Digital Twins
Living replicas of buildings, districts and whole towns — BIM, GIS and live city feeds (traffic, transport, CCTV counts, sensors) bound into one navigable model, of the place as planned or as it runs today.
Digital Twins · Planning · Engagement
Walk the city
Walk the city
before it's built.
Urban Decoders turns plans and city data into living digital twins and immersive experiences — so buyers can walk the scheme, residents can have their say, and authorities can decide with evidence. And for the city that already exists, we wire in the live feeds — traffic, transport, CCTV, air — so it can be seen as it runs.
Salford city twin · live
GIS & city data · LOD 3
Live network
Manchester · global reach
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Digital Twin
Not a render. A model that responds.
Watch a digital twin being worked, live: site dimensions, floor count and balconies rebuilt in seconds, with the areas and numbers recomputing as the sliders move. This is what every place we model can do.
Explore digital twins
Capabilities
All services
City engagement and planning, built on a living twin.
Immersive Experiences
VR journeys, AR overlays and real-time walkthroughs built on game engines — headset, touch table or a link that opens in a browser on any device.
Planning & Masterplanning
Scenario testing in 3D — massing, density, phasing, daylight, views and transit. Compare options side by side and take the evidence into the committee room.
Community Engagement
Public-facing consultation that lets residents explore the proposal, leave comments in place and be heard — turning objection into informed participation.
City Explorer
A web-based explorer for your place — layers, storylines and points of interest anyone can navigate from a link. No install, no training, no gatekeeping.
GIS, City Data & Context
Site and city context assembled from GIS layers, open data and survey records — georeferenced to a stated CRS and cleaned into the base every twin, application and visualisation is built on.
Media Tables & Installations
Interactive touch tables, kiosks and projected installations that turn a model into something a room full of people can gather around and actually use.
Place Management Platform
A live dashboard on top of the twin — assets, occupancy, environmental and footfall data — so the people running a place can see how it actually performs.
Gamified Learning
Game-engine tools that teach a place — school programmes, public exhibitions and training that make planning and the built environment something people want to explore.
The living model
Stockport SK1 · 899 real buildings
Our own town, as a living model.
Stockport town centre · drag to orbit · tap a building · red beam = our studio
Building footprints © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Live city twins
How live twins work
Not just the city to come. The city right now.
A twin doesn't have to wait for a scheme. We connect the feeds a city already publishes — traffic counters, CCTV, bus and rail APIs, air quality, footfall, energy — and visualise them on the real place, live, so the people running it can see it breathe.
Live feeds · demo data
Traffic flowSCOOT · loop counters
1,240veh/hr
CCTVCouncil network
38of 42 online
BusesBee Network · GTFS-RT
14in view
Air qualityDEFRA · AURN
23µg/m³ NO₂
FootfallWi-Fi & sensor
2,860/hr
RailDarwin · Network Rail
6next 30 min
Values above are simulated for illustration. Named sources are the kinds of public and operator feeds we integrate — TfGM / Bee Network, Network Rail Darwin, DEFRA AURN, council CCTV and traffic systems — always under the data owner's terms.
02 / Flagship Product
Epic MegaGrant Recipient
Arki Engine
Arki Engine is the flagship product of Urban Decoders' research and development. An Unreal Engine–powered, real-time design platform that brings architectural and spatial ideas to life through advanced data-driven workflows, configurable design systems, and complex geometric and analytical computation.
All wrapped in a high-fidelity visualisation environment that streamlines material choices, configuration options, and overall design efficiency — from parametric pavilions to city-scale masterplans.
Epic MegaGrant Recipient
Flagship
Office T46 · live configurator
Timber Pavilion
755-component aggregation
Office Tower T46
Parametric massing study
District Masterplan
Data-driven parcel layout
Residential Tower
Real-time facade study
Canopy Pavilion
Generative structure
Urban Plan
Context + zoning layers
Mixed-Use Tower
Configurable geometry
Waterfront Pavilion
Material configurator
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WalkthroughReal-time design in Unreal Engine
How we work
From consultation to launch in four moves.
01
Discovery
Understand the plan
We audit your masterplan, sales goals and existing assets — CAD, GIS, brand — to scope the twin and the story.
02
Strategy
Design the experience
We map the journey — buyer, resident or authority — and choose the right mix: web explorer, VR journey, media table or consultation platform.
03
Build
Model & twin
Context assembly, 3D modelling, rendering and real-time twin engineering — reviewed with you at every milestone.
04
Deploy
Launch & support
We install, train your sales team, and keep the twin synced to the plan long after opening day.
Why Urban Decoders
Not a render farm. A spatial partner.
| Capability | Freelance visualiser | Marketing agency | Urban Decoders |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data-synced digital twin | — | — | Included |
| Live city feeds (traffic, transport, CCTV, IoT) | — | — | Integrated |
| Masterplanning digital twins | — | — | Whole plan, phased |
| GIS, city data & context modelling | — | Outsourced | In-house |
| Planning & consultation engagement | — | Comms only | Platform + evidence |
| Selling units off-plan | Stills only | Campaign only | Immersive + real-time |
| On-site VR & media-table installs | — | — | Design + install |
| Web walkthrough, no headset needed | Sometimes | Yes | Yes, real-time |
| District & city scale | — | Limited | Core focus |
| Post-launch twin maintenance | — | — | Managed |
Start your project
Let's make your project impossible to ignore.
Book a consultation and we'll map the fastest path from your masterplan to an immersive experience your buyers, residents and stakeholders can step inside.