Rooms
Through
Time

Museum of The Home

Our Role

Lighting

Taking our inspiration from nature and Hackney’s storied history we created a vibrant, homely and welcoming environment.

Interactive

Typeone Realities, our mixed reality show control system was used to create an integrated immersive journey in which every interaction tells a unique story.

Content

We used real stories, histories and local knowledge to add humour, life and colour to Rooms Through Time.

Roots & Clouds

The ‘Introduction Room’ is a virtual reality screening space and is currently showing the preview of our immersive film Roots & Clouds.

Roots and Clouds explores Hackney and surrounding boroughs, catching glimpses of and hearing snippets from inhabitants who are old, young, transient, returning and lifelong.

Sometimes it seems like London grew from the ground, like a great gnarled Oak, sprawling and scarred. It didn’t, of course, it was built by people from all over the world, Londoners like you and me; but, there is something, almost uniquely organic about its form.

Enveloped in a world made from point cloud particles, on first glance they are galactic, they solidify into people, and shapes, places which all of a sudden feel very familiar then disperse, fractal-like, like each particle it’s own story.

Lighting
the Street

Throughout our interpretation we wanted to create ‘outside moments’, nature as ever is intertwined with London life, light and shadow evoke magical memories of sunny days and the contrasts give gentle reminders of the comforts of home.

The low slung geometric ceiling soffit of the Branson Coates wing provided the perfect architectural canvas for our nature inspired lighting.

Reimaging the triangular panels as windows we created a chromatic responsive light sculpture.

A gentle comforting patter of rain can be heard as pixel drops ripple above your head at the entrance to the wing, and the large skylight like curve cloud light responds to the season welcoming people in.

Room
Lighting

Within the rooms our vision was clear, lighting should be used to recreate a sense of homeliness and match the authenticity of the curator’s interiors.

To accomplish this we used period and practical lighting wherever possible, including retrofitted and renovated period fixtures and custom features.

Physical
Interactives

Our physical interactives bring an element of playfulness to the gallery, activating sounds and stories around the space creates an atmosphere of authenticity unachivable any other way.

Each interactive is also an element in the story of audio visual and communications technology developent and it’s relationship to our daily lives.

Radiogram

A retrofitted period Radiogram, where you can play original vinyl using RFID.

2000s PC

Surf the web from 2005 and play some classic games.

Intercom

Hear from the eclectic residents of Raynham estate as you navigate a tower block door entry system trying to remember your new friend’s address.

70s TV

Relax on the sofa and catch up with some classic Black British telly on the family set.

1950s Radio

Tune in this retrofitted analog radio to hear music of the time and first hand migration stories.

Karaoke

Family entertainment at its finest. Sing your heart out to a backdrop of magnificent Viet scenery.

Tin Bath

Shower in stories of bathing in a 1910s East End Tenement; elevated motion activated bathtub.

Windows

Building on the concept of outside moments, we wanted to bring a feeling of ‘natural lighting’ to our design wherever possible, using ‘sun beams’, shadows, translucent materials and custom light box windows.

Our animated AV windows bring colour and texture to the rooms and also tell a story of waves of construction in London.

Immersive Audio

Just like a familiar scent can trigger nostalgia, a familiar sound can transport you back in time, we wanted each era of the Rooms Through Time exhibition to have it’s own evocative audio signature.

As you wander, experience a tapestry of audio woven from oral histories, local voices, household foley, London wildlife recordings, period music and bespoke sound design.

Street Animals AR

Responding to the exhibition’s core theme of migration, Street Animals tells the story of some of London’s most recognizable wildlife and adds a virtual layer of nature to the Branson Coates Street.

Starring Anna-Maria Nabirye, Sarah Thom and Divian Ladwa. Follow Lucky the parakeet and Fennie the Fox on their journeys to emancipation; immersive audio, augmented reality and syncronized projections.