Suzhou Drainage Museum

Exhibition Hall for Suzhou Drainage Co., Ltd

This is a sewage treatment science museum designed with the theme of submarine. Via the innovative design of moving lines, space layout and multimedia technology, it sheds the dull mode of science popularization applied in traditional science museums, and allows visitors to experience immersive exploration in a joyful and scientific way. It provides visitors with multiple interactive experiences to activate their interest in learning, and combines the progressive education process with the immersive experience of edutainment so as to raise their awareness of ecological environment protection.

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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.

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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.

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.

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 Overview

Suzhou Drainage Museum Exhibition Hall has been a Bronze winner in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design award category in the year 2022 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

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Bronze Recognition

WhaleRider Architecture was recognized with the coveted Bronze A' Design Award in 2023, a testament to excellence of their work Suzhou Drainage Museum Exhibition Hall.

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WhaleRider Architecture unveils the innovative submarine-themed sewage treatment science museum near Shihu Bridge in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, offering an immersive and joyful exploration of environmental protection through edutainment.

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