Museum of science and modern technology

Project idea

This project is a rethinking of the museum in modern realities. This is not a traditional museum, this is not a virtual museum - it's a museum on the edge of reality, museum of transition type. Museum's exhibits it's models of real objects in augmented reality.

Project description

The museum as a building for inspection of the exhibits remains, however the exhibits themselves move into virtual space. The need for a museum of this type is due to the insufficient prevalence of virtual reality technologies to date. But as the technology spreads, the museum will gradually move into a new virtual world, and the research part of the museum will develop the function of digitizing the studied exhibits to prepare them for the virtual exhibition.
Such a typology makes it possible to develop more cooperation between different museums, simplifying the access of users to the world cultural heritage. The research section provides assistance to nearby museums in the digitization of exhibits, and various projects with museums from other regions or even countries get rid of the need to transport exhibits over long distances. To organize the exposition, you only need to send the model of the exhibit.
Museum's exhibits it's models of real objects in augmented reality. This allows you to display exhibits from museums around the world. In the underground is located a transformable hall for helmets of virtual reality. The museum also has a laboratory for digitizing exhibits. The entrance to the halls is located under the road ring in the underpass.
The process of shaping the museum was divided into several stages. An alien element - a spherical object resembling a drop of mercury - cuts into the existing stable environment represented by the power transmission towers, various structures. The shock wave repels all nearby objects from the epicenter of the collision. However, the object itself, as it were, gets stuck in the wires between the supports, gradually changing. In this change, a new character of the object is traced, since it has the properties of a liquid and varies with the surface tension of the shell. At the last stage, new properties of the existing object appear: the medium begins to change, because the object has changed the spacetime. This form is closely intertwined with the scientific orientation of the museum, as it uses several laws of physics, giving them a more explicit character.
The amorphous cocoon of the halls is suspended on the cables to three inclined lattice supports that mimic the supports of the power lines located nearby. The outer contour is lined with mirror glass, the inner contour is lined with panels of white acrylic stone.

Technical information

Total area: 1924 sq. m
Exhibition area: 1200 sq. m
Height: 25 m.
Depth: 4.5 m
Land area: 1.5 ha