Memory Bank Concept

Memory Bank is a dome based structure to be placed along the Sony Park site that serves as a physical time capsule housing the moments and memories of the people who visit it through a process of recording and viewing. The dome houses an exterior camera system in which visitors can stand, with the city as their back- ground, and create a recording of themselves speaking into the camera and addressing who they are or what- ever information they may choose. The interior of the dome houses a tablet-based interface which controls a projection mapping system allowing the user to search and view recordings that they or someone else may have recorded at the Memory Bank in the past. For example, if an individual visits the Memory Bank during a family vacation with their parents they may make a recording of this experience on the exterior camera and save it to the Bank’s hard drive. Over time that individual may come back to Tokyo alone and have the ability to watch the footage they recorded in the past in the same exact space they were standing with their loved one’s years prior. Or perhaps an individual wasn’t able to participate in the first recording but a loved one recorded there in the past. That individual can now see the exact thing their loved one did and stand in the same space in which they once stood. In an ever-evolving city, we yearn to both create new experiences as well as relive those we’ve had in the past. Memory Bank allows the user to see themselves and others in the city of the past, overlaid with that of the present. Memory Bank serves as a liaison of both past and present, of individual and city, and of memory and reality. Interior Tablet-based Searching/Viewing Interface Users select past recordings with from various tablets within the structure chose which recordings to display