DAT302 – St. Blazey

Our second project collaborating with the architects focused on the small Cornish town of St Blazey near St Austell and the Eden Project. Once a hub for mining, historically copper and tin but later china clay, this industry has mostly disappeared from the town.

The brief sought to create a community archive or museum with the design incorporating some interactive element. The architects worked on the design for the building as we developed the prototype. We came up with a wavy LED wall concept that would be built into one of the walls of the building. The wall would be used for democratic visualisations, with a question about the redevelopment of the town displayed on a screen and a touch screen voting interface. The display could also be used to visualise other elections and votes of interest around the world as well as other information all year round.

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