HADAL Immersive Web Experience — VISOLVE

QUICK LOOK01 / 03

Project frame 1
← Back to work
Research submersible and bioluminescent life in the deep ocean

HADAL

Explore the deep ocean. Discover unknown life. Add each find to a digital museum.

IMMERSIVE ABYSSAL ARCHIVE
−10,984 M
EXPEDITION 07 / LIVE34.18° N · 142.20° E
WHAT IS HADAL? / FICTIONAL CONCEPT

A web experience turning a deep-sea mission into a digital museum.

The visitor joins a research crew and descends through the ocean’s deepest layers. They follow sonar signals, discover unknown life and add every finding to a living archive. Every screen below supports this one simple journey.

01 / DIVEGo deeper.

As you scroll, light fades while pressure and data increase.

02 / FINDFollow the signal.

Sonar and bioluminescence lead to an unknown organism.

03 / ARCHIVESave the find.

The organism enters the digital museum with location and environmental data.

01 / INTERACTION CONCEPT

The dive
is the
interface.

HADAL is a digital archive that moves through layers of depth, not pages. As the user descends, light disappears, data intensifies and the ocean begins to speak another language.

SCROLL = DESCENT HOVER = SONAR SOUND = PRESSURE
DEPTH INDEX / 07SIGNAL {{ signalValue }}%
{{ depthLabel }}
{{ zoneLabel }}
SURFACECHALLENGER DEEP

Interactive prototype — drag the depth marker.

02 / SPECIMEN ARCHIVE

Making the
unknown visible.

Photography, taxonomy and environmental data converge in a single discovery screen.

Glass-like bioluminescent deep-sea organism
SPECIMEN H–071

Aurelia
profunda

A fictional abyssal organism that produces light and turns translucent under extreme pressure.

DEPTH8,420 M
PRESSURE842 BAR
EMISSION472 NM
STATUSUNCLASSIFIED
03 / INTERFACE GRAMMARONE SYSTEM · THREE SIGNALS
SONAR / 01
PROXIMITY → LIGHT
TYPE / 02
Aa
ARCHIVO 800
IBM PLEX MONO 500
SCIENCE → STORY
SPECTRUM / 03
472 NM
DEPTH → COLOR
04 / EXPEDITION CONTROL

Not an archive.
A living mission.

HADAL’s second layer brings the crew, route and sensor stream into one operations screen. The viewer does not only see results—they feel the discovery happening now.

MISSION MAP / WESTERN PACIFICLINK 88% · 04:17:22 UTC
05 / FIELD SCREENS

The mission
fits in a pocket.

The mobile toolkit lets crew members read depth, specimen records, sonar proximity and hydrophone streams at a glance during the mission.

DIVE / H–07

Challenger
Descent

−8,420 M
ZONEHADALSIGNAL31%
SPECIMEN / 071

Aurelia
profunda

EMISSION472 NMPRESSURE842 BARSTATUSNEW
SWIPE TO ARCHIVE →
PROXIMITY SONAR
CONTACT18 MBEARING284°
HYDROPHONE / LIVE

Unknown
signal 04

00:42 / LOOPING
PROJECT NOTES

Not a website.
A controlled descent.

HADAL is a fictional research platform that turns the ocean's deepest region into an explorable digital archive. Its visual logic is derived from depth, pressure, signal and bioluminescence. The interface does more than explain—it creates the physical sensation of descent.

TYPESelf-Initiated Concept
SCOPEArt Direction · UX · Motion
OUTPUTImmersive Web Prototype
HADAL and its research data were created as a portfolio concept. The work focuses on digital art direction, interaction logic and experience design.
NEXT PROJECT

PULSE

→