UrbanMetrix is a web‑based platform that provides real‑time environmental analysis—solar radiation, wind, noise, and views—through dense 3D sensor‑point grids for empty sites or existing building envelopes. Architects, engineers, and developers can interactively adjust thresholds and weighting factors to instantly visualize optimal building orientations, façade components, and spatial layouts, with performance dashboards that show energy, daylight, acoustic comfort, and CO₂ savings. The tool exports results to standard BIM and CAD formats, enabling fast, data‑driven decisions early in the conceptual design phase.
Funding
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Problem
Architects, engineers, and developers often lack fast, intuitive tools to evaluate site-specific environmental factors such as solar exposure, daylight, wind, noise, and views early in the design process. Traditional simulation software requires a completed building model before analysis, creating a costly iterative loop and limiting sustainable design decisions.
Solution
UrbanMetrix is a web‑based platform that brings environmental intelligence to the conceptual design stage. It generates dense 3D grids of sensor points across a site and computes solar radiation, wind speed, acoustic levels, and line‑of‑sight metrics in real time. Users can interactively adjust thresholds and weighting factors to explore multiple design alternatives, and the system instantly visualizes optimal building orientations, façade components, and spatial layouts that maximize daylight, renewable energy potential, and acoustic comfort while minimizing unwanted exposure. Results are presented as performance histograms, energy forecasts, and CO₂ savings, and can be exported to standard 3D modeling tools for further development.
Target Audience
Primary customers are architecture firms, engineering consultancies, and real‑estate developers who need rapid, data‑driven environmental assessments during early concept development.
Features
- Volumetric sensor‑point grids that deliver real‑time solar, wind, noise, and view analyses for empty sites or existing building envelopes
- Interactive 3D visualizer with filtering tools (active voxels, intersection points, line‑of‑sight rays) to explore environmental data intuitively
- Adjustable thresholds and weighting sliders that let users prioritize specific sustainability goals and instantly see their impact on design options
- Automated cloud‑based simulation workflow that ingests geodata, runs analyses, and returns results within minutes without manual setup
- Performance dashboards showing energy production (kWh), daylight hours, sound pressure levels (dB), wind speeds (m/s), CO₂ savings, and cost‑benefit metrics
- Export functionality for generated 3D schematics to common BIM and CAD formats, enabling seamless integration with downstream design tools