A case study about Riverside museum by Zaha Hadid this case study has the architectural content of the Riverside museum located in the United Kingdom Architect - Zaha Hadid is a city's transport collection museum at the city's Kelvin Hall Museum of Transport in Pointhouse Quay in the Glasgow Harbour

1. RIVERSIDE MUSEUM
The Riverside Museum is the location of the Glasgow
Museum of Transport, at Pointhouse Quay in the Glasgow
Harbour regeneration district of Glasgow, Scotland. The
building opened in June 2011.
The Riverside Museum building was designed by Zaha Hadid
Architects and engineers Buro Happold. The internal exhibitions
and displays were designed by Event Communications, a
specialist London-based museum design firm. The purpose-built
Museum replaced the previous home for the city's transport
collection, at the city's Kelvin Hall.
The location of the museum is on the site of the former A. & J.
Inglis Shipyard within Glasgow Harbour, on the north bank of
the River Clyde and adjacent to its confluence point with the
River Kelvin. This site enabled the Clyde Maritime Trust's SV
Glenlee and other visiting craft to berth alongside the museum.
Location : 100 Pointhouse Rd, Partick, Glasgow G3
8RS, United Kingdom
Zaha Hadid Architects have completed the Riverside Museum in Glasgow with a zig-
zagging, zinc-clad roof.
Housing a museum of transport with over 3,000 exhibits, the building has a 36
metre-high glazed frontage overlooking the River Clyde.
The building zig-zags back across its site from this pointy roofline in folds clad with
patinated zinc panels.
Strips of lighting inside follow seams in the green underside of the undulating roof.
The building, open at opposite ends, has a tunnel-like configuration between the city and the Clyde. However, within this connection
between the city and river, the building diverts to create a journey away from its external context into the world of the exhibits.
Here, the internal path within the museum becomes a mediator between city and river, which can either be hermetic or porous
depending on the exhibition layout. Thus, the museum positions itself symbolically and functionally as open and fluid, engaging its
context and content to ensure it is profoundly interlinked with not only Glasgow’s history, but also its future. Visitors build up a
gradual sense of the external context as they move through the museum from exhibit to exhibit.
The plates of the first and second floor were made of reinforced concrete “in situ” of 150 mm on profiled steel decks and steel
girders also. Both facades and roof panels are lined with pre-patinated zinc, turning gray body, together with butt joints. The two
ends of the museum are closed with glass walls.

2. PLAN
The form of the roof structure is roughly z-shaped
in plan with structural mullions at each end that not
only support the roof, but also allow the glazed end
façades to be supported without the need for any
secondary members. In section the roof is a series
of continuous ridges and valleys that constantly
vary in height and width from one gable to the other
with no two lines of rafters being geometrically the
same. Generally the cross section is a pitched
portal frame with a multi pitched rafter spanning
between the portal and a perimeter column. There
are also curved transition areas where the roof
changes direction in plan.
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