Deer Park Alpha

Portsmouth, UK: This is our recent proposal for illuminating the entrance to Portsmouth City Centre.

Light Rain: A shower of light greets motorists as they enter the centre of Portsmouth. Like gentle fireworks, a wave of light passes through the LED strips. All the strips are randomly timed and as a whole seem to produce a rain of soft light….

Market way as it is now: An anonymous roundabout with nothing to let you know you are at the heart of a major city. Disused shops signal decay and neglect.

Market way as it could be: Twilight heralds the start of the light display as the ‘rain’ mingles with the dusk – an exciting start to the night in Portsmouth.

A similar project has met with great success in Caen – a precedent which allows us confidence in the technology and viability of the project.

Download the project PDF here.

Deer Park Alpha is a design, architecture, communciation and innovation firm specialising in translating complex and vast subject areas into engaging and useful formats to enable people to be better informed citizens. We work with private companies, local authorities and public sector organisations to help them demystify what they do to their clients, customers and employees.

An example of this is our recent guidebook to urban design called ‘Where We Live’ which took the enormous subject of urban design and what makes good urban environments and made it accessible to all.

As a team of architects, artists, designers and faciliators, Deer Park Alpha focuses effort into areas that loosely fit within the Built Environment subject area.