Observations on a Woolly Mammoth Museum
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Observations on a Woolly Mammoth Museum Author(s): Cynthia Davidson Source: Log, No. 10 (Summer/Fall 2007), p. 70 Published by: Anyone Corporation Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41765162 . Accessed: 14/06/2014 13:56 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Anyone Corporation is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Log. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 62.122.77.48 on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 13:56:08 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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Observations on a Woolly Mammoth MuseumAuthor(s): Cynthia DavidsonSource: Log, No. 10 (Summer/Fall 2007), p. 70Published by: Anyone CorporationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41765162 .
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Leeser Architecture, World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum, 2007. With consultants Arup, Atelier 10, Balmori & Associates, Tillett, and RWDI.
Observations on a Woolly Mammoth Museum
Forget Bilbao ; put visiting Yakutsk on jour to-do list. This city of 200,000, located at 61 ,f° N, or 4$0 kilometers below the Arctic Circle, is the capital of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia in Russian Siberia. Rich in diamonds, gold, oil, and gas, Yakutsk is also home to 1$ museums, the newest of which will be the World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum, the subject of a recent international design competition won by Leeser Architecture of New York. Leeser* s proposed eye-p opp ing form may look a bit like an over- sized, orthogonal ocarina, or seem to owe a debt to Le Corbusierys "light cannons" ÇLa Tourette, etc.), but the architect's intent was to invent a highly insulated response to the extreme climate ( up to 90 degrees F in summer, and 60 degrees below zero in winter ) with a physically, if not visually, low-impact building. Hence the "legs" to lift the building off the ground, so as to minimize the affect of the its heat on the permafrost, and on top, protruding light monitors both to illuminate the galleries and to reduce the load of drifting snow on the roof. Inside, scientific research areas will be visually linked with visitor circulation to the upper-level exhibition galleries. If the reported melting of the permafrost layer in Siberia continues Ç an effect of global warming), the museum could become not just an increasingly important research center but also the last creature still standing. - - Cynthia Davidson
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