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Working with the Serum Institute of India: A Hydraulic Scale Model and Interactive Wall

Ashish Mahajan, Sparrow InteractiveJuly 20236 min read

When Adar Poonawalla's team at the Serum Institute of India invited us to help them tell the story of a new vaccine manufacturing facility, the brief asked for more than a model. They wanted visitors to see inside the building — into the rooms where the world's vaccines come together. We answered with a hydraulic scale model and a touch-controlled interactive wall.

Unveiling a Vision: The Hydraulic Scale Model

The model was engineered to open. Its hydraulic system lifts and parts the architecture to reveal the manufacturing halls within — an unhurried, theatrical gesture that lets a visitor read the facility as a whole and as a sequence of working rooms. Serum is the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world; the model was built to match that ambition, in precision and in scale.

Mid-cycle: the architecture opens to expose the interior.
A hydraulic scale model and touch-controlled interactive wall, built to showcase vaccine manufacturing excellence at the world's largest vaccine maker.
The interactive wall — visitors driving the narrative themselves.

A Shared Vision for Progress: The Prime Minister's Visit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi toured the facility and used the interactive wall to walk through the COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing process himself. Seeing the installation in the hands of a head of state — exploring, pausing, asking questions — was the moment our two disciplines, physical craft and digital interaction, were doing the work they were built to do.

A Testament to Ingenuity

The collaboration with Serum sits among the most meaningful in our practice. It taught us, again, that the strongest projects come out of a real partnership of intent — a client willing to invest in clarity, and a studio willing to invent the means to deliver it.