Water City

Chicago Children's Museum

Working alongside other designers, fabricators and engineers, I helped to design and develop the Water City exhibit at the Chicago Children's Museum

In the new Water City experience, children of all ages and abilities create their own experiments, narratives, sensory experiences, and explorations of the physical properties of water under Chicago’s iconic skyline. Created to replace a well-loved water exhibit that had been in use since the museum’s opening more than 25 years ago, Water City uses the Chicago skyline to create a unique sense of place. Water flows around Buckingham Fountain, the Navy Pier, and Willis Tower through three legs that mimic the three branches of the Chicago River. All elements of Water City were prototyped, fabricated, and tested at Roto to ensure materials functioned as they were intended, spinning freely, hitting their water targets, playing music, and activating weather activities like fog and rain

As a production designer, I supported the design and fabrication of the structures through the development of detailed shop drawings, CNC cut files, and 3D Solidworks models that were used to fabricate and build the exhibit.