The City Intelligence Lab (CIL) is part of the Digital Resilient Cities Competence Unit anchored in the Center for Energy of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology.
We develop novel forms and techniques for the urban development practice of the future. Driven by AI accelerated impact assessment of urban designs in real-time, automate plan generation, data analysis and visualization we help developers, municipalities and planners to design resilient and performative cities for the future.
News
Conference Paper: The Optimization of High-Rises in Vienna
In the paper we outline a framework for the environmental performance assessment and optimisation of highrise buildings. The study exemplifies the potential of automated model generation and ML (Machine Learning) accelerated simulatios in real-time to explore a project’s performance potential.
State Prize Mobility
InFraReD was nominated for the National Award for Mobility (Staatspreis Mobilität 2021), the highest award that the Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology awards to Austrian organisations.
The “Intelligent Framework for Resilient Design”, developed in the City Intelligence Lab of AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH was nominated in the category “Research. Develop. Showing new ways”
What we do
Data Driven Urban Design
We develop fully integrated digital urban models that are directly linked to our impact assessment simulations. We automate the generation of urban designs using custom parametric models.
AI Impact Assessment
We offer AI-driven impact assessment in real-time. From microclimate simulations, wind comfort, flooding and solar potential to noise, accessibility, transit and cost estimations, our AI models enable real-time decision making.
Optimise, Analyse, Decide
We iterate through hundreds of designs and distil actionable insights from thousands of data points and simulation results to support data-driven decision making.
Co-Creation & Communication
A design is only as good as its communication. We develop tailor-made solutions for visualizing and communicating design scenarios and simulation results. From interactive web-based dashboards to VR and AR apps our models are designed to enable stakeholder engagement.
Projects
Hybrid Planner – Co-Creation
The CIL developed a hybrid planner to allow the urban co-creation using analogue models / sketches and combine them with intelligent digital models, simulation and visualisation.
Visualization Frameworks
We develop tailor-made solutions for visualizing and communicating design scenarios and simulation results.
Aspern Urban Lab
The CIL has developed an AR-based and AI-powered urban planning environment to design and analyse building blocks.