Suzhou Drainage Museum 展覽廳 by Whale Rider Architecture is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 銅獎 in 室內空間及展覽設計 Competition Category.
銅室內· 2023
Suzhou Drainage Museum 展覽廳
Client: Suzhou Drainage Co., Ltd
A' Design Award 銅獎 Winner in 室內 Category
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The Design
About Suzhou Drainage Museum 展覽廳
蘇州排水博物館係一個關於污水處理嘅科普展館，以潛水艇為主題進行設計。室內空間將現代處理設備嘅形態同駕駛艙、舷窗同管道結合埋一齊。清晰嘅動線引導參觀者了解水質淨化嘅各個階段，包括沉澱、過濾、吸附、深度處理同消毒。多媒體裝置同互動體驗區取代咗被動式嘅展示方式。環保物料營造出簡約而現代嘅視覺效果。博物館旨在通過沉浸式學習，提升公眾嘅生態環保意識。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅獎
Suzhou Drainage Museum 展覽廳是 A' Design Award 銅獎得主，這是授予以創造力、獨創性和敏銳見長的傑出設計的極具聲望的認可。銅獎得主是技藝嫻熟、創意驚人的作品，印證了其設計師豐富的經驗、想像力與機智。預計Suzhou Drainage Museum 展覽廳將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的物品，兼具顯著的專業性與創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銅獎的設計融入藝術、科學、設計和技術領域的最佳實踐，並因注重細節而出類拔萃。Suzhou Drainage Museum 展覽廳出色地滿足需求，觸動渴望，迷住情感，並吸引好奇心。
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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