The Full infrared SDK, Inside Your Parametric Workflow
Run any climate analysis — wind, thermal, solar — at any scale, directly from Grasshopper. The results stay in your model.
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Getting Started
Learn how to get started with infrared.city and discover our step-by-step guides for climate informed design decisions
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infrared.city in ArcGIS
The infrared.city ArcGIS Pro plugin is now available. You can model how wind, sun, and thermal comfort behave across your urban designs — then add trees and watch the results render on the map in seconds. Connect once with an API key and start testing ideas, no exports required.
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infrared.city in QGIS
The infrared.city QGIS plugin is now available. Run wind, thermal comfort, and solar simulations on your urban projects — directly inside your GIS environment.
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How Materials Shape Cities Today and Tomorrow
This workflow uses projected EPW files to evaluate UTCI differentials across material substitution scenarios and compare thermal comfort outcomes between present-day and future climate conditions within a single Grasshopper canvas.
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Ground Material Impact on Microclimate Performance
This workflow integrates infrared.city’s ground material editing with parametric surface redistribution in Grasshopper to quantify how vegetation and hardscape ratios shift UTCI distributions and heat-stress exposure, enabling performance-driven open-space design decisions.
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Performance-Based Form Optimization Using Galapagos + infrared.city
This workflow couples infrared.city’s wind simulation with Galapagos to optimize massing configurations under a fixed building volume, using mesh-based wind metrics to reduce both high-speed acceleration zones and low-speed stagnation areas.
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