Identifying influential architectural design variables for early-stage building sustainability optimization

Wang, Xinyue; Teigland, Robin; Hollberg, Alexander

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111295

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“…With developments in communication systems and cloud-based computing, it is also now becoming possible to run complex real-time multi-domain urban simulations such as noise, radiation, energy, and wind [62] and optimize the architectural design variables [63] to improve the sustainability of cities [64]. The preliminary data types supported by our workflow should be sufficient in the near future to support the visualization results from any such simulations.…”

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Towards Urban Digital Twins: A Workflow for Procedural Visualization Using Geospatial Data

Somanath,

Naserentin,

Eleftheriou

et al. 2024

Remote Sensing

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A key feature for urban digital twins (DTs) is an automatically generated detailed 3D representation of the built and unbuilt environment from aerial imagery, footprints, LiDAR, or a fusion of these. Such 3D models have applications in architecture, civil engineering, urban planning, construction, real estate, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and many other areas. While the visualization of large-scale data in conjunction with the generated 3D models is often a recurring and resource-intensive task, an automated workflow is complex, requiring many steps to achieve a high-quality visualization. Methods for building reconstruction approaches have come a long way, from previously manual approaches to semi-automatic or automatic approaches. This paper aims to complement existing methods of 3D building generation. First, we present a literature review covering different options for procedural context generation and visualization methods, focusing on workflows and data pipelines. Next, we present a semi-automated workflow that extends the building reconstruction pipeline to include procedural context generation using Python and Unreal Engine. Finally, we propose a workflow for integrating various types of large-scale urban analysis data for visualization. We conclude with a series of challenges faced in achieving such pipelines and the limitations of the current approach. However, the steps for a complete, end-to-end solution involve further developing robust systems for building detection, rooftop recognition, and geometry generation and importing and visualizing data in the same 3D environment, highlighting a need for further research and development in this field.

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confidence: 99%