Battersea Power Station carried London's electricity for half a century before falling silent in 1983. Four decades of decay, failed schemes, and public imagination transformed the building into something beyond architecture—a monument to industrial memory and urban possibility. Its 2022 reopening posed a question most heritage projects avoid: how do you honour what a place meant while making room for what it becomes?

The Experience Room sits at the threshold—where visitors encounter the building's story before dispersing into the development. Most heritage interpretation defaults to one of two modes: embalming the past behind glass, or bulldozing it into generic retail narrative. Both are failures of imagination. The first freezes a building in amber. The second erases the thing that made anyone care in the first place.

The installation aimed for a third position: reinvention as continuation of essential character. A building that once converted energy for a city now converts attention, gathering people into a space still defined by monumental ambition. Interactive content responding to presence—heritage interpretation that doesn't feel like a museum panel, doesn't feel like a marketing exercise, and doesn't pretend the transformation isn't happening.

The real-time system runs in Unity, built to sustain years of continuous operation. It still greets visitors entering one of London's most improbable resurrections—the building that refused to stay dead, now asking a better question than "what was this?" The question is: what is it becoming?