Augustus

Cultural Heritage Reconstruction in AR

Revealing an invisible history into a spatial experience within Paris

In-situ Experience Digital Interpretation AR app

Augustus is a research-based urban project that explores how lost historical structures can be re-experienced within Paris. By reconstructing the Wall of Philippe Augustus at 1:1 scale, the project creates a hybrid urban environment where physical space and virtual history coexist.

Contribution

Contributed to the later stages of the project through on-site scanning, spatial superposition, and the integration of digital models within the physical environment.

Design challenge

In dense contemporary cities, historical layers are often fragmented, or erased, or eventually becoming invisible. The challenge was to reintroduce a vanished medieval structure into today’s urban fabric without reconstructing it physically. How can augmented reality act as a spatial interface between past and present? And how can urban memory be activated through embodied, site-specific spatial experiences?

Outcome

The project allows historical space to re-emerge by superimposing a 1:1-scale reconstruction of the medieval wall onto its original location.

3D botanical sculpture rendered in augmented reality
Diagram outlining the workflow I contribute to