Virtual Urban Planning, VUP

VUP is a tool for visualizing consequences of urban planning in a 3D realtime model, streamed to the users through the Internet or used in e.g. a panorama setup (a stereo-scopic 3D display).

Quicktime movie: VUP - Recordings from the 3D panorama in CAVI

VUP allows the user to visualize and test virtual scenarios in an accurate context model based on laser scanned data of building heights, aerial photos and selected areas of detailed modelled elements like significant building, public squares etc. Hereby future buildings and planning projects can be tested and discussed in 3D and assure the partners and interests of its impact in terms of heights, position, infrastructural relations etc.

The 3D model is constructed in layers allowing the user to switch on and off information in the explored 3D space:

• Buildings can by visualized in different levels of detail
• Future plans as well as historical reconstructions
• Defined 3D entities can tricker external information on websites
• GIS data can be visualized

Related project: Slice

Manual for tall buildings [Projekt Høje Huse]:

In the last years a growing interest for building tall buildings in central parts of larger Danish cities has shown. Therefore more municipalities experience an increasingly need for a more specific set of rules and guidelines that can handle the architectural and planning oriented questions and demands.

For this purpose Arkitema in collaboration with Carlberg og Christensen and Rune Nielsen have worked on a manual for building tall in a Danish context (Højhushåndbogen) for the municipality of Århus to be published and distributed to cities with similar challenges.

The starting point of the manual is the VUP model and its visual possibilities of evaluating planning proposals, and it discusses the potential in new methods and technologies as concrete tools for planners and politicians to both develop and work with ideas as well as involving citizens in the process.

Partners:

VUP is a project in collaboration between the partners CAVI, COWI and Cadpeople and is focussing on the context of Aarhus and the nearby areas.

The starting point of the manual is the VUP model and its visual possibilities of evaluating planning proposals, and it discusses the potential in new methods and technologies as concrete tools for planners and politicians to both develop and work with ideas as well as involving citizens in the process.

Related publications:

• Nye Anvendelser af Interaktive Teknologier i Rumligt Design
  Situated Computing: afsæt i rum, sted & tid
  English title: New use of Interactive Technologies in Spatial Design
  Nielsen, R. 2006
  PhD thesis
• Anvendelsen af digitale 3d modeller som redskab og formidling
  Nielsen, R. 2005.
  In Handbook for Tall Buildings (Højhushåndbogen), by Arkitema