3D Simulator Helps Santiago become a Sustainable City

The City of Santiago is working to make progress on many key urban challenges including reducing inequality, minimizing pollution, revitalizing public space and improving mobility. To inform their planning decisions, the city needed a way to better understand and quantify public opinion and use that data to assess the impacts of different redevelopment scenarios not only locally but across the entire city.

First Siradel did a city scan which calculated more than 120 urban indicators classified by political issue to help the city better understand the issues most important to their residents, and define their urban redevelopment priorities.

This data was made available to all city stakeholders to get a shared and unique data referential and residents of Santiago via the city's website. Then, Siradel was able to leverage that data and model the impact of different downtown redevelopment projects using 3D technology at different scales (region, metropolitan area and city, specific projects). This helped the city to understand, through a virtual deployment, how different built or natural projects would impact the urban space. Within each proposed redevelopment project, the city was able to test out various water, waste, energy, transport technologies to understand how different scenarios would change.