Currently a design student at California State University, Long Beach, Lindsay Sienkiewich sent M.E. these images of her latest project - an interactive exhibition space and research centre.
Her concept designs for this exhibit aims to inform visitors about climate change and global warming by a process of encapsulating them in a recreated environment. What we particularly like is the floor plan for the project, which Sienkiewich designed as a representation of the world map. Each exhibit within the space is representative of a continent or a specific country within a continent and the visitor travels through the space by following a digital waterway that represents oceanic currents.
The visitor also passes through a through a series of environments; such as graduating iceberg-like 3form walls, (these graduating icebergs are representative of the size Antarctica was, is, and will be, due to global climate change) embedded with information about the main effects of the melting of polar ice caps; and a coral wall, explaining the depletion of South Pacific coral reefs. The exhibit is completed with an interactive touch tank and a coral wall that represents healthy coral deteriorating into a hard skeletal structure.
Whilst education is the primary goal of this design, Sienkiewich made sure recreation is not forgotten as the patio contains a fire pit lounge area with a sand floor which captures the beach bonfire feel with sophistication. This area is open to visitors during the day, and acts as part of an event space at night.
