Virtual reality simulation in urban design processes: Comparative workflow assessment and implementation outcomes

IF 5.9 2区工程技术 Q1 ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Ain Shams Engineering Journal Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI:10.1016/j.asej.2025.103671

Ahmed Sayed Ali , Samy Afifi , Samah El Khateeb , Mohamed A. El Fayoumi , Omar Mohamed ElHusseiny

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Abstract

Urban design presents risks of decision-making, such as spatial comprehension, coordination of the stakeholders, and successive check-ups. This paper will explore one of the simulation tools known as Virtual Reality (VR) to intensify these processes in a real urban development project. The two workflows were compared using a business park case in the Cairo exit in Almaza, Heliopolis, namely conventional and VR-augmented design. They identified seven stages of design and those tools of VR were employed to observe one of the teams and the other one used the traditional method of working. The results were tested on six criteria such as efficiency in process, teamwork and stakeholder involvement. Findings indicated that the VR-aided team was more effective than the conventional team, particularly in the participation, spatial awareness and iteration speed. VR has significant positive effects in decision making, allows more interaction, and fosters flexibility in urban design workflows.

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城市设计过程中的虚拟现实模拟：比较工作流程评估和实施结果

城市设计存在决策风险，如空间理解、利益相关者的协调、连续检查等。本文将探讨一种被称为虚拟现实（VR）的模拟工具，以在真实的城市发展项目中加强这些过程。在Heliopolis Almaza开罗出口的一个商业园区案例中，对这两种工作流程进行了比较，即传统设计和vr增强设计。他们确定了设计的七个阶段，这些虚拟现实工具被用来观察一个团队，另一个使用传统的工作方法。结果在六个标准上进行了测试，如流程效率、团队合作和利益相关者参与。研究结果表明，vr辅助团队比传统团队更有效，特别是在参与性、空间意识和迭代速度方面。VR在决策方面具有显著的积极作用，允许更多的互动，并促进城市设计工作流程的灵活性。

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Ain Shams Engineering Journal Engineering-General Engineering

CiteScore

10.80

自引率

13.30%

发文量

441

审稿时长

49 weeks

期刊介绍： in Shams Engineering Journal is an international journal devoted to publication of peer reviewed original high-quality research papers and review papers in both traditional topics and those of emerging science and technology. Areas of both theoretical and fundamental interest as well as those concerning industrial applications, emerging instrumental techniques and those which have some practical application to an aspect of human endeavor, such as the preservation of the environment, health, waste disposal are welcome. The overall focus is on original and rigorous scientific research results which have generic significance. Ain Shams Engineering Journal focuses upon aspects of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, environmental engineering, architectural and urban planning engineering. Papers in which knowledge from other disciplines is integrated with engineering are especially welcome like nanotechnology, material sciences, and computational methods as well as applied basic sciences: engineering mathematics, physics and chemistry.