Estonian National Museum

Country

Estonia

Description

AAC was used in storage rooms in the basement of the National Museum for moisture balancing purposes. Besides building the non-bearing walls from AAC, also concrete walls were covered with AAC. Walls were left without finishing as they have to absorb the excess moisture when level is too high and to relieve the moisture when level is low.

Comments

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Start of construction:2013

Completion of construction:2016

Location of project:Tartu, Estonia

Market segment:Public building

Type of building:National Museum

Investor:Estonian state owned company

Architect / Project consultant:SARL D´Architecture Dorell Ghotmeh Tane, Estonian partner: HG Arhitektuur /architectural engineering: Novarc

Building contractor:Fund Ehitus

Brand:Bauroc

Solution / application:AAC was used in storage rooms in the basement of the National Museum for moisture balancing purposes. Besides building the non-bearing walls from AAC, also concrete walls were covered with AAC. Walls were left without finishing as they have to absorb the excess moisture when level is too high and to relieve the moisture when level is low.

Products:Application of about 1.200 m3 AAC

Special features:In 1922, the Raadi manor house in the outskirts of Tartu in South Estonia was adapted for collections and exhibitions of the Estonian National Museum. In 1944, during the fighting between German and Soviet forces, the main building at Raadi was heavily damaged by fire. Subsequently, the territory of the museum at Raadi became the largest Soviet military airfields in the Baltic region. The decision for restoring the Museum at Raadi was made in 2003. Now a 350-metre-long glass block ramps up from the runway of a former soviet airfield near the city of Tartu to form the Estonian National Museum. Net area of the building is 33.876 m² and cubature 261.000 m³.