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Suzhou Drainage Museum Exhibition Hall by Whale Rider Architecture Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Whale Rider Architecture recognized for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Suzhou Drainage Museum Exhibition Hall by Whale Rider Architecture, designed for Suzhou Drainage Co., Ltd. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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.
Regarding Suzhou Drainage Museum Exhibition Hall
Suzhou Drainage Museum is a science museum about sewage treatment, designed with a submarine theme. The interior combines the forms of modern treatment equipment with cockpits, portholes and pipes. Clear circulation routes guide visitors through the stages of water purification, which include precipitation, filtration, adsorption, deep treatment and disinfection. Multimedia devices and hands-on activity areas replace passive presentation. Environmentally friendly materials create a simple and modern visual effect. The museum aims to raise ecological awareness through immersive learning.
About Whale Rider Architecture
WhaleRider Architecture is founded in 2016 and located in Suzhou Dushu Lake Higher Education Town. As a construction company focusing on the space creation for ideal experience, WhaleRider Architecture, around key projects of headquarters enterprises, gives full consideration to the design and construction abilities in multiple dimensions like brand experience, display or reception space and office space, to create an integrated systematic solution for the whole cycle. WhaleRider Architecture views its mission in life as building unique individuality with profound influence.
Award Record
With this recognition, Whale Rider Architecture is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/144029
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/144029
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!144029
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/335586
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://whalerider.cn
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Suzhou Drainage Museum Exhibition Hall
- Function
- Exhibition Hall
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Light Gray, Light Slate Gray, Royal Blue and Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Suzhou Drainage Co., Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Whale Rider Architecture
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #144029
Credits
- Team
- Bifeng Li, Wenjing Lu, Kaili Hu, Dalian Liu, Chao Shi, Yubao Fan, Yuan Sun and Han Zhang
Design Details
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Realization and 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.
- Operation and Interaction
- 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.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project design lasted from June 10 to September 18, 2021. And the science museum is located near Shihu Bridge in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.
- Specifications
- 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.
- Keywords
- Popular Science Education, Ecological Protection, Immersive Experience, Multiple Interaction Modes, Edutainment
