Getting started: Setup your account and first project

In this tutorial you will learn how to quickly create a trial account on infrared.city and how to setup your first project in less than 10 minutes.

infrared.city offers real-time environmental simulations that can help architects and urban planners deliver an efficient data driven design process and optimize environmental performance of their designs.

You can view your current projects by clicking on the top right menu and selecting: My projects.

If you have a new account, this section should be empty.

You can enter the project creation workflow by clicking: Create a new project near the search bar

On the Create New Project dropdown, add a project name and an optional description. These will be useful to find the relevant project later on.

Find your project location by using the address search bar. To ensure that the correct location is used and avoid spelling errors, please select the best match from the suggestions list that appear while typing.

It's important to note, that although the world map is navigable at this point, you will need to enter the project address in the search bar in order to move to the next step.

Once the map is aligned to your desired location, you are asked to select a weather data file in order to continue. You can chose to upload your own .EPW file or select the closest file available in our database.

Weather files, or .EPW's are a collection of data that represents the "Typical Meteorological Year" for a particular location. These files are publicly available on online repositories, and contain an averaged representation of hourly weather measurements collected at a local weather station over a period of 10 years.

You will be able to inspect and visualize this data in our Climate Dashboard module once your project is set up.

Click: In current location in order to associate the closest available weather data file.

The weather station reference as well as infrared.city models available in this location will be displayed here.

Please note that while our Wind related simulations are available globally, other simulations may be available in limited locations. Please use the report button on the lower left corner to register your request for a particular location.

You will now begin defining the exact analysis area for your project.

A 500 x 500 meter rectangle will appear on the screen as a boundary for analysis. You can reposition the analysis area by dragging the pin point to your preffered location

It is best practice to set the pin in the center of your new design site, ensuring therefore that there is enough urban context to provide information for the analysis

At this point, with the analysis area set, you can chose to download and make editable the 3d urban context you see on the map, or fully replace this with your own 3d site model.

Note, this is not your design model, but rather the context around it. You will have an opportunity to upload your design model at a later stage.

For the purpose of this tutorial we will download the existing 3d context. Click, Get context geometries.

Press: Create project to complete the project creation workflow, and have your settings saved.