Suzhou Drainage Museum Imba Yekuratidza by Whale Rider Architecture

Suzhou Drainage Museum Imba Yekuratidza by Whale Rider Architecture is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award in Nzvimbo yeMukati neMusangano Competition Category.

BronziMukati· 2023

Suzhou Drainage Museum Imba Yekuratidza

by Whale Rider Architecture

Client: Suzhou Drainage Co., Ltd

Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award Winner in Mukati Category

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The Design

About Suzhou Drainage Museum Imba Yekuratidza

Suzhou Drainage Museum ingimba yesainzi inobata nezvekubvisa marara emvura, yakagadzirwa ichishandisa musoro wechikepe chinofamba mumvura (submarine). Mukati mayo, zvivakwa zvemazuva ano zvekubata mvura zvakasanganiswa nezvimiro zvekockpit, mawindo ematanda (portholes) uye mipombi. Nzira dzakajeka dzekufamba dzinotungamirira vashanyi kuburikidza nezvikamu zvekunatswa kwemvura, izvo zvinosanganisira kudzikira kwetsvina (precipitation), kusefa (filtration), kunamatira (adsorption), kunatswa kwakadzama uye kubvisa utachiona. Michina yemhando dzakasiyana-siyana (multimedia) uye nzvimbo dzekuita zvinhu nemaoko dzinotsiva mimhanzi isingaiti kuti vanhu vabatanidzwe. Zvinhu zvine hutsanana hwezvakatipoteredza (environmentally friendly materials) zvinogadzira chimiro chakachena uye chemazuva ano chinooneka nemaziso. Imba iyi yesainzi inovavarira kusimudzira ruzivo rwezvakatipoteredza kuburikidza nedzidzo inobatanidza vashanyi zvakadzama.

The Recognition

About the Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award

Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award wakahwinwa ne Suzhou Drainage Museum Imba Yekuratidza, rukudzo rwakakwirira kwazvo runopiwa kumadhizaini akasiyana anozivikanwa nekugadzira, njere nekungwara. Vakunda veBronzi mabasa ane unyanzvi hwakakwana uye kugadzira kunoshamisa kunosimbisa ruzivo rukuru, pfungwa nehunyanzvi hwevagadziri vawo. Suzhou Drainage Museum Imba Yekuratidza inotarisirwa kuva chinhu chinokudzwa kwazvo, chinoremekedzwa uye chinodiwa, chine hunyanzvi hunoonekwa uye zvitsva. Dhizaini iyi yakahwina Mubairo weBronzi we A' Design Award inosanganisa maitiro akanakisa muhunyanzvi, sayenzi, dhizaini netekinoroji uye yakasiyana nekutarisisa zvidiki. Suzhou Drainage Museum Imba Yekuratidza inogutsa zvinodiwa zvakanaka, inobata zvishuvo, inokwezva manzwiro uye inomutsa kuda kuziva.

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