The Brief
Show the building, not a picture of the building.
CASUA, an architectural studio thirty-three years deep, wanted to present its work the way the work deserved: walkable, turnable, real. The CASUA 33 exhibition marked those years, and a wall of flat renders couldn’t carry it.
The goal was a building you could hold in your hand on a phone or laptop, BIM data and all, with nothing to install.
The Approach
Three projects in the browser, one cassowary in the lobby.
We built interactive 3D versions of three CASUA developments — Bořislavka Centrum, Fragment, and Karolina Plazza — running in the browser straight from their BIM data, with novel view synthesis so anyone could spin and read a project from any angle.
Then we gave CASUA’s mascot a body: a 3D cassowary, modeled and animated, installed in the studio’s HQ as persistent AR — simply there whenever you raise a phone. We also delivered marketing renders and slipped the bird onto the studio’s “Team” page among the real architects.
The Impact
A building you can turn in your hand, a mascot that lives in the lobby.
CASUA’s visitors got what a printed render can’t: projects explorable from every side, and a studio identity present in the HQ and on the phone at once — built in thirty days.
