Complexity (Jan 2021)

The Camp Nou Stadium as a Testbed for City Physiology: A Modular Framework for Urban Digital Twins

  • Irene Meta,
  • Feliu Serra-Burriel,
  • José C. Carrasco-Jiménez,
  • Fernando M. Cucchietti,
  • Carla Diví-Cuesta,
  • Carlos García Calatrava,
  • David García,
  • Eduardo Graells-Garrido,
  • Germán Navarro,
  • Quim Làzaro,
  • Patricio Reyes,
  • Diego Navarro-Mateu,
  • Alex Gil Julian,
  • Imanol Eguskiza Martínez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9731180
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2021

Abstract

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In this paper, the Camp Nou stadium is used as a testbed for City Physiology, a theoretical framework for urban digital twins. With this case study, the modularity and adaptability of the framework, originally intended for city-scale simulations, are tested on a large facility venue. As a proof of concept, several statistical techniques and an agent-based simulation platform are coupled to simulate a crowd in the stadium, and a process of four steps is followed to build the case study. Both the conceptual (interdomain) and technical (domain specific) layers of the digital twin are defined and connected in a nonlinear process so that they represent the complexity of the object to be simulated. The result obtained is a strategy to build a digital twin from the domain point of view, paving the way for more complex, more ambitious simulators.