Sensory Museum 03

Task 3d: Final Scheme

The Gap Musuem

: an institutional building, a museum to exhibit the story of Indian Immigrants in Malaysia. Their coming, how they being treated, and how they bloom and create their own culture.

Reception Area Workshop Area

To recreate the interior of the steamship to allow visitors to experience the feelings while Indian immigrants travel to Malaysia. Dark, foggy, shaky, with the sound of sea wave and the touches of rough timber and steel just like the feeling of taking steamship.

Dark and foggy. Round steamship window with weak lighting panel behind exhibiting the actual pictures of history.

The sound of wind and waves while traveling on the sea.

Immersive Walkway

Rough timber and steel bringing in the touches of rough and cool surface. Instable/ wavy feeling while steeping on the floor.

To exhibit the actual history by showing the actual history pictures, and there will be a focus point speaker on every point to allow visitor listen to the sound guide, there will just focus on the visitor who standing under, so as not to interrupt other visitors. The environment will be dark, but will be brighter compare to the walkway.

Dark, the wall exhibiting the actual pictures of history. Sound guide on every history point.

To show the actual history document by using a interactive way. Visitors will be ask to take an earphone provided by museum, and connect to their phone. And they can scan the QR code on the wall and listen to the story. Other than that, the display cases are use to recreate the work experience, the gloves allow visitors to touch and feel the things inside the display case

Bright, the wall exhibiting the actual documents of history. Sound guide on every history point

A lotus installation in the middle of the double volume ceiling, to represent the "Bloom". There will be a 360 degree digital exhibition area projecting the artwork by Monet, which is lotus. There will also exhibiting the saree fabric representing the blooming of Indian culture.