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To Demonstrate The Use Of Function-oriented Display Using The Function Of Natural History Museum

Posted on:2011-11-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z W CaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2132360308458916Subject:Architectural Design and Theory
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Compared to other types of construction, the difficulty of museum designing is dominated by two main aspects. The first one is the tremendous amount of museum type with diversifying requirements in terms of building; the other is the intricate function of various types of museum. It is these two characteristics that make it hard for people to build a standard model for all types of museum. Ideal museum should be established on the condition that any particular function or operation is able to be fully understood by museum users.This essay aims at analyzing the function of this unique type of museum, exploring its characteristics, introducing fundamental ideas regarding the museum during analysis and adds more value by improving this from the perspective of construction.This essay starts from the theories and practices about natural museum research, analyzes fundamental materials and confirms the integrated natural museum to be the research objective, followed by distinguishing professional roles and functions. Then the article sums up five major functions: display, storage, entertainment, technological education and research and analyzes them respectively especially the display section.After the analysis of display principles, the essay concludes that"objective","space"and"audience"serve as the major factors affecting the display. The core content of this essay is made up of the research on the correlation of the three factors. Regarding research of the relation between"objective"and"space", it begins from analyzing the characteristics of natural museum and then discusses the requirement to the"space"raised by"objective". In terms of the relation between"audience"and"objective", the essay mainly explains the change of notion on display and the effect of new ways of display on construction design. As for"audience"and"space", the essay focuses on the action of the audiences, along with real investigation and the type of museum on display, discusses its effect on natural museum exhibition.Finally, the essay goes to the research of its function. For the entertainment section, the essay emphasizes the layout, facility, function and the combination of construction and garden, etc. For storage, education and research part, the focal point lies on the basics of the distinction of natural museums and other museums.
Keywords/Search Tags:Museum of Natural History, Use function, Display, Five use function
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