Sanjay Somanath
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.
Showing 13 publications
Evaluation of social facilities coverage: A case study of Sofia city
Procedural digital twin generation for co-creating in VR focusing on vegetation
Combining Open Source and Commercial Tools in Digital Twin for Cities Generation
AI-baserad segementering av fasader för att optimera renovering i en större skala
Towards digitalisation of socially sustainable neighbourhood design
MiljöVis: Effektiv representation av miljödata i digitala modeller
A user interaction model for digital tools to support socially sustainable neighbourhood planning
Towards digitisation of socially sustainable neighbourhood design
The relation between social life cycle assessment and green building certification systems
Download publication list
You can download this list to your computer.
Filter and download publication list
As logged in user (Chalmers employee) you find more export functions in MyResearch.
You may also import these directly to Zotero or Mendeley by using a browser plugin. These are found herer:
Zotero Connector
Mendeley Web Importer
The service SwePub offers export of contents from Research in other formats, such as Harvard and Oxford in .RIS, BibTex and RefWorks format.
Showing 4 research projects
Extracting amenity demand and visitation profiles from mobile phone location data
Urban modelling and planning tool for energy and invisible environmental factors using AI methods
Climate adapted equal Gothenburg: The digital twin as a meeting place for discussion and co-creation