The Millau Viaduct, located in southern France, is the world’s tallest bridge with an impressive height of 1,125 feet. This high quality eyewear store located in downtown LA, California, received its name Le Pont from the French word for “the bridge”. If you think about the materials used to build a bridge of this scale, such as concrete and steel, you should automatically associate these materials with having qualities such as strength, stability and durability. At Le Pont, the goal will be to incoorporate these qualities into the design through its use of furniture, finishes and architectural elements in hopes that these may reflect the high quality products that Le Pont has to offer.
 

Located on both sides of the store, Le Pont’s “See Me” Stations will be a huge factor in the customers overall experience. Using innovative technology, the stations have cameras on each wall which capture the user in real time and allow them to try on as many frames as they would like. Through touch screen technology, the user simply has to press “capture” and the station will take a panoramic photograph, which will be played back to the customer so that he or she may be able to see what the frames look like in a 180 degree view. The stations’ shape and thickness acts as a reflection of the quality products offered by Le Pont.

CLICK THIS LINK to see the store through virtual reality technology: http://pano.autodesk.com/pano.html?url=jpgs/58e46d10-ca31-46ea-b125-2eb73efeeb1a

Techniques & Software used: Revit and Photoshop