Urban Renewal Exploration Centre 市區重建 by Oval Design Ltd is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 室內空間及展覽設計 Competition Category.
鐵室內· 2018
Urban Renewal Exploration Centre 市區重建
Client: Urban Renewal Authority, Hong Kong
A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 室內 Category
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The Design
About Urban Renewal Exploration Centre 市區重建
市區重建探索中心聚焦香港嘅房屋問題，展示市區重建嘅努力成果，以及對社區帶��嚟嘅裨益。中心面向廣泛嘅受眾，由中小學生以至本地社區居民都涵蓋在內。中心運用數碼科技同互動多媒體，例如支援iBeacon嘅電子導覽、擴增實境、Kinect遊戲，以及結合真人尺寸模型嘅市區重建資訊站，透過一段充滿趣味嘅旅程，將複雜嘅議題同多元化嘅資訊傳遞畀公眾。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 鐵獎
Urban Renewal Exploration Centre 市區重建是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計Urban Renewal Exploration Centre 市區重建將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。Urban Renewal Exploration Centre 市區重建因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The venue is divided into two areas, namely the exhibition area and activity room. The former one is dialogue friendly in design featuring multimedia facilities and various fun-based interactive multimedia games. Visitors experience the poor living environment of residents in old districts with the support of smart technology and gain hands-on urban renewal experience through playing the games and better understand the benefits that the projects have brought to the community. The activity room provides a stage and setting to facilitate the engagement activities.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The Urban Renewal Exploration Centre is about 237 square meters with a 204 square meters conference room.
- Tags
- exhibition, interior, multimedia, interactive, AR, urban development
- Production Technology
- iBeacon-enabled E-Tour Guide, Augmented Reality, Kinect Game, UR Info Hub which is a mobile application with database programmed up two multi-touch tables.
- Design Challenge
- Urban Renewal Authority has implemented 69 projects benefitting some 40,000 people. Around 2,300 buildings have been benefitted from rehabilitation schemes and some 60 historical buildings have been preserved and revitalized. Their projects will be launched from time to time hence the design challenge is to design and build in equipment such that it can offer flexibility to accommodate updates, additions or alterations to the content of the projects easily and promptly without major cost implications.
- Research
- A questionnaire survey is conducted via ipad for each visitor to evaluate the effectiveness of the exhibition. By statistics, there are 5,515 unguided visitors and 1,197 guided visitors while there are total 57 guided tours since the opening of UREC on 30 October 2017 to 21 February 2018. 95.8% of the respondents gave 4 or 5 for the satisfaction rate. The overall rating of satisfaction is 4.55 out of 5. 97% of the respondents said UREC can enable their understanding on urban renewal.
- Inspiration
- The Urban Renewal Exploration Centre targets to a wide audience, ranging from primary and secondary students to local community with an objective to communicate the urban renewal efforts and their benefits. To translate the complex topics and diversified information to the public, high technology was adopted to present a real-life experience of dilapidated housing, mock ups and exhibitions to convey the information in a clear and orderly manner. The venue is also furnished with interactive multimedia games to add fun and allow the public to gain a deeper understanding of the topics.
- Project Duration
- The project is commenced within one year. It is at H6 CONET located on the Ground Floor of The Center, Hong Kong.
- Operation Flow
- Smart technology inspires visitors to understand and approach urban renewal issues from various perspectives and digital media allows easy updates. A systematic introduction of seven urban renewal projects is arranged. To control the flow of information, it is installed with the iBeacon-enabled E-tour technology, by which visitors can hold an iPad to obtain automatically feeded information while following the designated route for the tour so they understand the topics step by step and inspire them to think about the future development of the city before the end of tour.
- Team Members
- Creative Director: Dennis Wong
Design Director: Dominic Kam
Project Coordination: Steve Leung
Interior Design: Dilys Cheung, Dior Ki, Choco Leung
Graphic Design: Eva Leung, Kai Cheng, Adrianne Chong
Multimedia: cccdi ltd. - Image Credits
- Photo Credits: Oval Design Ltd., 2017
Video Credits: Oval Design Ltd., 2017
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