Sanjay Somanath

Doctoral Student at Building Technology

Sanjay Somanath is a PhD student in the Department of Architecture and Civil engineering. The focus of his research is Social sustainability in neighbourhoods, specialising in computational design methods and GIS. The goal of the research is to create a framework to analyse social sustainability in the built environment through digital tools.
Social sustainability is often considered and underdeveloped and under-theorised subject. One of the main reasons cited for this to be the case is a lack of tools and methods to extract and compare data regarding the social sphere. This research currently deals with data management and processing techniques to allow architects, planners and policymakers to explore and make meaningful inferences from this data within a digital design environment and integrate it into their existing workflows.
Sanjay earned his bachelor’s degree in Architecture from BMSCE Bangalore, India and a master’s degree in Digital Architecture and Tectonics from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. He has previously worked in Qatar as an architect and in the UK as a computational designer, optimising digital design and manufacturing workflows through an Innovate UK KTP. Sanjay is also the recipient of a Santander fellowship project that explored reducing thermal heat gain in greenhouses. Sanjay has also conducted workshops on parametric design in the UK, Egypt and India.

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Showing 17 publications

2024

Towards Urban Digital Twins: A Workflow for Procedural Visualization Using Geospatial Data

Sanjay Somanath, Vasilis Naserentin, Orfeas Eleftheriou et al
Remote Sensing. Vol. 16 (11)
Journal article
2024

An activity-based synthetic population of Gothenburg, Sweden: Dataset of residents in neighbourhoods

Sanjay Somanath, Liane Thuvander, Alexander Hollberg
Data in Brief. Vol. 57
Journal article
2024

Sentiment and semantic analysis: Urban quality inference using machine learning algorithms

Emily Ho, Michelle Schneider, Sanjay Somanath et al
iScience. Vol. 27 (7)
Journal article
2024

Towards Urban Digital Twins: A Workflow for Procedural Visualization Using Geospatial Data

Sanjay Somanath, Vasilis Naserentin, Orfeas Eleftheriou et al
Remote Sensing. Vol. 16 (11)
Journal article
2024

Towards digital twinning for multi-domain simulation workflows in urban design: a case study in Gothenburg

Alex Arnoldo Gonzalez Caceres, Franziska Hunger, Jens Forssén et al
Journal of Building Performance Simulation. Vol. In Press
Journal article
2023

Application and validation of a method to assess the energy reduction and environmental impact of renovation alternatives

Alex Arnoldo Gonzalez Caceres, Sanjay Somanath, Jacob Forsberg et al
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Vol. 1196 (1)
Paper in proceeding
2022

Evaluation of social facilities coverage: A case study of Sofia city

Stoyan Boyukliyski, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, Sanjay Somanath
IFAC-PapersOnLine. Vol. 55 (11), p. 48-53
Paper in proceeding
2022

Procedural digital twin generation for co-creating in VR focusing on vegetation

Liane Thuvander, Sanjay Somanath, Alexander Hollberg
International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives. Vol. XLVIII-4/W5-2022, p. 189-196
Paper in proceeding
2022

Effects of Sustainability Policy – Evaluating Social Consequences of Carbon Targets using Trip Completion Rates

Sanjay Somanath, Alexander Hollberg, Liane Thuvander
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Vol. 1078 (1)
Paper in proceeding
2022

Towards digitalisation of urban social sustainability

Sanjay Somanath
Licentiate thesis
2022

Combining Open Source and Commercial Tools in Digital Twin for Cities Generation

Vasilis Naserentin, Sanjay Somanath, Orfeas Eleftheriou et al
IFAC-PapersOnLine. Vol. 55 (11), p. 185-189
Paper in proceeding
2021

AI-baserad segementering av fasader för att optimera renovering i en större skala

Sanjay Somanath, Yinan Yu, Nils Nordmark et al
Bygg och teknik. Vol. 2021 (2), p. 26-29
Magazine article
2021

Towards digitalisation of socially sustainable neighbourhood design

Sanjay Somanath, Alexander Hollberg, Liane Thuvander
Local Environment. Vol. 26 (6), p. 770-789
Journal article
2021

MiljöVis: Effektiv representation av miljödata i digitala modeller

Beata Stahre Wästberg, Monica Billger, Liane Thuvander et al
Report - The Swedish Transport Administration
2021

A user interaction model for digital tools to support socially sustainable neighbourhood planning

Sanjay Somanath, Alexander Hollberg, Liane Thuvander
Other conference contribution
2020

Towards digitisation of socially sustainable neighbourhood design

Sanjay Somanath, Alexander Hollberg, Liane Thuvander
Other conference contribution
2020

The relation between social life cycle assessment and green building certification systems

Sanjay Somanath, Alexander Hollberg, Sjouke Beemsterboer et al
Conference poster

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Showing 4 research projects

2022–2022

Extracting amenity demand and visitation profiles from mobile phone location data

Jorge Gil Urban Design and Planning
Alexander Hollberg Building Technology
Sanjay Somanath Building Technology
Liane Thuvander Architectural theory and methods
Chalmers

2022–2023

Urban modelling and planning tool for energy and invisible environmental factors using AI methods

Alexander Hollberg Building Technology
Vasilis Naserentin Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Jens Forssén Applied Acoustics
Anders Logg Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Beata Stahre Wästberg Interaction design
Yinan Yu Functional Programming
Sanjay Somanath Building Technology
Andreas Mark Fluid Dynamics
Dag Wästberg Research - Architectural Theory and Method
Franziska Hunger C3SE
AoA Energy

1 publication exists
2021–2021

Climate adapted equal Gothenburg: The digital twin as a meeting place for discussion and co-creation

Monica Billger Architectural theory and methods
Sanjay Somanath Building Technology
Beata Stahre Wästberg Interaction design
Malgorzata Zboinska Architectural theory and methods
Urban Futures - Centre for Sustainable Urban Futures

2020–2024

Digital Twin Cities Centre

Anders Logg Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Jonas Runberger Architectural theory and methods
Liane Thuvander Architectural theory and methods
Vasilis Naserentin Digital Twin Cities Centre
Jorge Gil Urban Design and Planning
Bernd Ketzler Digital Twin Cities Centre
Lars Marcus Urban Design and Planning
Johan Felix Digital Twin Cities Centre
Meta Berghauser Pont Urban Design and Planning
Fredrik Nilsson Architecture and Civil Engineering
Alexander Hollberg Building Technology
Sanjay Somanath Building Technology
Malgorzata Zboinska Architectural theory and methods
Leonardo Rosado Water Environment Technology
Fredrik Edelvik Digital Twin Cities Centre
Graham Kemp Data Science
Minna Karstunen Geology and Geotechnics
Mattias Roupé Construction Management
Mikael Johansson Construction Management
VINNOVA

68 publications exist
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