Historic Center Recovery
Barranquilla, the capital of Colombia’s Atlántico Department, is a bustling seaport flanked by the Magdalena River. The city is known for its enormous Carnival.
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Heritage restored, center reborn—Barranquilla’s historic heart comes back to life.
Overview
Barranquilla's Mayor’s Office needed help to produce a vision film for the recovery and restoration of the city’s historic center. The piece traces where commerce and culture began, contrasts today’s challenges, and shows the future state: safer streets, renewed public spaces, and a vibrant destination to live, eat, walk, work, and invest. We blended aerials, street-level footage, a mayoral interview, custom 2D illustration, and 3D before/after visualizations of buildings and corridors.
Challenge
Explain a complex urban transformation to a broad audience—residents, merchants, and investors—without oversimplifying. The story needed to acknowledge pollution, traffic, and noise while clearly illustrating how design changes improve safety, comfort, and economic activity.
Solution
We mixed documentary and design visualization: drone shots to establish scale, live footage to ground the human story, an interview with the mayor to build trust, custom 2D graphics to clarify interventions, and 3D animated “now vs. future” sequences that reveal new facades, streetscapes, lighting, and pedestrian zones—making the plan tangible in seconds.
Result
A rallying-film used across web, social, and community presentations to align locals and build momentum. The visuals helped residents picture the upgrades, encouraged confidence in the works to come, and supported the city’s push to attract tourism and private investment in the historic core.
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Historic Center Recovery
Barranquilla, the capital of Colombia’s Atlántico Department, is a bustling seaport flanked by the Magdalena River. The city is known for its enormous Carnival.
Know More
Heritage restored, center reborn—Barranquilla’s historic heart comes back to life.
Overview
Barranquilla's Mayor’s Office needed help to produce a vision film for the recovery and restoration of the city’s historic center. The piece traces where commerce and culture began, contrasts today’s challenges, and shows the future state: safer streets, renewed public spaces, and a vibrant destination to live, eat, walk, work, and invest. We blended aerials, street-level footage, a mayoral interview, custom 2D illustration, and 3D before/after visualizations of buildings and corridors.
Challenge
Explain a complex urban transformation to a broad audience—residents, merchants, and investors—without oversimplifying. The story needed to acknowledge pollution, traffic, and noise while clearly illustrating how design changes improve safety, comfort, and economic activity.
Solution
We mixed documentary and design visualization: drone shots to establish scale, live footage to ground the human story, an interview with the mayor to build trust, custom 2D graphics to clarify interventions, and 3D animated “now vs. future” sequences that reveal new facades, streetscapes, lighting, and pedestrian zones—making the plan tangible in seconds.
Result
A rallying-film used across web, social, and community presentations to align locals and build momentum. The visuals helped residents picture the upgrades, encouraged confidence in the works to come, and supported the city’s push to attract tourism and private investment in the historic core.
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Historic Center Recovery
Barranquilla, the capital of Colombia’s Atlántico Department, is a bustling seaport flanked by the Magdalena River. The city is known for its enormous Carnival.
Know More
Heritage restored, center reborn—Barranquilla’s historic heart comes back to life.
Overview
Barranquilla's Mayor’s Office needed help to produce a vision film for the recovery and restoration of the city’s historic center. The piece traces where commerce and culture began, contrasts today’s challenges, and shows the future state: safer streets, renewed public spaces, and a vibrant destination to live, eat, walk, work, and invest. We blended aerials, street-level footage, a mayoral interview, custom 2D illustration, and 3D before/after visualizations of buildings and corridors.
Challenge
Explain a complex urban transformation to a broad audience—residents, merchants, and investors—without oversimplifying. The story needed to acknowledge pollution, traffic, and noise while clearly illustrating how design changes improve safety, comfort, and economic activity.
Solution
We mixed documentary and design visualization: drone shots to establish scale, live footage to ground the human story, an interview with the mayor to build trust, custom 2D graphics to clarify interventions, and 3D animated “now vs. future” sequences that reveal new facades, streetscapes, lighting, and pedestrian zones—making the plan tangible in seconds.
Result
A rallying-film used across web, social, and community presentations to align locals and build momentum. The visuals helped residents picture the upgrades, encouraged confidence in the works to come, and supported the city’s push to attract tourism and private investment in the historic core.
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