Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova has granted a total investment of 100 million SEK to create new possibilities for virtual urban planning and analysis. Together with Chalmers’ department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, VirtualCity@Chalmers has steered and coordinated the application process and will be a central part of the center. Center director Anders Logg says: ”We…
Read more
Building Futures’ Area of advance director and project manager Anders Logg was interviewed on the TV4 News on 14th November 2018, describing how buildings and other elements in city environments affect wind conditions, and also how simulation tools like VirtualCity@Chalmers can be used in the planning and building of good environments. Always tailwind? That…
Read more
Analysis of wind flow is an important factor in assessing the conditions for pedestrian comfort in a city. The geometries of buildings, in particular tall buildings, and their relative positions have a tremendous effect on the wind experienced by pedestrians on the ground level. Wind is a highly complex phenomenon and the analysis requires the…
Read more
This year’s Chalmers Sustainability Day takes place on October the 23rd, and we are happy to announce that our production team of VirtualCity@Chalmers will take part in the event. The Chalmers Sustainability Day is open for students, employees and alumni of Chalmers University of Technology. It’s an annually recurring event with the purpose of…
Read more
The work with the digital urban planning and simulation tool VirtualCity@Chalmers is moving forward. Lead developer Vasilis Naserentin is giving an update on the current status of the project. Vasilis is sharing some fresh and insightful updates about the progress in the development of VirtualCity and is anticipating upcoming plans, new implementations and collaborations for…
Read more
In September VirtualCity moved to its new head quarter at the new department of Architecture and Civil Engineering (ACE) in Chalmers’s Johanneberg Campus. The department is the merger of the old departments of Architecture and Civil Engineering and it represents broad fields of knowledge and interdisciplinary collaborations in research and education. Founded in 1856, the…
Read more
The new teaser video is out on YouTube, follow the work in progress on our urban simulation tool! Our city planning simulation tool features immersion with a 3D world with enabled AR/VR functionality. Sensor data can be directly integrated into the platform; weather, pollution, noise and traffic are already available. Wind simulations powered by IPS…
Read more
Chalmers Area of Advance Building Futures, the City of Gothenburg and Fraunhofer Chalmers Centre recently arranged the initiative seminar Virtual Cities – Opportunities and Challenges. The seminar, held at the Visual Arena, Lindholmen Science Park, gathered several prominent researchers and involved parties, among others Jarmo Suomisto from the City of Helsinki, Eric Jeansson, geodata strategist at the City of Gothenburg, and Anders Logg, Chalmers Area of Advance Building Futures. Read more »
