Calahorra | Immersive Room on Roman Calagurris with Wraparound Projection

DeuSens and the Roman memory of Calahorra

DeuSens developed the audiovisual content for a permanent immersive room in Calahorra, dedicated to recreating the city's Roman history. The brief covered art direction, the narrative script and the full audiovisual production of a piece that spans two thousand years of history in just ten minutes.

The project was born with a clear goal: turn the Roman past of Calagurris into a sensory experience, moving away from traditional information panels and instead placing visitors on the streets, in the baths and inside the circus of the ancient city.

A room designed to wrap around you

The room was conceived as a continuous projection space that wraps around the visitor, so content flows from wall to wall without perceptible breaks. Every scene was designed so the viewer's gaze could roam freely across the space without losing the thread of the story.

This continuity demanded millimetre-precise synchronisation between the different viewpoints, so the action that begins on one wall carries on naturally onto the next, reinforcing the feeling of being inside the scene rather than facing it.

Quintilian as a guide through time

The narration is carried by the voice of Marcus Fabius Quintilian, the celebrated orator born in Calahorra, who guides visitors from the city's Celtiberian origins to its splendour as a Roman municipium. His first-person account opens up the forum, the walls, the aqueduct and the roads that connected Calagurris with the rest of the empire.

The journey pauses at the most representative spaces of Roman life: the circus and the passion of the chariot races, the intimacy of aristocratic domus, and the social ritual of the baths, before arriving at the discovery of the Lady of Calahorra, closing with a visual bridge between the ancient city and the present one.

Realism between the real and the recreated

The piece combines real images and footage shot in Calahorra with three-dimensional scenes built in Blender, replicating the room's layout so both visual languages coexist without perceptible friction. Art direction cared for every texture, light and proportion so the Roman reconstruction felt believable even in close-ups.

The result is an experience that sends visitors back out onto the streets of Calahorra with a different eye, aware that beneath today's layout the imprint of Calagurris still beats.