Rigel
Manufacturer Website & Client Portal
Overview
A concept for a plant that designs, fabricates and erects steel-frame buildings: warehouses, workshops, hangars and sports halls. Industrial sites usually hide the price behind “request a quote”; here the price comes straight from a parametric model of the frame. The same model draws the building in 3D, sketches it in the request form, weighs the steel and later shows the client which parts of their order are already welded. The plant, its projects, clients and prices are fictional.
One source of truth: a frame is built from a handful of parameters — span, length, height, snow region. Columns, rafters, purlins and bracing come out of it, and so do the 3D scene, the line drawings, the tonnage and the estimate.
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A price you can move
Like business-bank tariff calculators, sliders give the answer instantly: the frame rebuilds, the tonnage and the estimate recalculate, the timeline splits into drawings, workshop and erection. Dimensions are labelled right on the model.
02
Four short steps
The request carries the building over from the calculator and asks only what the plant can’t work out itself. The snow and wind regions come from the address, files upload in the background, and the engineer’s call is booked like an appointment.
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A digital twin of the order
In the client portal every part of the frame is coloured by where it is on the shop floor: primed, welded, in progress or waiting for cutting. Quality-control events arrive in a feed, and the schedule shows today against the plan.
The identity comes from the shop floor: red-lead primer as the accent, blueprint blue for dimensions, a monospaced face for sizes and part marks. The mark is a portal frame with a star over the ridge — Rigel is both a crossbeam and the brightest star of Orion.
EntryUI concept; the plant, its projects, clients, people and prices are fictional; cities are real, the buildings in them are not. All buildings are rendered from the parametric model made for this case (three.js, MIT); the supply map is built from Natural Earth data (public domain). Fonts: IBM Plex Sans and IBM Plex Mono, SIL Open Font License.
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