Making the city of the future tangible.

Client

Drees & Sommer

Project Title

Smart City Demonstrator Exhibit

Topics

Digital

Year

2021

The goal of the exhibit is to make smart technology solutions and innovative planning approaches tangible using virtual city models. To this end, we developed a 3D representation based on map data from two Hamburg districts, which can be used to simulate various before-and-after situations. The centerpiece of the demonstrator is a touch table that automatically synchronizes its content with the wall screens in the room.

The place for collaborative workshops at the touch table.

The Smart City Demonstrator is a permanent fixture in the Hammerbrooklyn area in Hamburg’s Speicherstadt. Here, Drees & Sommer meets with various clients – mostly municipalities or partner companies – to hold workshops. The touch table is the central point of reference where technological changes can be experienced firsthand.

How does a traffic-calmed city center change the overall traffic situation?

What path chains do the residents of my district have based on building use?

How do smart city furniture – such as street lighting that regulates traffic flow – affect the overall situation of the city?

Particular attention was paid to a realistic traffic and pedestrian AI, which calculates the various walking and driving routes between points of interest and places them within a daily routine.

The intervention of new technologies into today’s cityscape changes numerous factors that are usually difficult to comprehend. The algorithms developed or adapted for the project are intended to make these factors tangible.

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