Location
- Malaysia
City
- Kuching | Sarawak
Duration
- 2013
Client
- –
Surface
- Site area
- : 150 m2
- Building area
- : 150 m2
- Building height
- : 1 storey
Status
- Concept
Project Type
- Special Projects
Themes
- Museum | Gallery
This is a proposed gallery designed to exhibit the life and work of Alfred Russell Wallace, whose theories about evolution predate Darwin’s. The gallery would be located in one wing of the Sarawak Museum and is intended to be temporary, lasting 2 – 3 years, targeting the general public, especially children. Our aim is to explore a different way of exhibiting the artifacts while considering educational intent, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness.
Wallace spent a significant portion of his life in Sarawak and made several important discoveries here. We drew inspiration from Alfred Wallace’s ‘moth nets’ — a device he rigged in the jungle using bedsheets hung like a three-sided room, with a hurricane lamp in the middle to attract insect specimens.
To pay homage to the man and create a prolonged journey through the relatively small space, we have constructed a series of rooms using his ‘moth nets.’ The displays will then be printed or mounted on the ‘walls,’ which can be made of actual fabric or some form of semi-rigid translucent panels.
Team Credits
Architect
- Design Network Architects Sdn Bhd
Design Team
- Wee Hii Min
- Louise Macul
- Lam Tuck Lone
Photography
- Lam Tuck Lone
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