Urban Media Table
The National Building museum
The Urban Media Table is an LED installation built in TouchDesigner for the National Building Museum in Washington DC. It consists of 11 acrylic skylines lit underneath by LED strips and four screens set into the table to tell the story of city data and its effects on population, health, and urban life. This installation was an interesting combination of large amounts of data, specialized LED hardware, and design and physical fabrication.
There was a lot of prototyping that went into this project as well. We tested a few sets of LEDs in combination with different fabrications and materials of the skylines to ensure we achieved the appropriate visual effect. We examined everything from LED color to how readable the data would be through the skylines and LEDs.
