Year / 2021
Client / Various
Location / Cairo, Egypt
Between 2018 and 2021, GCA undertook a series of projects in collaboration with Hayley Sharp Design to provide a structural strategy, concept and implementation for the support of a wide range of artefacts at the £1bn Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Our brief was to ensure the safe support and integration of structural systems to resist seismic, accidental, live and dead loads from a group of over 20,000 objects.
GCA worked closely with designers, fabricators and curators to ensure objects were presented securely and safely, within the confines of a building which was under construction.
Through detailed and rigorous analysis, we reduced a vast range of potential load configurations to a manageable and calculable set of cases. These were then provided with full, detailed design to provide proposals for fabrication.