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Suzhou Drainage Museum Utstillingshall by Whale Rider Architecture

Suzhou Drainage Museum Utstillingshall by Whale Rider Architecture is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award i Bronse in Interiør- og utstillingsdesign Competition Category.


BronseInteriør· 2023

Suzhou Drainage Museum Utstillingshall

by Whale Rider Architecture

Client: Suzhou Drainage Co., Ltd

A' Design Award i Bronse Winner in Interiør Category

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The Design

About Suzhou Drainage Museum Utstillingshall

Suzhou Drainage Museum er et vitensenter om avløpsrensing, utformet med et undervannsbåt-tema. Interiøret kombinerer formene til moderne renseanlegg med elementer som cockpiter, koøyer og rørsystemer. Tydelige ferdselsårer leder besøkende gjennom de ulike fasene av vannrensing, som omfatter sedimentering, filtrering, adsorpsjon, dyprensing og desinfeksjon. Multimedieinstallasjoner og interaktive aktivitetsområder erstatter passiv formidling. Miljøvennlige materialer skaper et enkelt og moderne visuelt uttrykk. Museet har som mål å øke den økologiske bevisstheten gjennom oppslukende læring.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Bronse

Suzhou Drainage Museum Utstillingshall er vinner av A' Design Award i Bronse, en høyt prestisjefylt anerkjennelse som tildeles enestående design som utmerker seg ved kreativitet, oppfinnsomhet og skarpsindighet. Bronsevinnere er rikt dyktige og påfallende kreative gjenstander som bekrefter designernes store erfaring, fantasi og ressurssterkhet. Suzhou Drainage Museum Utstillingshall forventes å være en høyt ansett, beundret og verdsatt gjenstand som er bemerkelsesverdig profesjonell og nyskapende. Dette designet, som har vunnet A' Design Award i Bronse, rommer beste praksis innen kunst, vitenskap, design og teknologi og utmerker seg ved sin omtanke for detaljer. Suzhou Drainage Museum Utstillingshall tilfredsstiller behov på en strålende måte, berører ønsker, sjarmerer følelser og vekker nysgjerrighet.

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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