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Urban Digital Application
Data-driven analysis and planning visions are only as good as your ability to apply them in different settings. We understand the potential of digital technologies in urban environment. Our team has the capabilities and experiences to develop original digital tools for in-depth analysis of challenges, creative visualization of ideas, and effective production of solutions in cities – socioeconomics, architectural and urban design, transportation, environmental information, and so forth.
Ang Sila CoDAS Thailand
Smart Citizen Digital Participatory Platform
Ang Sila, Chonburi, Thailand
2019
Design and Development Lead: Helena Rong
Ang Sila is a historical fishing village located in the province of Chonburi, which is 91 km southeast of Thai capital Bangkok. As Chonburi develops in tourism, the challenge lies in preserving vernacular culture and strong ecological features on the site while accommodating new needs of incoming tourists. Ang Sila’s unique fishing village culture and mangrove forests are two most valuable local features under the threat of generic touristic development.
CoDAS is a smart citizen digital participatory platform that engages multiple stakeholders during different stages of design, from pre-design/planning to construction to post-occupancy. Consisting of both digital and physical components, the tool creates an interface between developers, designers and citizens, and invite contributions from large amounts of audience on the site. It is a means to create an emotional census of Ang Sila neighborhoods and a digital overlay of the city’s personal narratives and perceptions, providing granular neighborhood insights which assist with design decision-making.
City Engine Workflow Study
Scenario Planning Model
Los Angeles, USA
2016
Design and Development Lead: Tuo Sun
The City Engine Workflow model uses 3D GIS tool to optimize urban planning and analysis. The workflow includes data collection and transfer, analysis, input and cleanup, rule coding and model generation. Besides the parametric method of building city model, this workflow can report the index in sheet and dashboard in real-time.
The process and outcome of work-flow could be uploaded to a web-based platform or generate an animation quickly by LumenRT Geodesign for discussion and presentation. This workflow can liberate the productivity and revolutionize urban design process.
3D Visualization Tool
Extension Development of ArcGIS Pro 3.0
2016
Design and Development Lead: Tuo Sun
This visualization tool integrates Scenario Planning Model (SPM) with ESRI 3D GIS technologies (ArcGIS Pro and CityEngine) to enhance land use scenario planning for sustainable economic development. This suite of tools intends to help users to understand, measure, and evaluate impacts of various policies, such as zoning, and programs relating to transportation, land use, housing, demographics, fiscal revenues, and environments such as public health and air quality.
Image source: MIT Senseable City Lab
Image source: MIT Senseable City Lab
Image source: MIT Senseable City Lab
Image source: MIT Senseable City Lab
Image source: MIT Senseable City Lab
Image source: MIT Senseable City Lab
Roboat: First Fleet of Autonomous Boats
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016-Present
Project executed at MIT Senseable City Lab in collaboration with Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions
Roboat investigates the potential of self-driving technology to change our cities and their waterways. It is a new kind of on-demand infrastructure: autonomous platforms will combine together to form floating bridges and stages, collect waste, deliver goods, and transport people, all while collecting data about the city.
Helena Rong has designed and built an AR engagement platform for Roboat during a public exhibition in October 2018, and led the development of a model for travel optimization to museums in Amsterdam using GIS and graph model.
"Foodmate": Robotic Food Cart for CRLand (Shenzhen)
Shenzhen, China
2018
Design and Development Lead: Tony Yang
Dining is a social activity in the contemporary urban life in China. It is a typical social event where individuals gather with friends or meet acquaintances.
"Foodmate" aims to reinvent an optimized dining experience through an innovative food delivery system. The system consists of two components – a digital platform and a fleet of autonomous food delivery carts. The digital platform aims to streamline the process of choosing dining mates and the process of deciding food choices. The autonomous food delivery carts help to decide dining locations and provide pre-emptive food delivery services.
Mediaskin
2016-Present
Invented and developed by Alain Fouraux and CLFX Mediaskin
Relying on the world's leading architecture and LED display technology, Mediaskin delivers high-resolution imaging without sacrificing natural daylight and aesthetic of the architecture, allowing multiple application possibilities.
The transparent LED displays on the market, leaving cables and connectors exposed, giving it a strong presence of technical equipment.
Mediaskin is developed as a architectural component, concealing all cables and connectors. Making it indistinguishable from an architectural material.
Emotion Balloons
2018
Gare de Lyon Station, Paris, France
Designed and Developed by Helena Rong
With the advancement in AI technologies such as facial recognition and affective computing, cities not only “see” peoples’ movement in space but are able to detect their emotions and interpret how they feel. Existing in the form of a transformable and immersive balloon installation situated in the public area of the Gare de Lyon, Emotion Balloons employs camera sensors and emotion detection AI algorithm to autonomously adapt and respond to both collective and individual feelings. Captured by security cameras which typically serve to monitor traffic flows and ensure public safety, image data of the people in space is processed by an emotion detection algorithm and becomes the input which affects the form and ambient quality of the installation.
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