{"id":529322,"date":"2022-09-28T06:11:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=529322"},"modified":"2025-05-08T19:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T02:34:38","slug":"designers-use-prague-digital-twin","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/designers-use-prague-digital-twin","title":{"rendered":"In Prague, Urban Designers Chart a New Future for a Historic Neighborhood"},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10862],"tags":[26512,21622,471342,474182,481062],"industry":[],"esri-blog-category":[478472,492462],"esri_blog_department":[492402],"class_list":["post-529322","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esri","tag-climate-change","tag-digital-twin","tag-microclimate","tag-prague","tag-unesco","esri-blog-category-resilience","esri-blog-category-revitalization","esri_blog_department-urban-planning"],"acf":{"video_source":"","video_start":"","video_stop":"","short_description":"Prague uses a digital twin to consider connectivity and livability in a neighborhood that suffered from industrial impacts and a rail yard rift.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"In Prague, an urban design competition focused on turning an industrial area into a vibrant neighborhood, restoring the connectivity of its historic past.\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>New development in the Florenc neighborhood preserves the values of the past while acknowledging the challenges of the future.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>The Florenc 21 competition helped Prague maintain its historic center as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>A new climate-resilient plan for the Florenc neighborhood includes nature-based solutions to cool a heat island.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prague, one of Europe\u2019s fastest-growing cities, faces an ongoing struggle to reconcile dynamism and preservation. Urban development trends in the Czech Republic\u2019s capital evince a clear desire to restore prior modes of living\u2014not for the sake of nostalgia, but because they offer improvements in livability.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much of this activity is occurring in brownfields that were once home to rail terminals and other transportation infrastructure. One of the largest brownfields, near the historic center of Prague, is Florenc, a neighborhood on the edge of New Town, a quarter established in the 14th century.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through its own work, and by promoting the work of like-minded planners and designers, Prague's Institute of Planning and Development (IPR Prague) employs a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/digital-twin\/overview\">digital twin<\/a> of Prague that lives within the city's geographic information system (GIS). The twin helps planners and designers strike the right balance with new development that addresses climate pressures while improving the lives of residents.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many projects focus on reducing the rift\u2014created by the city's main rail lines nearly 200 years ago\u2014that destroyed surface connections between neighborhoods while rail opened up connections to the rest of Europe.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent years, IPR Prague has taken a special interest in determining how climate change will affect and alter the city. Using GIS, the city's planners construct 3D models of Prague's microclimates. These models provide a way to simulate the effect of mitigation strategies before they are implemented, using the digital twin to design based on outcomes that are then tested.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The Future of Florenc<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The modern character of Florenc was formed half a millennium after the founding of New Town when rail replaced the old patterns of the city. \"It's basically a 19th-century development, an old industrial and residential quarter,\" Ji\u0159\u00ed \u010ctyrok\u00fd, IPR Prague's director of spatial information, said last year.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[529482,529372,529362,541492]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Florenc is also, \u010ctyrok\u00fd noted, one of Prague\u2019s largest brownfields, a contaminated remnant of the area\u2019s industrial past and the modern transportation infrastructure that now dominates the locale. These attributes\u2014a nest of rail lines; a large bus station; a major subway transfer point; a clogged arterial road; and the Negrelli Viaduct, which carries trains over the Vltava River\u2014have made Florenc less a neighborhood to live in and more a place to travel through.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the next few years, the Florenc brownfield will be cleared, replaced with housing for 1,600 new residents and 3,200 job opportunities. IPR Prague models show that this development risks creating heat islands and intense warming in Florenc.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"That's exactly the kind of place where it\u2019s worth implementing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/prague-extreme-heat-spurs-climate-action\/\">microclimate modeling<\/a>, because it's a place where massive change will occur, and we want to see how it will work,\" \u010ctyrok\u00fd said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>International Teams Ponder Florenc\u2019s Future<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, IPR Prague helped organize <a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/616\/\">Florenc 21<\/a>, an architectural competition that attracted 57 teams of architects and urban designers from around the world. Each team submitted ideas for how to reorient Florenc around the coming changes.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judges short-listed five finalists, who then developed their designs into overall plans. All finalists received access to IPR Prague's digital twin of the city to use for their presentations.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"We thought about creating a physical model of the competition area, where all participants could input physical models of their proposals,\u201d said Lubo\u0161 Kri\u017ean, an urban planner with IPR Prague's Office of Territorial Support. \u201cBut it would've been extremely expensive and complicated for us to make the whole model available to all five competitors, and it would take a lot of time to do so.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo we thought, Why not use a digital twin and web app to share the model of the neighborhood?\u201d \u010ctyrok\u00fd said. \u201cIt would be cheaper and more flexible.\u201d<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":529462,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/app.iprpraha.cz\/apl\/app\/model3d\/?lang=en"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sam Blan\u00e1r, an IPR Prague developer, pulled the 3D model for Florenc, and used GIS to create an app that all participants could explore. Using the app, the finalists were able to blend their plans into the digital twin.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the past, \u010ctyrok\u00fd explained, IPR Prague would sometimes augment finalized design proposals by asking the winning bidder for data. \u201cThen we\u2019d put it into the digital twin,\u201d he said. \u201cBut this was the first time the 3D model was used in real decision-making during a competition.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This provided a standardized view that enabled the Florenc 21 judges to compare the entries. It also allowed them to make informed judgments about \"massing\" (an architectural term that describes how a building design fits into its surroundings) with a level of detail not possible with either standard two-dimensional plans and images or visualizations that are aesthetically pleasing but contain little useful information.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expats.cz\/czech-news\/article\/future-look-of-the-prague-s-neglected-florenc-area-unveiled\">team that won Florenc 21<\/a> was composed of two architectural studios from the Czech Republic and one from the UK. Filip Tittl of UNIT architekti, one of the winning firms, described the unique infrastructural and topographical constraints that made reimagining Florenc a challenge: the arterial road, railway bridge, subway tunnels, rights-of-way for future subway lines, and land that rises as one moves away from the riverbank. \u201cAll of this creates one of the most complex places in central Europe,\u201d Tittl said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Connectivity Returns<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In keeping with IPR Prague\u2019s interest in how Florenc will fare in an era of climate change, the winning team integrated sustainable energy sources and microclimate research into its design. Vegetation is strategically placed to mitigate heat islands, and a ventilated street design should maximize the cooling effect of the predominant winds.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Climate change is not the only issue that affects the rethinking around Florenc. The process also reflects a return to certain values that were once the basis of how people thought about cities.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Town existed for 500 years before the establishment of the Masaryk train station brought rail transit to Prague. The station, which cut off Florenc from New Town, began the area\u2019s shift to being oriented around mechanized travel and industry and away from being an intimate neighborhood where everything residents needed was within walking distance.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[529422,529412,529402]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The result was a region in which connectivity\u2014the promotion of walkability and pedestrian flows\u2014was increasingly narrowed and blocked. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masaryckaspojuje.cz\/en\/\">major Masaryk renovation<\/a> that began as part of another urban architecture competition, in 2009, has sought to restore that connectivity.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among these changes is the reestablishment of pedestrian and cycling interconnections among three major streets that the station once blocked. Gardens that were once replaced by tracks have reemerged as part of the station\u2019s roofing.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt the time of its establishment, the station was proof of the modernization of the city and its economic progress,\u201d the project\u2019s website states. \u201cLikewise, the proposal now works with the demands of the 21<sup>st<\/sup>century, jobs in the new-economy sectors, strategic location on the transport hub, and support for pedestrian links.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Florenc 21 has further refined the values of connectivity and livability so that Florenc the transport hub is now subsumed into Florenc the neighborhood and is no longer an island. The <a href=\"https:\/\/florenc21.eu\/Upload\/2021\/11\/16\/urb_flo21_panely_team24.pdf\">winning proposal<\/a> includes multifunctional buildings, an urban market, and retail stalls under the viaduct\u2019s arches. IPR Prague praised the winning team\u2019s vision of a \u201chighly permeable neighborhood that connects all the surrounding neighborhoods and heals the wounds left behind by the construction of transport infrastructure in Florenc.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>International Recognition of the Efforts <\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1992, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated Prague\u2019s Historic Center, an area that includes part of Florenc, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/616\/\">World Heritage Site<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When UNESCO granted the area world heritage status, it noted how the region \u201cadmirably illustrates the process of continuous urban growth from the Middle Ages to the present day.\u201d Nearly two decades later, Prague\u2019s post-Cold War expansion caused UNESCO to reconsider, noting in 2019 that the <a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/616\/\">integrity of the area<\/a> is \u201cthreatened by the pressure of developers wishing to build oversized new buildings.\u201d<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[529502,529532,529522,529512]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UNESCO made it clear that, should unchecked growth continue, the Historic Center could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expats.cz\/czech-news\/article\/prague-may-go-on-world-heritage-in-danger-list-warns-unesco\">lose<\/a> its world heritage status. Florenc 21 is a signal to UNESCO that the city is serious about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/infrastructure-management\">smart infrastructure management<\/a> these development pressures.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor the people from UNESCO and Prague's heritage office, it\u2019s extremely important to look at panoramic views, to see how structures would work with surroundings,\u201d Kri\u017ean said. The digital twin allowed designers to consider these values throughout the design process. UNESCO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expats.cz\/czech-news\/article\/unesco-praises-new-developments-renovations-in-prague\">lauded<\/a> the winner\u2019s potential to better reveal the exceptional value of this part of Prague.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The web app made it easy to understand the effect a proposal would have on viewsheds, displaying\u2014in realistic terms\u2014the impact any addition would have on these views. Blan\u00e1r designed the app to include some noteworthy preloaded perspectives, such as the view from the Prague Castle, which dates back to the ninth century.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"The judges could check it out using the 3D model,\" he explained. \"We had prechosen a few spots that showed some of the most beautiful and panoramic scenes of Prague, and there was a tool to click on them which rotated the scene into the proper position so that everyone could look and instantly compare the spots on the proposals.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next step will be to undertake a feasibility study for the proposal. IPR Prague is optimistic the plan will withstand the scrutiny. \u201cFlorenc is <a href=\"https:\/\/iprpraha.cz\/page\/3977\/the-new-face-of-florenc-will-be-designed-by-architects-from-unit-a69-and-marko-placemakers\">a scar on the city of Prague<\/a>,\u201d Ond\u0159ej Boh\u00e1\u010d, IPR Prague\u2019s director, bluntly noted, \u201cwhich will finally be healed, thanks to this competition.\u201d<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/arcgis-urban\/overview\">3D models are transforming smart city planning<\/a>.<\/p>"}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prague Digital Twin Charts New Future for Historic Neighborhood<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prague designers use a digital twin to consider connectivity and livability in a historic 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