• Immersive Art experience;

• 27no. creative environments;

• Major Bristol attraction

• End-user-led M&E services designs

Wake The Tiger is an immersive art experience consisting of 27 different creative environments including artwork, installations, narrative, soundscape, secret passageways and so much more.

Box Twenty were involved in this exciting immersive art experience from conceptual stage through to detailed design & Contractor appointment working directly for the Client.

The services solutions we proposed needed to be creative & innovative in order to provide suitable internal environmental conditions, whilst seamlessly coordinating with the 27no. differently-themed creative environments that make up this immersive art experience.

As all rooms were completely different, then bespoke services solutions needed to be proposed. To add further complexities, the art installations were being completed in some rooms before the services installations had been designed due to funding pressures.

We proposed initial heating & ventilation strategies at an early stage of design which considered MVHR ducted systems with high-efficiency heat recovery for fresh air & wet radiant panel systems for heating to ensure we had enough fresh air for the visitors, whilst tempering the thermal environment sufficiently to make them comfortable.

Radiant panels fed by highly-efficient air-source heat pumps were proposed as many of the spaces were high, whereas the visitors would all be at floor level. In this way we could warm the visitors within the room without conditioning the whole volume of the space, thus our solution would not use as much energy to provide this comfort as would have been the case with alternative, more conventional heating systems.

We also proposed a significant PV array to generate electricity & reduce fuel bills as much of the development was moved across to electricity-driven.