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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center
Seattle, WA, United States
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center
Seattle, WA, United States
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2012
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
The vision behind the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center is to educate, inspire, and motivate people through storytelling—sharing the work of others who are focused on improving the lives of people around the globe. Through interactive exhibits, visitors can investigate some of the challenges facing the world, learn how people are tackling those problems, and explore their own ideas and solutions to challenges that matter to them.
Inside, a series of five galleries lead the visitor through an exploration of the foundation’s history and interactive investigations (mechanical and digital) designed to inspire action: the galleries include the Voices Gallery, Family & Foundation Gallery, Partnerships Gallery, a theater, and the Innovation & Inspiration Gallery.
The galleries and exhibits are organized through a system of large, free-standing steel armatures; exhibits plug into the armature framework unifying the aesthetic throughout the exhibit and facilitating the potential for future change.
Each gallery tells a chapter of the foundation’s story through hands-on experiences. In the Family & Foundation gallery an interactive time line describes efforts to date, with a portion left blank for future endeavors. Visitors can also spin a wooden globe to see the foundation’s geographical reach appear on a digital world map. They can even design their own foundations: they type in ideas, which are then displayed on a digital wall as permanent part of the exhibition.
By integrating a hierarchy of scale, space and material into the exhibits, the design brings dimensionality and attention to the many people and partners touched by the foundation in discrete, easily understood segments. With an emphasis on ideas—the design seeks to create a personal relationship between the visitor and the mission and work of the foundation and those it supports.
Inside, a series of five galleries lead the visitor through an exploration of the foundation’s history and interactive investigations (mechanical and digital) designed to inspire action: the galleries include the Voices Gallery, Family & Foundation Gallery, Partnerships Gallery, a theater, and the Innovation & Inspiration Gallery.
The galleries and exhibits are organized through a system of large, free-standing steel armatures; exhibits plug into the armature framework unifying the aesthetic throughout the exhibit and facilitating the potential for future change.
Each gallery tells a chapter of the foundation’s story through hands-on experiences. In the Family & Foundation gallery an interactive time line describes efforts to date, with a portion left blank for future endeavors. Visitors can also spin a wooden globe to see the foundation’s geographical reach appear on a digital world map. They can even design their own foundations: they type in ideas, which are then displayed on a digital wall as permanent part of the exhibition.
By integrating a hierarchy of scale, space and material into the exhibits, the design brings dimensionality and attention to the many people and partners touched by the foundation in discrete, easily understood segments. With an emphasis on ideas—the design seeks to create a personal relationship between the visitor and the mission and work of the foundation and those it supports.
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