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Secret Exhibition Sala d'Exposicion de Marchandisas by Yuan Jiang and Chen Song

Secret Exhibition Sala d'Exposicion de Marchandisas by Yuan Jiang and Chen Song is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Fèrre in Interior Competition Category.


FèrreInterior· 2022

Secret Exhibition Sala d'Exposicion de Marchandisas

by Yuan Jiang and Chen Song

Client: SODA Architects

A' Design Award de Fèrre Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Secret Exhibition Sala d'Exposicion de Marchandisas

Tèxte del Libre : Secret Exhibition es una sala d'exposicion de marchandisas creada per lo Musèu Nacional de China. L'espaci de 460 mètres quadrats combina l'art numeric amb l'estetica china eiretada. D'estands en forma d'illa, amb de formas fluïdas, presentan de produits culturals e creatius, de manièra que los visitaires percorreguen las marchandisas coma dins una exposicion mai que non pas dins una botiga. Una susfàcia mediatica personalizada ligam la susfàcia fisica e l'interfàcia virtuala, mentre qu'un programa de realitat aumentada apond una capa numerica parallèla. Sèt exposicions seleccionadas an inspirat un riu mobil de caractèrs chineses mostrat sus un ecran.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Fèrre

Secret Exhibition Sala d'Exposicion de Marchandisas a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre, una reconeissença prestigiosa acordada a de bons designs que respondon a las exigéncias professionalas e industrialas esperadas de creacions plan concebudas. Los ganhaires del Fèrre demòstran una granda abilitat, una nauta especializacion, una comprenedura d'expèrt e la capacitat creativa de lors creators. S'espèra que Secret Exhibition Sala d'Exposicion de Marchandisas siá una creacion fòrça considerada, admirada e estimada, practica e innovanta. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre integra las melhoras practicas del sector e a de caracteristicas tecnicas competentas ligadas a un saber-far e a un talent. Per son rigor, Secret Exhibition Sala d'Exposicion de Marchandisas merita lo respècte e es destinat a aportar de melhoraments a la qualitat de la vida que ajudan a far del mond un luòc melhor.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
SODA integrated modern digital art into inherited Chinese aesthetics, and created a cultural and creative exhibition hall with an immersive experience. This design concept breaks down the barriers of traditional museum merchandise space, and makes the Cultural and Creative Exhibition Hall of the National Museum of China to a re-defining contemporary public space with new narrative and new normative.
Dimensions & Packaging
460 square meters
Tags
Media interactive space, Media integrated exihibition, Digital installation, National Museum of China
Production Technology
In this project, SODA wants to bridge people with space and objects via spatial user experience and interaction in the construction of modern public space.

We researched and customized the media surface to give people a seamless experience in the interaction between physical surface and virtual interface.
We developed a space AR program that adds another layer of virtual space parallel to the physical one, in which visitors can have an extra dimensional experience beyond their everyday cognition, and have an imaginative experience of hyper reality.
Design Challenge
The challenge of the design is to break the conventional display of cultural and creative products in the store and allow customers to tour the cultural derivatives like an exhibition, converting the sales space into an exhibition space. The products and the island-like display case complement each other, providing a new way to explore the collections of the National Museum.
Research
Our team studied and researched important exhibits from different periods at the National Museum and selected seven representative works from them. The ancient texts of the era that they originated are brought together through artistic invention into a long river of words. The final result is a motion graphic image that flows through the led screen in the space of the National Museum.
Inspiration
The evolving collection of the National Museum of China contains treasures from Chinese civilization through the ages. The collection includes an ever expanding range from Yin Shang oracle bone to Lunar soil sample, converges into an ever-continuing story of Chinese civilization.
Project Duration
The project started in May 2020 and finished in December 2020, and was exhibited in National Museum of China.
Operation Flow
Physically, Visitors encounter historic and cultural products along with the flowing shape booths. Virtually, visitors are immersed in the digital flowing river of Chinese characters, which derives from museum collections. SODA interprets Chinese civilization by the contemporary aesthetic vocabulary, initiating a new dialogue on the relationship between history, modern, and people.

Only the participation of people completes the work. Therefore, the exhibition prepared digital souvenirs that can be shared for those who come and explore this new cultural and creative exhibition hall.
Team Members
Lead Designer: Jiang Yuan and Song Chen
Space & Digital Design Team: He Yue
Image Credits
Digital Artist: Li Yazhou, Li Ke
Photo Credits: Chen Xiyu
Video: Wang Jiashuai

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