Looking around the Stonehouse area we have decided to go with working mainly upon Union Street, this area has a grand history originally one of the main, and richest parts of Plymouth.
The area has now fallen greatly, becoming a main area for anti-social behavior, such as drinking, gambling and also strip clubs. With this the history of the area has been all but lost, with our project we hope to revitalise Stonehouse and bring back much of its former grandour. Buildings such as Malthouse and Dance Academy have been uninhabited (other than by homeless people) for many years and have little hope of referbishment. The Dance Academy is actually a Victorian listed building, and is on the list of most in danger listed buildings in the UK.
In areas where the old buildings have gotten into such a bad condition they had to be pulled down there has been no new development as the area is so undesireable. These areas have been left clear for so long that they have in fact started to grow trees and shrubary.


This is very ironic as the growth is there as a direct cause of the lack of archutectural and cultural growth on union street.
I feel that greenery would actually benifit the area and possibly instead of keeping these dead zones closed off, they should be cleaned up, replanted and opened up, creating a small park for the area.
The group has decided to go with the idea of projections on buildings as our idea. We feel that projecting '3D' images of Stonehouses history on new buildings will help renovate the area. The light it will produce will make people want to visit the area and stop when passing through to view the illuminations.

Below is a video which shows the sort of projections I feel the group would like to get, whilst they may not be actual projections and instead made in a program like After Effects I believe the idea is achievable.

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.