khan shatyry (royal marquee) is a giant transparent tent currently under construction in astana, capital city of kazakhstan. the architectural project was unveiled by the president of kazakhstan nursultan nazarbayev on 9 december 2006. the 150m-high (500ft) tent has a 200m elliptical base covering 100,000 square meters.[1] 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. this will be the second project designed by uk architect norman foster (of foster and partners, collaborating architects are linea, gultekin and 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 company sembol.
khan shatyry (royal marquee) is a giant transparent tent currently under construction in astana, capital city of kazakhstan. the architectural project was unveiled by the president of kazakhstan nursultan nazarbayev on 9 december 2006. the 150m-high (500ft) tent has a 200m elliptical base covering 100,000 square meters.[1] 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. this will be the second project designed by uk architect norman foster (of foster and partners, collaborating architects are linea, gultekin and 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 company sembol.