Architecture you can walk through, before the first stone.
Design & development, through VawzenPROJECT CONTEXT
01 / THE STARTING POINT
Artefact Studio is a practice for architecture, design and visualization: interiors, exteriors, 3D renders, CG animation and virtual tours. Its mission is plain, “We help people feel good in a space”, and its rule is older: less is more.
Through Vawzen, I designed and developed the studio’s website: sixteen projects, four languages including right-to-left Arabic, and tours you can actually walk.
02 / THE PRODUCT IN PRACTICE
The request form begins with what a client already holds: PDF or AutoCAD drawings, a sketch, a 3D model, site photos, measurements, references or a moodboard. A budget band follows, from under 2K to above 10K USD, with the option to ask for help estimating.
Preliminary results come back for review and feedback before the final visualization is made. The site sets out that rhythm before anyone writes, so a draft never arrives as a surprise.
The finished space becomes a 360° Pano2VR tour, with WebXR for headsets. Hotspots join the viewpoints, so a visitor moves from room to room instead of flicking through a slideshow.
03 / A CLOSER READING
Two tours live on the site: a café in three panoramas and a villa in four. Every viewpoint opens onto every other, six hotspots in the café and twelve in the villa, so there is no wrong turn and no dead end.
Hotspot labels follow the page language, Arabic included.
04 / THE THROUGH LINE
The site does the studio’s first job before anyone calls: it lets people stand in a room that does not exist yet, and decide how it should feel.