- Khan Shatyry
Khan Shatyry ("Royal Marquee") is a giant transparent tent currently under construction in
Astana , capital city ofKazakhstan . The architectural project was unveiled by the President of KazakhstanNursultan Nazarbayev on9 December 2006 .The 150m-high (500ft) tent has a 200m elliptical base covering 100,000 square meters. [http://www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/1438/Default.aspx Foster and Partners page on the project] ] Underneath the tent, an area larger than 10 football stadiums, will be an urban-scale internal park, shopping and entertainment venue with squares and cobbled streets, a boating river, shopping centre, minigolf and indoor beach resort. It is being made from
ETFE suspended on a network of cables strung from a central spire. The transparent material allows sunlight through which, in conjunction with air heating and cooling systems maintain an internal temperature between 15-30°C in the main space and 19-24°C in the retail units, while outside the temperature varies between -35 to +35°C across the year.After the
Palace of Peace and Reconciliation (2006), this will be the second project designed by UK architect Norman Foster (ofFoster and Partners , collaborating architects are Linea, Gultekin and UMO), who has recently built a giant glass pyramid in Astana. The construction of the tent-city, expected to take a year(probably a bit more), will be carried out by the Turkish companySembol .References
External links
* [http://www.khanshatyr.com Khan Shatyr]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6165267.stm BBC News on the Giant Tent-City]
* [http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=511231 Khan Shatyr on Skyscrapercity.com]
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