Luminous Planning Table (LPT)

Current status  Completed (October 2021 / November 2022)
Funding programme Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) – “Departments of Excellence” (2018-2022) (L. 232/2016) – Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU)
Project budget  € (labsimurb budget €70.000)


Luminous Planning Table (LPT) – version 1

The LPT (version 1) combines hardware and software to deliver a collaborative Phygital (Physical + Digital) platform that fosters multi-user collaboration through a multi-player approach. This interactive table allows for augmenting physical models via digital real-time projections (Digital Twin), using data of different natures. A wide range of applications are possible, e.g. collaborative urban design and architectural professional design processes, educational activities, and public participation processes. Different users can interact with each other and with the simulated environment (both physically and digitally); for instance, modifying the urban\landscape layout produces real-time reactions of the environment, e.g. by rotating a scaled building, the projection of the sunlight changes accordingly both on facades and the ground.

Some videos of the LPT are available here


Team, partners, and stakeholders

LABSIMURB TEAM \ Barbara Piga (coordinator), responsible for the design brief, overall project, and methodology.

The LPT was implemented by NovaLabs

Research Structure: Laboratorio di Simulazione Urbana Fausto Curti