to form a perforated roof. The whole structure weighs about 7,000 tonnes and is supported by four concrete pillars, with BuroHappold Engineering involved on the engineering side. The museum was inaugurated on 8 November 2017 and opened to the public three days later.

For anyone working with cladding panels, what stands out is that aluminium here is more than an enclosure: the stacked perforated layers cast shade and let light through, and also form the building’s identity.

Note: the Wikipedia article mentions only aluminium; we do not state the dome diameter because we have no reliable verified source for it.

Our take

From the aluminium dome in Abu Dhabi, three lessons for aluminium cladding:

  1. Multi-layer perforated aluminium can shade and give identity at once. Hole density and number of layers set how much light and heat pass through. See Eurowindow aluminium cladding.
  2. Repeating module sizes and shapes allow thousands of parts to be produced under control. Modular division keeps quality consistent when the part count is large.
  3. The structure carrying the cladding has to be designed with the architecture from the start. Here a roughly 7,000-tonne structure stands on only four pillars, so engineering and geometry were designed together.

If you are weighing options for a high-rise project, send your brief to the Eurowindow technical team to discuss specifics.

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