
06
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
2025
Cultural
Architecture, Interiors, Landscape
Location
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Year
2025
Status
Completed
Area
12,800 m²
Client
Ministry of Culture
Scope
Architecture, Interiors, Landscape



Project narrative
A museum for objects that travelled further than the people who made them. The galleries are a run of brick vaults, each lit by a single oculus, each sized to a category of object rather than to a floor plan. Below, a service level uses the ground's thermal mass to hold the collection at temperature with very little mechanical help. The building is deliberately quiet: it is a set of rooms, not a landmark.

Material study
In the studio’s words
Drawings

Ground floor

Section A–A

Elevation


On site
A museum of trade routes built as a sequence of vaulted rooms, lit from above and cooled from below.
A. Saidov
VOLUM
VOLUM
VOLUM Landscape
VOLUM Studio
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