Document the environment.
Systematically capture historic rooms, artifacts and architectural details while working within the realities of protected spaces.
National Park Service / Accessibility + Immersive Technology
History Without
Barriers.
Creating a repeatable digital process that opened historic places to visitors beyond the limitations of the physical space.
01 / The challenge
Preserve the place.
Expand the access.
Historic preservation and physical accessibility can create a difficult tension. Many historic structures were built long before modern accessibility standards, and major structural changes may be impractical or conflict with preservation goals.
KROW. helped address that challenge through immersive 3D technology—digitally capturing historic environments so visitors could explore spaces remotely with a sense of actually moving through them.
The opportunity was larger than a single virtual tour. It was to create a process that could be repeated across historically significant locations.
~24Historic locations captured
5Gettysburg + Eisenhower launch buildings
1st2021 Blue Pencil & Gold Screen
3DImmersive digital access
02 / Building the process
From physical space to digital experience.
The work required more than scanning rooms. KROW. developed a field process for capturing complex historic environments, organizing the digital model and turning the result into an experience visitors could navigate online.
That meant understanding each location, planning the capture path, managing hundreds of scan points and creating a consistent workflow that could travel from site to site.
03 / The system
Capture. Build. Test. Deploy.
Create the digital twin.
Assemble scan points into an immersive model that gives remote visitors an intuitive way to move through the location.
Turn technology into access.
Deliver a web-based experience that can extend the reach of the physical site and become part of the location's digital visitor experience.
04 / Recognition
From digital solution to
award-winning work.
1ST
PLACE
PLACE
2021 Blue Pencil & Gold Screen Awards
SPECIAL PURPOSE PRODUCT
3D tours of five buildings at Gettysburg NMP and Eisenhower NHS
National Park Service — Harpers Ferry Center
The award recognized the virtual experiences that let visitors walk in the footsteps of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, explore the room where Abraham Lincoln finished the Gettysburg Address, and enter historically significant Gettysburg spaces online.
05 / Experience the work
Don't just look at history.
Step inside it.
The work remains available through the National Park Service, allowing visitors to explore Gettysburg historic structures through interactive 3D tours.
EXPLORE THE NPS 3D TOURS ↗Technology wasn't the story.
Access was.