West Augmentation

Suggested to Studio Above and Below, daria@studioaboveandbelow.com, <perry@studioaboveandbelow.com>

The view from the William Gates building, once a peaceful meadow where horses from the Vet School grazed, has become an ugly building site. The public exhibition for this year’s group design projects will look out at this. Your task is to create an augmented reality viewer for visitors to explore an alternative to the industrial design of modern universities. They should be able to toggle between a visualisation of the actual planned buildings, and an alternative featuring “tree tenants” as proposed by Hundertwasser, urban farming, wildlife sanctuary, and more radical environmental features. Visitors should be able to interact from the viewing area via multiple linked devices, including mobiles, large screens, projectors and VR headsets.