Suzhou Drainage Museum Balai Pameran by Whale Rider Architecture is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Perunggu in Desain Ruang Interior dan Pameran Competition Category.
PerungguInterior· 2023
Suzhou Drainage Museum Balai Pameran
Client: Suzhou Drainage Co., Ltd
A' Design Award Perunggu Winner in Interior Category
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The Design
About Suzhou Drainage Museum Balai Pameran
Museum Drainase Suzhou adalah museum sains tentang pengolahan air limbah yang dirancang dengan tema kapal selam. Interiornya memadukan bentuk peralatan pengolahan modern dengan ruang kemudi, jendela bulat kapal, dan sistem perpipaan. Alur sirkulasi yang jelas menuntun pengunjung melalui tahapan pemurnian air, yang meliputi pengendapan, penyaringan, penyerapan, pengolahan lanjutan, dan disinfeksi. Perangkat multimedia serta area aktivitas interaktif menggantikan penyajian yang bersifat pasif. Material ramah lingkungan menghadirkan efek visual yang sederhana dan modern. Museum ini bertujuan meningkatkan kesadaran ekologis melalui pembelajaran yang imersif.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Perunggu
Suzhou Drainage Museum Balai Pameran adalah pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu, pengakuan yang sangat bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain luar biasa yang dicirikan oleh kreativitas, kecerdikan, dan ketajaman. Pemenang Perunggu adalah artefak yang sangat terampil dan sangat kreatif yang membuktikan pengalaman luas, imajinasi, dan kelihaian para desainernya. Suzhou Drainage Museum Balai Pameran diharapkan menjadi objek yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi, dan dicintai, sangat profesional dan inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu ini menyertakan praktik terbaik dalam seni, sains, desain, dan teknologi, dan sangat baik dalam perhatiannya pada detail. Suzhou Drainage Museum Balai Pameran memuaskan kebutuhan dengan indah, menyentuh keinginan, memikat perasaan, dan menarik rasa ingin tahu.
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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