The ClimaSens project, funded under the COMET Module program line of FFG, aims to create a highly parallelized, holistic urban environmental model, considering all essential physical, thermal, and fluid processes in the urban context in a coupled way to allow for new and fully interactive planning workflows.
Main research goals
Our goal is to couple a physically correct microclimate model with existing models of other environmental variables, greatly accelerate it through alternative computational methods, and based on these technological advancements, create novel inclusive workflows for interactive, real-time, climate-sensitive urban planning and communication tasks.
Individual projects
ClimaSens is combining visual computing, environmental modeling, and participatory techniques towards a holistic and inclusive approach to climate-sensitive urban planning. This interdisciplinary approach requires basic, high-risk, domain-specific research in high-performance environmental simulation and research in immersive interfaces and public engagement for the design of resilient cities.
The specific research aspects will be addressed in three interdependent projects that will run concurrently over the ClimaSens module duration of four years.
Interactive Microclimate Modeling for Decision Support: Project 1 considers the design of a microclimate model with high technical performance and cost effectiveness.
Holistic Urban Environmental Modeling: Project 2 considers modeling of the entire urban climate system including microclimate, hydrology, and pollution.
Immersive Explorative Workflows for Non-Practitioners: Project 3 considers the design of interactive immersive workflows for urban microclimate communication and assessment for different target groups.
Project structure
The following Figure provides an overview of all components of the planned research within the three projects and the relations between them, which are encoded in color. In gray, we visualize knowledge and technologies that already exist in heterogeneous form and disconnected from each other. In purple, we indicate the required components and connections to realize our envisioned interactive workflow for climate-sensitive urban planning, the main research output of the COMET Module. The specific research results of the individual projects that contribute to this workflow are colored in pink (Project 1), orange (Project 2), and blue (Project 3).
Senior Researcher, Head of Research Incubator, ClimaSens
vuckovic(at)vrvis.atStart: 01.2024
End: 12.2027
TU Wien, BOKU Wien, Universität Bonn, greenpass GmbH, Henning Larsen Architects, Rosinak & Partner ZT GmbH, Wien 3420 aspern Development AG
FFG - COMET Modul, Wirtschaftsagentur Wien
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