Archistoire

The Archistoire Experience

An interactive and immersive discovery app revealing cities‘ inside stories to visitors

Unravelling the cities’ inside stories

Each city has its secrets, each site holds unique memories! Rewind in time, enter inaccessible venues virtually… a walk through the city becomes a unique and memorable journey with Archistoire!

Augmented panoramas on your smartphone

Forget paper guides and old-fashioned leaflets! With nothing more than a smartphone, interactively explore the surroundings at 360-degrees, according to your personal interests and at your own pace.

An outstanding on-site experience

we produce high-quality, exclusive content for a venue and deliver it in a unique on-site experience at the crossroads of augmented and virtual reality, picking the best from both

Our vision

Archistoire is a registered trademark of CAUE Var and the creative agency 9b+.

The concept of Archistoire is to reveal through a smartphone app the stories of our natural and built landscapes. Beyond the description of what constitutes our heritage, the main purpose is to explain to the general public how our life environments are created.
The authenticity and quality of the content provided by the Archistoire label are based on CAUEs’ 40 years of expertise in the topics covered. The CAUEs are unique tools at the service of the territories, making it possible to offer a cross-fertilized view of the challenges adressed through architecture, urban planning, landscapes and the environment.
Archistoire is the embodiment of the CAUEs’ innovation policy through the use of digital tools to raise awareness on these subjects.

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Features

Localization
Head over to significant locations in your city. On-site, your smartphone will automatically inform you of points of interest in your nearby surroundings.
Points of interest
The most beautiful, interesting, unusual points of view are selected with care to tell the story of buildings and locations.
Interactive Panoramas
Hold up your smartphone to discover the 360° interactive hotspots hidden in your surroundings and get access to authentic stories and exclusive information.

A time-window on the past and the future
Through an intuitive user experience, find the image overlays that will reveal the state of a location from the past, but also as planned for the future.
Virtual browsing
Virtually enter remote and inaccessible locations for more 360° exploration.
Archidex
Unlock exclusive contents for more intriguing information on the history, architecture or interesting events that took place in the selected locations… to go through them whenever you feel like it !

What our lucky beta-testers say about the app

Since this is an all-in-one app, the content is immediately accessible regardless of the network coverage of your location or your cell phone’s data roaming contract . I also tested the experience from home, and loved to be able to travel from one place to another and keep learning new things on my city.

Louis C.

It’s fantastic to get this 360° vision of a city ! Looking for the blinking hotspots feels like a treasure hunt. It took me a while to realize that the panoramas I was seeing weren’t actually taken by my phone’s camera : the illusion is seamless and the experience highly immersive !

Ludovic P.

I really enjoy walking through cities but usually don’t like guided tours. This app was really great to stroll around at my own pace and discover fun facts as I pleased.

Amélie S.

Finally an app that offers more than a traditional leaflet or GPS guide ! I love how you get immersed in your environment and can time-travel. I learned so much all while having fun !

Nicolas B.

Archistoire lab

The Archistoire team is constantly testing ideas in different places, to create new experiences for an innovative augmented visitor guide.

The initial concept for Archistoire was first developed in Toulon (France) to allow the buildings to tell the story of this mediterranean naval base. The city center becomes a playground in which the user embarks on a journey to uncover architectural symbols and characteristics that testify of the past, present and even future history of the town.

Archistoire Toulon’s starting point is quite simple: Toulon is a pleasant place, representative of the French riviera and an ideal destination for tourists and cruise ships. But what makes the city’s beauty is hidden to many eyes and mainly known to experts that can interpret its characteristics.

With Archistoire Toulon, we aim to highlight the positive attributes of the city’s heritage and make them accessible to both local residents and visitors. Archistoire intends to provide a perfectly seamless and intuitive experience for the widest range of visitors that allows them, using their smartphone, to discover the treasures of the city at their own pace.

A full-scale experiment in a French city
Have you ever wished you could fully immerse yourself into the past when visiting a heritage site or a museum ? This is the aim of the concept developed for the “Abbaye de la Celle”, a major tourism site in the Var area (France) for all lovers of old stones and religious sites.

The concept of Archistoire Abbaye de la Celle brings the past to life through an immersive guided tour of the abbey: sounds, images and videos in overlay recreate the unique atmosphere back in the days where the monks’ led their daily activities, and reveal the construction phases of the building as well as the various purposes of the rooms that changed over time.

The challenge here is to create a truly innovative indoor multimedia guide that takes into account all operating issues, that apply to all museums, exhibitions, heritage or archaeological sites.

An immersive indoor guided tour

Work in progress!
With Archistoire Las Vegas, our objective is to demonstrate the replicability of our concept to other contexts, types of architecture and audiences. Archistoire Las Vegas will put a special emphasis on the entrainment aspect of our app, rather that on the learning experience.

Allow to see more than what is before our eyes: how the city was built, for what purpose, what it was like initially, where the various inspirations for the casino’s architecture came from… and tell amusing or unknown stories of what happened in the Entertainment Capital of the World. What happened in Vegas… should be shared with the world !

Give access to all that’s going on: allow visitors to know about all the available activities, plan their stay in Vegas, share their experience… to make the destination always more entertaining.

The ambition: an international experiment in 2018

Work in progress!

Team

Tirelessly working on innovative user experiences joining the real and the digital world, the makers of archistoire unite their skills, ranging from innovation strategies to museography and user experience to interaction design.

To create the original content of the Archistoire apps, we rely on the unique expertise of CAUEs.

Toulon Office

Project Management FR, Content Creation, Design

Grégoire Chailleux

CEO

Co-Creator of the initial concept, Grégoire bravely leads the teams in its life-size experiments with Archistoire. Present on all fronts, from production to feedback, he challenges ideas, acts as a team translator and ensures a common innovative vision for the project.

Camille Laureau

ARTISTIC & CONTENT DIRECTOR

Camille is especially fond of words. Insatiably curious and tireless, she hunts for the most outstanding anecdotes, gathers all available information, brings together expert knowledge to craft captivating stories to tell.

Kevin Pardo

UX DESIGNER

Kevin virtually steers the users’ gaze and fingers over the interfaces. UX designer and multi-entrepreneur, ergonomy nutcase, Kevin imagines, experiments and tames the app’s features to make of it a seamless extension of our hands.

Laurent Paoletti

DEVELOPER

Some say that Laurent’s brain is composed of 0s and 1s. To him, no concept is impossible to translate to code and he develops tailor-made solutions at the speed of light to allow ideas to spark to life.

Olivier Charlois

PHOTOGRAPHER

Expert eye and Google certified photographer Olivier has a sixth sense to find the best viewpoints to shoot outstandingly realistic photospheres, always dazzling and highly immersive. He has a secret recipe to bring the best out of every location on which he sets his eyes.

Berlin Office

Project Management DE, Interaction Design, Prototyping, Development

Patrick Kochlik

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Patrick co-created Archistoire, and is creative director of the project. He employs his creative talent in a research-driven, analytical design process to create entertaining and meaningful experiences.

Jens Wunderling

INTERACTION DESIGNER

Interaction designer and co-creator of Archistoire, with a background in graphic and new media design. Jens aims to make people understand technology and use technology to understand the world. To make sure outcomes match his vision, he works in every phase of the process, doing research, sketching ideas, prototyping and writing code.

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Resources

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