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Secret Exhibition Выставочный зал сувенирной продукции by Yuan Jiang and Chen Song

Secret Exhibition Выставочный зал сувенирной продукции by Yuan Jiang and Chen Song is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Железная премия A' Design Award in Дизайн интерьеров и выставочных пространств Competition Category.


ЖелезнаяИнтерьер· 2022

Secret Exhibition Выставочный зал сувенирной продукции

by Yuan Jiang and Chen Song

Client: SODA Architects

Железная премия A' Design Award Winner in Интерьер Category

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The Design

About Secret Exhibition Выставочный зал сувенирной продукции

«Тайная экспозиция» — выставочный зал сувенирной продукции, созданный для Национального музея Китая. Пространство площадью 460 квадратных метров объединяет цифровое искусство с традиционной китайской эстетикой. Островные витрины с плавными, текучими形 формами демонстрируют культурно-креативные товары, поэтому посетители осматривают продукцию скорее как экспозицию, а не как магазин. Специально разработанная медиаповерхность связывает физическую плоскость и виртуальный интерфейс, а программа дополненной реальности добавляет параллельный цифровой слой. Семь отобранных экспонатов вдохновили создание движущейся «реки» китайских иероглифов, транслируемой на экране.

The Recognition

About the Железная премия A' Design Award

Secret Exhibition Выставочный зал сувенирной продукции — лауреат Железной премии A' Design Award, престижного признания, присуждаемого хорошим проектам, которые отвечают профессиональным и промышленным требованиям, ожидаемым от хорошо продуманных творений. Обладатели Железной премии демонстрируют большое мастерство, высокую специализацию, экспертное понимание и творческие способности их авторов. Ожидается, что Secret Exhibition Выставочный зал сувенирной продукции станет высокоценимым, вызывающим восхищение и дорогим сердцу творением, практичным и инновационным. Этот проект, получивший Железную премию A' Design Award, интегрирует лучшие отраслевые практики и обладает компетентными техническими характеристиками, сочетающимися с ноу-хау и талантом. Благодаря основательности Secret Exhibition Выставочный зал сувенирной продукции заслуживает уважения и создан для того, чтобы улучшать качество жизни, помогая сделать мир лучше.

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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