Soften the climate museum’s aggressive industrial theme with colorful panels and lights

Soften the climate museum’s aggressive industrial theme with colorful panels and lights,

The rugged industrial interiors are enhanced with colorful informative panels

and custom lights for a climate museum designed by Istanbul-based architecture firm do[x]architecture.

It is called Ghazhan Museum – Climate Museum, and it is a complex of 1030 square meters,

and It is located in Hasanpasa, Kadikoy – a residential neighborhood on Istanbul’s Asian shore in Istanbul, Turkey.

It was converted from a former gas works factory – known as Hasan Pasha Ghazhan which was built in 1892.

To meet the energy needs of the Anatolian side.

Since the plant could not meet current needs and the use of natural gas became widespread,

the factory complex was abandoned in 1993.

After 130 years, in 2021, it was decided to reuse the factory as a public space under the name Ghazhan Museum.

do[x]architecture, led by Dicle B. Özdemir ve Kadir Uyanık, was appointed

To transform the interiors of the two former factory buildings,

which were used as gas refining facilities, into a permanent gallery and museum.

Design features

The studio was responsible for designing the scenography, museum and display buildings.

The Climate Museum program is spread across two buildings of the Ghazhan Museum complex:

Climate Museum I and Climate Museum II.

Ghazhan Museum – Climate Museum was officially opened to the public in April this year.

With the aim of addressing climate change, the theme of the museum has been set under the title “Climate Crisis”.

Focusing on the urgent needs of the climate crisis and its impacts.

While the studio pays homage to the buildings’ raw industrial character,

the interiors have been enriched with colorful, informative panels.

Suspended on continuous metal tube sections, with custom lighting as well as interactive objects to “make the museum experience more accessible and inclusive”. “.

Colorful lighting in the interiors makes the industrial look of the building more prominent and attractive.

In the buildings of the Hassan Pasha Ghazan Museum, gas plants that produce energy from fossil fuels (coal),

It is a climate museum, which explores the climate crisis,

the natural and man-made causes of the crisis along with its devastating consequences.

Spread over two buildings in total, the exhibition focuses on the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels

(coal, oil and natural gas) with the Industrial Revolution and the place of Ghazhan,

It is the factory structure, in the process and creates the basis for its own criticism.”

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