Kenyan architectural firm Cave Bureau transforms the Old Sharjah Slaughterhouse to now become the Anthropocene Museum 9.0. This is functioning as a part of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial and the slaughterhouse is the structure that houses the ninth version of the roaming museum space. The team invited a community of creatives and artists to be a part of the museum to walk through displays of art whilst also functioning as a slaughterhouse.
Co-founder of Cave Bureau, Kabage Karanja tells Dezeen, "We were invited to select a site in any part of the city of Sharjah and make an intervention. We chose the Old Sharjah Slaughterhouse, as an extension of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial's strategy to embed an exhibition program within the fabric of the city. A powerful ambition that we refer to as an act of reverse futurism, where they co-opt both old and new neglected buildings of the city as a cultural canvas to trigger new regenerative interventions that can spur the city's growth, through a rich exchange of ideas and urban experiments."
Slaugherhouse-Transformed Unique Museums
Cave Bureau Creates the Anthropocene Museum 9.0
Trend Themes
1. Roaming Museum Spaces - The Anthropocene Museum 9.0 is a roaming museum space housed in the transformed Old Sharjah Slaughterhouse, offering disruptive innovation opportunities for creative display of art in unconventional settings.
2. Reverse Futurism - Cave Bureau's act of reverse futurism involves repurposing old and neglected buildings like the Old Sharjah Slaughterhouse as cultural canvases for regenerative interventions, presenting disruptive innovation opportunities for urban experiments.
3. Embedding Exhibition Programs - The Sharjah Architecture Triennial's strategy of embedding an exhibition program within the fabric of the city creates disruptive innovation opportunities for integrating art and architecture in unconventional spaces like a functioning slaughterhouse.
Industry Implications
1. Architecture - The transformation of the Old Sharjah Slaughterhouse into the Anthropocene Museum 9.0 presents disruptive innovation opportunities for architectural interventions that blend old and new structures in culturally significant ways.
2. Art - The collaboration between Cave Bureau and a community of creatives and artists in the Anthropocene Museum 9.0 offers disruptive innovation opportunities for showcasing art in unconventional spaces like a slaughterhouse.
3. Urban Planning - Cave Bureau's approach of repurposing neglected buildings as cultural canvases presents disruptive innovation opportunities for urban planning that prioritize regeneration and the revitalization of city spaces.