Darwin Centre, Natural History Museum

In this video clip, exclusively from NBS Learning Channels - http://www.theNBS.com - Anna Maria Indrio from one of Scandinavia's oldest and largest architectural practices, C. F. Møller, Ed Newman-Sanders from Arup and Andy Ford from Fulcrum Consulting discuss the development of Phase 2 of the Darwin Centre project at the Natural History Museum, London.

200 years on from Charles Darwin's birth and 150 years since the publication of his On the Origin of Species, the latest extension to the Natural History Museum in London the new Darwin Centre opened to the public in September 2009. The Darwin Centre provides a storage space for the Museum's collections, laboratories for its scientists, and new galleries to educate the public about biodiversity and the nature of scientific enquiry. Built in two phases, the first of which (designed by HOK) opened in 2002, this programme focuses on the second phase of the building, looking at its architecture, engineering and construction, especially its eight-storey sprayed concrete Cocoon. The Darwin Centre's architecture is considered alongside the original museum (the Waterhouse Building) and discussed in its own terms with lead architect Anna Maria Indrio of C. F. Møller Architects. The building's structural engineering is addressed by Ed Newman-Sanders of Arup, taking a detailed look at the construction of the Cocoon. Temperature and humidity regulation is tackled with help from Andy Ford of services engineers Fulcrum Consulting. The new facilities are also considered from the user's viewpoint, with help from museum botanist Mark Spencer.

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