When you have a panorama like that of Milan Cathedral, you would like to have a 360° view, a look out from all rooms or angles. Yet often, due to compliance with cultural heritage regulations, it is not possible to intervene and modify the external configuration of the elevations by opening new windows. This was the case in a project for the restoration and conservation of a prestigious office building overlooking Piazza Duomo. The client’s wish was to have as many views of the exterior as possible in order to be able to enjoy from any point such a unique view as that on Milan’s Piazza Duomo. For this very purpose, the intervention of 3P Technologies was requested, an Italian company specialised in technological and innovative solutions able to create personalised and quality experiences, designed to involve, excite and increase people’s wellbeing and comfort.
The company was asked to provide virtual views and glimpses, as close to reality as possible. The architectural context and highprofile furnishings required solutions with clean lines that would integrate with the surrounding office environment, reproducing the presence of real windows to the outside in the most convincing and realistic way. Three ledwalls measuring 3.5m x 2m were therefore positioned in the existing glazed window wells. The positioning of the ledwalls and their resolution was carefully studied to reproduce as naturally as possible the images visible to office users moving around the premises or working in the vicinity of the installations.
The ledwalls reproduce in real time and in full HD, as if visible to the human eye from an imaginary window, the images taken by cameras that capture the architectural elements of the external locations behind the walls of the external elevations, excluding places where people pass through or stop, and without recording or storing data. The result is that of having created three new exterior views with a truly suggestive panorama, giving those staying on the floor the opportunity to have contact with the outside world, both visually and emotionally.
