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Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
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CHILDREN’S GALLERY ROYAL ALBERTAMUSEUM15.08.19 150819_RAM_CG_100PercDD_FINAL 2
AlbertaNaturally
Toddler Area
Museums101
Chautauqua
Alberta’s Maker
EntryExperience
Entrance
Welcome to the Children’s
Gallery
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REVISE & RESUBMIT
SIGNATURE / DATE
Project
- Design a new Children's Gallery for the Royal Alberta Museum.
The Children's Gallery is RAM's first gallery to be designed with their younger visitors in mind. Focusing on 0-8 year-old's, and their parents and caregviers, we developped a stimulating environment to house a place of great explorarion and interactivity.
Project Team: JoAnn Secor (Principal, Director of Museum Services), Scott W. Briggs AIA (Senior Associate, Museum Services, Project Manager), Roy Lorieo (Exhibit Designer)
Project Duration: 12 months (design), 6 months (fabrication and installation), to open Fall 2017.
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
CITIZENSHIP
SELF-REFLECTION
EMPATHY
Alberta’s Built Environment and
Infrastructure
Alberta’s Natural Environment and Natural
Phenomena
Alberta’s People, Culture and Icons
Activities
Museology
Arts & Creativity
How Things Work
Experience Criteria
Overarching themes:- Inspire young Albertans to be active,participatory citizens in their town orcommunity- Provide opportunities for youngvisitors to develop a sense ofempathy- Encourage visitors to reflect ontheir experience, using a variety ofmethods to document their visit
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
CHILDREN’S GALLERY ROYAL ALBERT
MUSEUM11/14/2014
Alberta’s Built Environment and Infrastructure
Alberta’s Natural Environment and Natural Phenomena
Alberta’s People, Culture and Icons
Concept DiagramExperience Criteria
Main Topics:• Alberta’s People, Culture and Icons• Alberta’s Natural Environment andNatural Phenomena• Alberta’s Built Environment andInfrastructure
We chose to weave the three topics together, across the gallery rather than have separate stations for each topic. This concept diagram was an initial study on how the three topics could work together to build an integrated story.
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Look and Feel
The client is inspired by the Reggio Emelia teaching method. We found the bright and open environments of the typical Reggio classroom to be a good inspiration. They are not afraid of a little chaos in the name of discuovery. The Reggio philosophy uses many sortable loose parts and pieces in it stheory. We looked to design a space that encoraged discovery and innovation.
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Look and Feel
For this gallery, we did not want to make any fake experiences. If something could not be brought into the gallery, then it would be represented in a stylsitic manner. We chose to use natural materials with exposed grain and texture, instead of fiberglas and plastic.
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Gallery Overview
- 5920 sq ft
The gallery is made up of two rooms. The entrance is a double-height space, while the rear area is dropped down to
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Entrance
As you enter the Children's Gallery, you are given a chance to collect yourself. There is a large map, to explain how the gallery relates to the province as a while. There is also a display case which represents the gallery's manifesto on play and learning.
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Alberta Naturally
The Alberta Naturally Section is modelled after the natural and man-made aspects of Alberta. The main room of the gallery is dominated by two mountain ranges. Patterend after the Canadian Rockies. Some of the other highlights are a 3-story tall grain elevator, a forest and the Dig Pit area.
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Wind Wall
Once the visitor travels through the mountains and up the ramp, she will arrive at the controls for the Wind Wall. Inspired by installation artist Ned Kahn, this interactive shows wind currents as they flow across a field of wind chimes.
Right: an existing wind current installation.
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Northern Lights
At the top of the ramp, visitors will also encounter an interactive that explains how the aurora borrealis works. Dials and sliders will change the lighting effects of an LED curtain to simulate the northern lights.
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Forest Explorers
In the forest, visitors will find animal tracks, sounds and smells. All clues to the different animals that can be found in Alberta's forests. There is also a Forest sounds symphony wall that will allow visitors to compose there own sounds of the forest.
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Dig Pit
This area will sometimes house an archeological interactive. There will be tools for excavating and measuring, whatever visitors uncover. A stratigraphy display in The surrounding walls will hold artifacts that scientists have uncovered from local digs.
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Toddler Area
Knowing there are special needs for the youngest visiors (0 to 3-years-old) we designed an area just for them. Before entering, you will leave your shoes in a low-wall with historical artifacts that have been used in exploration. Above the Toddler Area is a constellation themed mobile that will tell the story of what native peoples see when they look at the stars.
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Museums 101
A gallery within a gallery, Museums 101 will be hold temporary exhibits with content culled from the local community and curated by the museum staff. The first exhibit will be how the new museum was built.
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Chautauqua
A Chautauqua was a turn of the 20th centruy community event. Like circus of religious revival, a temporary structure would be setup to house presentations on new technologies and ideas.
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Chautauqua
This Chautauqua will be a programming space for story time ...
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Chautauqua
... or party time!
Roy Lorieorlorieo@hotmail.com
Royal Alberta Museum - Children's Gallery
C: 646-245-2749
Alberta's Makers
The maker space will be a place to build, take apart, and make some thing new again and again. Hopefully young visitors will return to the Children's Gallery every few weeks to foster a particapitory community of empathetic young people who reflect on their experiences at the museum and out in the world.
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