Clairval water plant
A drinking-water plant that exists only in 3D. We designed and built every building, basin and pipe, then gave it a guide: Mélanie walks visitors from the river to the tap in six stops.
Full screen, with the sound on: Mélanie does the talking.
A plant you can visit before it is built
Some sites cannot be photographed: they are secured, under construction, or still on the drawing board. Clairval is our answer. Nothing here was filmed. The river, the intake, the settling basins, the filter hall, the ozone room and the control room were all modelled, lit and rendered as 360° views.
The tour then explains the process the way a good host would: a guide who walks ahead, points at what matters and opens the next door, with a moving diagram at every stop.
- Project
- Studio concept
Fictional plant, no client data - Delivery
- 3D set, custom 360° viewer, animated guide, voice-over
- Languages
- French, English, Dutch
- Screens
- Phone, tablet, desktop, kiosk
How we built it
Model the whole site
One 3D scene for the entire plant, so the aerial view, the site map and each room always agree with one another.
Give it an identity
A name, a logo and a colour system made for Clairval, carried from the signs on the buildings to the jacket of the guide.
Build for every screen
A lightweight WebGL viewer with living water, moving boats and working control screens, laid out again for phones.
Give it a voice
Mélanie speaks French, English and Dutch. Her lips follow the narration and the camera follows what she is talking about.
Three ways to visit
The guided tour
Press play and follow Mélanie through the six stops, from the river intake to the control room.
On your own
Jump to any building from the aerial view or the site map, and open the information points at your own pace.
Question time
Each stop ends with one question about what you have just seen. A simple way to check that the message got through.