Suzhou Drainage Museum Chav Qhia Khoom by Whale Rider Architecture

Suzhou Drainage Museum Chav Qhia Khoom by Whale Rider Architecture is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Tooj in Tsim Chav Sab Hauv thiab Kev Nthuav Qhia Competition Category.

ToojSab Hauv· 2023

Suzhou Drainage Museum Chav Qhia Khoom

by Whale Rider Architecture

Client: Suzhou Drainage Co., Ltd

A' Design Award Tooj Winner in Sab Hauv Category

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The Design

About Suzhou Drainage Museum Chav Qhia Khoom

Suzhou Drainage Museum yog ib lub tsev qhia txog kev tshawb fawb hais txog kev kho dej qias, tsim tawm raws li lub ntsiab lus submarine (nkoj dej hauv qab dej). Sab hauv sib txuas cov qauv ntawm cov cuab yeej kho dej niaj hnub nrog cov chaw tsav nkoj, qhov rai me me thiab cov raj. Cov kev taug qab meej pib qhia cov qhua taug kev hla txhua theem ntawm kev ntxuav dej, uas muaj xws li kev cia kom lug, kev lim, kev nqus, kev kho tob zog thiab kev tua kab mob. Cov cuab yeej multimedia thiab cov cheeb tsam ua ua si tiag tiag hloov chaw rau kev qhia tsis tau koom tes. Cov khoom siv zoo rau ib puag ncig tsim tawm ib qho pom kev yooj yim thiab niaj hnub. Lub tsev qhia khoom no muaj lub hom phiaj txhawb kev paub txog ib puag ncig los ntawm kev kawm zoo li tau nyob hauv qhov chaw ntawd tiag tiag.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Tooj

Suzhou Drainage Museum Chav Qhia Khoom yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Tooj, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom heev uas muab rau cov qauv tsim tshwj xeeb uas txawv los ntawm kev tsim tshiab, kev txawj tsim thiab kev ntse. Cov neeg yeej Tooj yog cov khoom muaj txuj ci heev thiab tsim tshiab heev uas ua pov thawj txog kev paub ntau, kev xav thiab kev txawj ua ntawm cov kws tsim qauv. Suzhou Drainage Museum Chav Qhia Khoom xav tias yuav yog ib qho khoom uas neeg hwm, qhuas thiab hlub, uas tshaj lij heev thiab tsim tshiab. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Tooj no siv cov kev coj ua zoo tshaj plaws ntawm kev kos duab, kev tshawb fawb, kev tsim qauv thiab thev naus laus zis thiab zoo heev vim nws saib xyuas cov ntsiab lus. Suzhou Drainage Museum Chav Qhia Khoom ua tau raws li cov kev xav tau zoo kawg, kov cov kev xav, ntxias cov kev xav thiab txhawb kev xav paub.

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