Suzhou Drainage Museum Hall d'exposition by Whale Rider Architecture is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design d'Intérieur Competition Category.
BronzeIntérieur· 2023
Suzhou Drainage Museum Hall d'exposition
Client: Suzhou Drainage Co., Ltd
A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Intérieur Category
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The Design
About Suzhou Drainage Museum Hall d'exposition
Le Musée de l'Assainissement de Suzhou est un musée scientifique consacré au traitement des eaux usées, conçu autour d'une thématique sous-marine. L'aménagement intérieur associe les formes des équipements de traitement modernes à celles de postes de pilotage, de hublots et de conduites. Des parcours de circulation clairement définis guident les visiteurs à travers les différentes étapes de la purification de l'eau : décantation, filtration, adsorption, traitement avancé et désinfection. Des dispositifs multimédias et des espaces d'activités interactives remplacent la présentation passive. Des matériaux respectueux de l'environnement créent un effet visuel épuré et contemporain. Le musée entend sensibiliser le public à l'écologie par un apprentissage immersif.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Bronze
Suzhou Drainage Museum Hall d'exposition est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Suzhou Drainage Museum Hall d'exposition est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Suzhou Drainage Museum Hall d'exposition satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This submarine themed sewage treatment science museum features the form fusion of modern treatment equipment and the elements of cockpits, portholes and pipes. Supplemented by rational moving lines, it shows the whole process of effluent treatment wittily and progressively. Various modern multimedia devices are applied to enrich educational modes and create strong senses of joy, technology and ritual, raising the ecological awareness of visitors via immersive experiences of edutainment.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The service area is about 58 square kilometers, the service population is about 500,000 people, and the daily treatment capacity is 180,000 tons.
- Tags
- Popular Science Education, Ecological Protection, Immersive Experience, Multiple Interaction Modes, Edutainment
- Production Technology
- The project is mainly built with environmentally friendly materials, whose textures, colors and grains create a simple visual effect and set a very modern tone. The material selection enhances the relaxing and joyful ambiance, and more meaningfully, puts the concept of sustainable development into practice, which resonates with the project positioning as a science museum for popularizing the knowledge about sewage treatment and ecological environment protection.
- Design Challenge
- The design difficulty lay in the public resistance to the stereotype of traditional science museums, incapacitating the effect on science popularization. To address the issue above, the project provides scientific and joyful experiences for visitors, and motivates them to explore via immersive multisensoryinteraction and hands on activities. The reclaimed water pool outside is designed as the realistic presentation of harmonious ecology, channeling the academic journey to the real life.
- Research
- The picturesque scenery of Suzhou City in China isattributed to its advanced drainage system, which is worthy of local residents and nonnative visitors to learn from. Drawing on the drainage system, this project simplifies the complicate water purification process into the steps of precipitation, filtration, adsorption, deep treatment and disinfection, presenting the complex process lucidly. And the content displayed in multiple dimensions gives visitors a scientific and joyful experience.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by submarines, the design team further used pipe elements commonly seen in sewage treatment to simulate an immersive space that combines scientific knowledge and activities, where all age groupscan be drawn in to learn about environmental protection. Via therealistic exhibition design, the conventional dull science popularization is turned into a relaxing and joyful journey of exploration, instilling sewage treatment knowledge into visitors through audiovisual and hands on activities
- Project Duration
- The project design lasted from June 10 to September 18, 2021. And the science museum is located near Shihu Bridge in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.
- Operation Flow
- This project sheds the passive audiovisual mode of science popularization, and fully utilizes multimedia devices to enrich education forms. The areas for hands on activities are set according to the moving lines and the sewage treatment process, which are available for operation and display, showing the amazing process that turns sewage into reclaimed water.
The reclaimed water pool outside tangibly displays the results of sewage treatment, visualizing the purity of reclaimed water for visitors. - Team Members
- Bifeng Li
Wenjing Lu
Kaili Hu
Dalian Liu
Chao Shi
Yubao Fan
Yuan Sun
Han Zhang
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