People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum

People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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PEOPLE’S PARK - INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION FOR GUANGDONG TIMES MUSEUM

Turtlehill Design

INTERIOR DESIGNERS
TURTLEHILL DESIGN

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Jason Guo, Jiayu Zeng

CLIENTS
Guangdong Times Museum

DESIGN TEAM
Whyatt Zhengwei He, Flora Feiran Wang, Charlie Hongyi Cao, Zhiqing Mo, Jiapei Luo

MANUFACTURERS
Lg Hi-macs, Yosida, 丰胜花园木

PHOTOGRAPHS
Kenton Leung

AREA
145 M²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Guangzhou, China

CATEGORY
Pavilion

Having been operated for nearly 9 years, the Guangdong Times Museum launched its upgrade project.

People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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Turtlehill Design was invited to redesign the balcony space.

The Guangdong Times Museum, designed by Rem Koolhaas is located at the rooftop of a residential building in Guangzhou China.

People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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The balcony is next to the lift lobby and in front of the main exhibition hall.

As per Museum’s initial plan, the existing glass house would be removed and replaced by a souvenir shop and VIP tea house.

People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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According to the brief, we proposed a set of horizontal shifting blocks linked by a winding circulation.

However, while this design was approved and ready to build, the museum came up with a new idea of “people’s park”where visitors could be sitting, lying, holding party, having picnic and etc.

People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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Everyone has right to use the space in his/her own way.

This idea is revolutionary. The initial design is no longer compatible and has to be reconsidered.

People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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After discussions, we found a transformable installation could answer to the “people’s park”idea.

We devised a unit of blocks installed with tracks and wheels which enable them to slide independently in X and Y directions. Just like Lego toys,these units could be pushed around and interlocked with each other to compose forms as visitor’s wish.

People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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Hence, the right of using and composing the space is completely handed to the visitors.

The “people’s park”installation has become one of the most popular places of the museum.As a prototype of possibilities, it has potentials to be developed and applied to numerous scenarios.

People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
Possible Combination A Plan
People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
Possible Combination B Plan


People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
South Elevation
People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
East Elevation


People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
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People’s Park - Interactive Installation For Guangdong Times Museum
Possible Combination C Plan