Building toward a living
digital mirror of Australian housing.
Our research explores digital twins at property, street, suburb, and city scale — so planners, designers, and investors can see the impact of a build before it exists.
Digital twins shouldn't be novelties — they should be decision infrastructure. A planner seeing how a new building changes street-level flow. An investor seeing how a development fits its neighbourhood. This is the infrastructure we're researching and building toward.
Four levels. One research vision.
From a single building to an entire city — the scales our digital-twin research is working toward.
Property — highest detail
3D building and site models: massing, setbacks, shadow and view impacts.
Included Parameters
- • Detailed structural massing envelopes
- • Boundary constraints and setback checks
- • Interactive overshadowing calculations
- • Sightlines & localised view corridors
Research Goal
To automate design review and build a seamless visualisation pipeline for zoning compliance, accelerating the feedback cycle for developers and planning councils alike.
See before you build.
For Planners
Model what a development does to a street before it's approved. Evaluate microclimate changes, overshadowing, and public flows objectively.
For Investors
Understand how a project fits its neighbourhood and its risk. Identify planning constraints and environmental hazards before investing.
For Designers
See the finished product in real context, not just on paper. Design and iterate directly inside the surrounding suburb model.
"Every approval, every investment, every design improves when you can see it in 3D first."
Research grounded in real projects.
This research isn't abstract. It's grounded in the real development data flowing through the DDDI group — every project the group analyses, manages, and builds adds to what the twin can learn from. The twin grows as the group grows.
Want to shape this research?
We partner with planners, universities, and forward-looking developers to advance digital-twin research for Australian housing.