Download QGIS Plugin
The infrared.city QGIS plugin is now available. Run wind, thermal comfort, and solar simulations on your urban projects — directly inside your GIS environment.
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Getting Started
Learn how to get started with infrared.city and discover our step-by-step guides for climate informed design decisions
How Materials Shape Cities Today and Tomorrow
This workflow uses projected EPW files to evaluate UTCI differentials across material substitution scenarios and compare thermal comfort outcomes between present-day and future climate conditions within a single Grasshopper canvas.
· 8 min readGround Material Impact on Microclimate Performance
This workflow integrates infrared.city’s ground material editing with parametric surface redistribution in Grasshopper to quantify how vegetation and hardscape ratios shift UTCI distributions and heat-stress exposure, enabling performance-driven open-space design decisions.
· 7 min readPerformance-Based Form Optimization Using Galapagos + infrared.city
This workflow couples infrared.city’s wind simulation with Galapagos to optimize massing configurations under a fixed building volume, using mesh-based wind metrics to reduce both high-speed acceleration zones and low-speed stagnation areas.
· 8 min readMapping Heat-Trapped Zones with Grasshopper Connector
This tutorial walks through a complete Grasshopper workflow for multi-parameter filtering — from project setup and geometry updates to threshold-based visualization. See how intersecting thermal comfort and wind speed results can uncover microclimate risks and support evidence-based design refinement.
· 5 min readGetting started: Post-Process Your infrared.city Results
Build KPI workflows in Grasshopper with the infrared.city plugin—post-process thermal comfort, compare scenarios, and assess interventions with custom metrics.
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