Science South is now handed over to the client and open to the public. We are still working with the client to help things running > billboards, advertisements, flyers postcards have to be designed.
Together with our partners from ZINC Projects we are in the design development process for the next step of ScienceSouth (see “projects design” category “ScienceSouth Phase III”).
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Lynches River County Park Environmental Discovery Center (EDC) opened Friday Feb. 22, 2008 with praise from the Effingham community, South Carolina business leaders and elected officials.
Plans developed together with ZINC Projects include the Environmental Discovery Center and the Tree Top Canopy Walk. The center also will feature a various educational designed to encourage people to become “Naturalists” as a means to stimulate lifelong learning.
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Lynches River County Park Environmental Discovery Center is nestled along the cypress and water tupelo along the scenic Lynches River. It features a canopy walk suspended over the wetlands approaching the river. The 250-squared-meter (2700-sq.-ft.) EDC houses a Nature Lab, Veranda Observatory and Briefing Room. Each is equipped with tools and equipment to facilitate citizen science: the ongoing monitoring of the park ecosystems and environment. EDC Coordinator Teresa Simons commented that “visitors will observe, measure and experience nature for themselves.” The center’s Briefing Room has real time environmental monitoring of soil, air, and water and weather conditions.
The 328-ft. canopy walk is a combination of ground-supported walkway, tree-supported observation platforms and cable-supported bridges, starting from the platform of EDC Veranda Observatory.
Lake City native, national business leader and philanthropist Darla Moore said: “Today, we celebrate the opening of this incredible environmental discovery center right in the middle of our own rural Pee Dee region.” Moore congratulated the EDC Steering Committee for the realization of their vision and commented on the importance of public and private partnerships to enact economic change in the region. She also complimented the architecture and design of the center which re-used siding and flooring from a soon to be destroyed century old tobacco barn.
Artists Impression Phase III © 2007 Claus Lämmle
“Wire Model Phase III” © BNY Architects
In spring 2008 ScienceSouth will open the Phase II temporary facility on site. It will enable the organization to introduce on-site family and community programs. Currently wa are working for an operating and business plan for Phase Three, a 66,000 square foot facility “ScienceSouth Center”.
Illustrationen zur Visualisierung des Gesamtprojekts. Auftraggeber ScienceSouth Board, Florence South Carolina. Wir arbeiten zur Zeit gemeinsam mit ZINC Projects am “detailed design development” für das Center, das ca. 2010 eröffnet werden soll.
That is why design, scenography, film, photography and painting are gathered on our palette.
Generally, design in exhibitions is thought that humans receive meaningful information, after their brain receives stimulus from the environment. In fact, however, information exists in the environment itself. In other words, our perception and recognition are activities to get information directly from the environment, not creating the information in the brain.
When we recognize something, we search it from the environment. And the environment is the place where ‘information’ of ‘continuation and changes’ exists, not the place where stimulus which will not have any meaning unless processed in the brain, inhabits. Recognition is not what we are forced to receive; it is what we try to get and discover. We perceive most of the things by the brain and not by the eyes.
When we were children, everyday was full of discovery. We were actively looking at things and not passively. Sketched scene upon travelling, small world in a microscope, favourite toys, someone you like… You had surprises and discoveries more than just perceiving things. “If you look carefully…” you’ll see, that there are many surprises and discoveries in our surroundings. Nothing is the same as yesterday, neither your room, nor the roads you take, streets you stroll…We now live in a world of abundance.
Therefore, we tend to lose vision of the future since people’s values have been diversified. Our modern society produces both ignorance and arrogance. We think design will help us appreciate various stimuli and discovery in living daily life. We have to propose infinity and possibilities, we have to engage people´s brains.
We would like to propose a new direction of design: from seeing things passively to looking things actively.Design, we think, is not just shape, colour or function, or even the combination of these, but is a concept which directly connects to one’s subconscious. A human being will become mentally affluent if design is embedded in space, objects, and all the creatures on earth, allowing us to realize the real significance of design in daily life. We believe that, in a word, design is “attachment”, and its higher concept is stimulus and discoveries.
So, if we, the designers create surprising environments where people’s natural (hidden) capability of discovery will be stimulated, we will force them to see with their brains – in other words: not just seeing but receiving and processing information, given by the entire environment.
However, we strongly believe in the power of “full spectrum impact” in order to make the visitors experience unique.
What we want, is the most intuitive, sensitive, and creative communication between senders and receivers – finding a keyword to the fascinations, the wonderings and all the mysteries in life. People will be stimulated, and be given new ideas, feelings and enjoyment. Design sometimes has more impact than any words. If people are inspired by it, design serves real purpose. Scenography, in its sensorial and creative apprehension, is today, more than ever before, fundamental and essential if we want to establish a viable connection with science in general and with technology in particular. Educational valid metaphoric statements grow organically out of the entire visual and auditory world of an exhibition. Bueroplasz (Machen ist Wissen)
Logo and corporate identity development for ontarioheli, sudbury, canada
Im Rohbau: Die nach unseren Spezifikationen geplante Innenraumstruktur des neuen Centers. Umgesetzt vor Ort von einem lokalen Planungsbüro, das die Ausführung, Konstuktion und Bauüberwachung übernommen hat.
Visitors to Lynches River County Park will soon enjoy stimulating “hands-in” experiences, at the Environmental Discovery Center which is now set to open in early 2008.
Lynches River Park offers people the unique opportunity for meaningful discovery in their own backyard. Visitors to Lynches River will enjoy stimulating “hands-in” experiences, which will set apart from more common park experiences. They will explore nature where it is, rather than read about models and artifacts from nature. They will use tools to explore actual natural artifacts and processes closely and intimately where they occur. Intimate and up-close encounters with nature will inspire visitors of all ages to act as scientists: to observe, to explore, to record, to compare, to appreciate and most importantly to carry their excitement and new knowledge into their everyday lives. And it is the unique nature of these experiences that will put Lynches River Park “on the map!”
Illustrationen zur Visualisierung der “Lern-Plattformen” – Konzeption eines Science Centers.
Picture: aerial photography Nov. 2007 (© ontarioheli.com)
ScienceSouth, Florence South Carolina, USA. In the spring of 2008 ScienceSouth will launch family based science and technology programs for the Pee Dee region. To achieve this, ScienceSouth is constructing a 5,000 square foot flexible-use facility on the Jeffries Creek site. This facility will also serve as the base for ScienceSouth’s growing outreach programs: ScienceSouth on Wheels.
A high-tech, tent like insulated textile membrane structure is currently under construction. It will enable the organization to introduce on-site family and community programs and test the operating and business plan for Phase Three, a 66,000 square foot facility “ScienceSouth Center”.
Design development Phase II: © 2007 Claus Lämmle
Schnelle Skizzen: Visualisierung des Konzepts für Einzelbereiche eines Science Center Projekts. Die Skizzen dienten nur als Diskussionsgrundlage.
1. Darstellung der räumlichen Systematik der einzelnen Bereiche
2. Lobby und zentraler Eingangsbereich
3. Aussenbereiche Café
4. Wandbild im Erlebnisbereich für “Kinder von 2-8”
Von François Confino aus Lussan, Frankreich, der die Gesamtkonzeption des Audi Pavillons entwarf, erhielten wir den Auftrag für das Styling und Graphik Design in den Räumlichkeiten. Wir entwickelten die Geschichte von Max und Clara (den virtuellen Bewohnern des Pavillons) weiter, indem wir behutsam und beinahe unauffällig ihre Spuren in das Ambiente einbrachten.
Clara´s Negligé, das wie zufällig auf dem Bett liegt gehörte genauso dazu, wie eine kleine “Post-it” Nachricht, die Max auf der Türe des Kühlschranks klebte.
