A 30-foot-high tower was designed and created to greet visitors to Columbia, South Carolina’s EdVenture Children’s Museum. Featuring numerous recycled materials in its construction, The Energy Tower has two levels of interactive exhibits that focus on green energy generation as well as conservation. The Tower has served as the ideal welcome piece for the Museum’s 67,000 square feet of interactive and educational exhibit space.
PROJECT DETAILS
Project: EdVenture Energy Tower
Designer: ThemeWorks, Inc.
Client: EdVenture Children’s Museum
Size: 30′ (9.14 m) in height
Photography: LeGrand Photography
Scope of Work: ThemeWorks provided complete turnkey design-build services for the interactive packed EdVenture Energy Tower. Starting with schematic design, our team was responsible for the structure, decking, interior lighting, green energy interpretive exhibits featuring a wind turbine and solar panel, an energy conservation exhibit that demonstrated the differences in energy consumption of incandescent and fluorescent light sources, wall panels showcasing a variety of recycled and recyclable materials, an interactive station demonstrating the heat gain of various roofing materials, a themed “atom” whirl-a-gig, a weather monitoring station and a spiral slide to transport guests back to ground level from the upper section of the tower.