The stunning new video wall at the Museum of Sydney is the latest of Total Concept Projects ’ city installations. Dramatically positioned in a central area of the ground floor, its dazzling presentations create a powerful visual impact.
“The new Museum video wall is an extraordinary display and has an impressive impact on visitors,” says spokesperson for the Museum and director of historic houses, Peter Watts. “It presents Sydney as a city built on, and built with, sandstone - a factor that gives Sydney its unique natural and architectural quality.”
TCP won the tender with an innovative design and project implementation program. The old video wall had to be overhauled, redesigned for new generation equipment and linked to an existing audio system.
After reading the tender documents and also attending site visits, TCP provided the Museum of Sydney with a turnkey solution. TCP would decommission the existing video wall and then design, supply and maintain a new rear projection wall based on a four screen display. This display was to show content developed by the Museum’s own production department and to be integated with their existing audio system.
The display was designed so that content was screened as one image spread over the four screens. Each screen displayed a separate section of the overall image. As the content is routinely produced on DVD, TCP had to design a control system with the ability to communicate with all four DVD players so that the master image remained synchronised at all times. The control system was programmable and user friendly for the Museum staff.
An additional functionality for the display system was the requirement for the bottom of the four screens to display a separate image from a fifth DVD player, auxiliary AV patch or auxiliary VGA patch. This is used by the Museum when it is open for special functions or other such events and a client may wish to display a different form of material.
Challenges facing the installation due to the delicate nature of the exhibits in the Museum, including minimising dust pollution in the general environment and restricting noise, as the Museum was open to the public during some of the building works.
Source: Building Products News.