Architectural Projection Mapping
There’s a quiet kind of magic in watching a building awaken through light.
Architectural projection — the art of video mapping onto buildings and structures — invites us to see the familiar with fresh eyes. It can reshape the stories held in stone and steel, layering new meaning, memory, and imagination onto the surfaces of our shared spaces.
Much like the arrival of perspective in Renaissance painting, or the wonder sparked by the first flickering films, projection mapping opens up new ways of seeing — playful, immersive, and transformative.
At Vent Media, we’ve spent years honing a process that blends creative intuition with technical precision.
Using 2D and 3D workflows, we shape each project from the ground up — capturing real-world forms through 3D scanning and photogrammetry, and weaving them into bespoke visual narratives. Tools like Disguise (D3) allow us to orchestrate light, motion, and architecture in perfect synchrony.
The results are moments of wonder — buildings that breathe, façades that shift, spaces that speak.
Below, you’ll find a selection of our architectural projection works — each one a dialogue between technology, environment, and imagination.
'About Us'
Projection-mapping, live music, education and participation combine to create one of the UK’s most ambitious touring outdoor performances.
About Us is a touring large scale public art event combining multimedia installations with animation, poetry, original music and live performance to explore the myriad connections between us, our planet, and the wider cosmos. The live show uses animation and projection mapping to transform buildings and landmarks in five towns and cities across the UK into vast canvases on which we tell the story of 13.8 billion years of hyper-connected history.
Tower of London 2022
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IMMERSIONS - GUGGENHEIM BILBAO 25TH ANNIVERSARY
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After the success of ‘Reflections‘, 59 Productions was invited back to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, to create show in celebration of their 25th anniversary year.
Immersions took the experience of our 2017 show and turned it inside-out, bringing audiences inside the Guggenheim Museum to experience the celebrations from within the atrium.
Driven by the same spectacular soundtrack and threaded-through with the inception story of the museum, Immersions placed the viewer at the beating heart of an all-encompassing projection sound and light experience.
59 Productions and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao invited the citizens of Bilbao to join in celebration inside the transformed atrium, enveloping our guests into a world of sensory stimulation, sound, light and projection.
59 Productions
A selection of our other Architectural mapping project can be seen below:
