Casson Mann used 3D laser scanning to create replicas of 20,000-year-old cave paintings at the Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art, which won Interiors Project of the Year at Dezeen Awards 2018. The designers explain their process in this movie.
Roger Mann, creative director of Casson Mann, told Dezeen that he wanted to explore a connection with the past through the reconstructions of the Paleolithic paintings found on the walls of the Lascaux caves.
The centre, located in the rural village of Montignac in southwest France, comprises a series of galleries containing resin-cast replicas of the 20,000-year-old paintings.
Casson Mann won a Dezeen Award for their exhibition at Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art in France
Designed by Norwegian architects Snøhetta, the museum is in close proximity to the original caves. These have been closed to the general public since the 1960s, after over-exposure to carbon dioxide caused damage to the paintings. "All that moisture that people gave off caused mould to grow on the original painting," Mann explained.
The caves were closed in 1963 due to damage
Casson Mann used 3D laser scanning to capture the surfaces of the painting, before casting resin facsimiles of the rock surfaces. Twenty-five artists copied the paintings onto the resin over a two-year period, using similar pigments used for the originals millennia ago.

The replicas hang from the ceiling above the heads of the visitors, while the acoustics and t...