2023-12-29 11:03:16
In 2050, there will be almost 10 billion people in the world. These people must be housed; and these homes must be safe, affordable and, increasingly, sustainable. A whole new generation of innovative construction approaches is needed.
This was the central mission of our Building Tomorrow project. Throughout the project, Dassault Systèmes teams sought to demonstrate how virtual solutions can allow us to totally transform the way we collaborate, design and operate buildings with carbon neutrality in mind, even the largest structures.
Like the Eiffel Tower, for example.
But no building, no matter how large, exists outside its environment. Designing, constructing and operating any new building means taking this into account from the beginning. From the beginning of the project, the Dassault Systèmes City design team wanted this new tower to be an organic part of Paris, responding to the city’s challenges and helping to advance its sustainable goals.
Sustainable urban development has entered a new era, affected by demographic and regulatory pressures, climate change and a new scale of short and long-term challenges that are difficult to predict. Cities are putting sustainable urban planning at the center of their agendas and must increasingly meet rapidly evolving citizen expectations for better lives in resilient and attractive environments.
The success of this agenda depends on the ability of cities to overcome critical issues. These include reducing CO2 emissions, limiting the consumption of construction materials, improving water management and waste management systems and developing reliable and safe urban transport networks.
In the context of Paris, the design team in charge of the new tower considered the following sustainability drivers:
· Limit CO2 emissions and the consumption of natural resources
· Contributing to combating urban heat islands
· Develop aesthetically pleasing designs.
· Commit to the needs of citizens
Taking these challenges into account, the concept chosen for the new tower was that of a “Vertical Garden”, responding to Paris’ ambition to become a safe, smart and sustainable city, and offer a better quality of life to its inhabitants.
The key to the development process was the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE® platform. The solution provides a digital environment that allows cities and territories to create value for their citizens, reducing costs and risks, and placing sustainability at the center of operations.
To kick off the project, our team of experts created a virtual twin of the new tower. This leverages comprehensive data sets (including 3D modeling and simulation) to create what-if scenarios, using stored data, including information from both internal and external stakeholders.
Additionally, the platform provides a common, secure workplace where all parties can interact with each other and the project as it evolves. Work there is carried out within clear guidelines, ensuring consistent review processes and ongoing compliance with data policies.
Through simulations, we were able to analyze specific parameters such as the height of the building to understand its potential impact on the neighborhood in terms of the shade it would cause, how it could affect airflow, and whether it was at risk of becoming a heat island. The water consumption needs of the tower’s vegetation were also modeled, helping to further promote sustainable operations. The platform allowed us:
Understand the initial situation and how to address challenges by aggregating and analyzing up-to-date data from a wide range of sources along the value chain. Design the future tower, analyzing the impact and cost of different construction scenarios using a virtual twin of both the project and the city. Boost collaboration with the virtual twin: a single source of truth accessible to all stakeholders and organizations: architects, designers, urban planners, local authorities, suppliers and citizens. Clear communication with information about why decisions were made and what value they bring to all relevant project stakeholders.
The virtual twin helps understand vital differences, enabling data sharing, easy collaboration, and monitoring of project implementation, all in one place. This is how the virtual world improves the real world and encourages decision-making based on sustainability.
The video below details how the team opted for the Vertical Garden approach and how simulation solutions helped us design a plan to fit this ambitious vision.
As the world’s population becomes increasingly urban, the problem of how to integrate new projects into the existing urban fabric is increasingly universal.
It is a great challenge. But it is not insurmountable. As the Building Tomorrow team has demonstrated, we have an ever-growing set of tools that can help us understand and plan projects from the start, allowing us to achieve truly innovative urban transformation.
Press contact: Heidi Rangel (+52) 55 38975341
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