barrett center installation

Personally having a primary focus on audio I think having an interactive audio piece by the first stairwell would make for an interesting and unobstructed experience.

A projector mounted to the ceiling would cast a caustic water effect onto the floor to emulate the sea floor. Also attatched to the ceiling would be a motion sensor/Kinect to track where people are walking. Mounted to the walls at a lower height would be 6 to 8 surrounding speakers that play low end undersea rumbling. When the Kinect senses a participants movement, it determines where they are in the space and tells which of the array of speakers to play an underwater thrust/splashing noise at a certain volume. This ideally would audibly recreate a scenario of someone swimming through the base floor of the stairwell. The surround sound speaker setup would create a binaural like experience.