Rural Mapping
A case study in the Polish countryside
Medium
Projection Mapping
2026 /
2026
an old building, reimagined
real-time projection in UE5
Rural Mapping
Rural Mapping is a series of projection-mapping installations staged in the spaces of the Polish countryside: barns, cottage rooms, farmyards. The project combines professional on-location footage, a real-time Unreal Engine 5 environment, and procedural video post-processing to build a multimedia installation embedded in its natural, rural surroundings.
The next step was drawing on local context. We captured the local environment — light, wind, the movement of trees — and turned it into a pattern projected back onto the rural structures themselves.
This kind of projection mapping isn't a synthetic layer of augmented reality. It grows out of the very surroundings the object belongs to. The projection doesn't hide the surface — it reveals its connection to the landscape it came from.
footage captured on location, turned into a pattern for the rural structures
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Raw footage
Capturing the space in its natural state — the starting point for the whole piece.
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Post process
Procedural processing of the footage, building a sense of nostalgia and a consistent visual language.
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Projection mapping
The final projection returns to the place it came from, closing the narrative loop.
The result is a meeting between advanced technology and nostalgia: places steeped in memory come alive in a form that was never possible before. Familiar façades and building forms begin to tell their own story — not as some foreign, digital overlay, but as a natural continuation of what was always there.