OnePlan is the Official Supporter of GIS Mapping and Digital Twin Software for Paris 2024, and our award-winning software was used to plan the Games. It includes a 3D digital twin view, VenueTwin, that any user at Paris 2024 and its stakeholders could access to provide life-like visualisations of how the venues would look – simply accessible via a web browser.
Our digital twin solution leverages some of the latest computing and processor technologies of Intel, worldwide partner of the Olympic Games. Read on and watch below how venues in central Paris were transformed virtually by organisers of Paris 2024 to streamline its operational planning.
Pont Alexandre III
This classic bridge crosses the River Seine to connect two other Paris 2024 venues: Grand Palais and Invalides. It was itself the stage for multiple sports including Triathlon and Para Triathlon, and the VenueTwin enabled organizers to scenario plan this outdoor venue.
The Organizing Committe was able to visualize the temporary overlay required, and how it affected crowd and traffic management. Its interactive features made it easy to switch between the different sports and different event sessions, as well as consider the impact of weather changes.
By planning in OnePlan’s 2D view, the objects instantly appear in the 3D VenueTwin view for a life-like visualization. With a range of temporary infrastructure, including media spaces, seating and athlete zones, the digital twin gave the organizing committee the confidence to scenario plan multiple use cases at this unique venue.
Marseille Marina
Some sports at Paris 2024 took place away from the capital city – including Sailing at Marseille Marina. The Roucas-Blanc Marina was adapted for staging a competition on the scale of the Olympic Games, and a VenueTwin of it was created to help organizers and their stakeholders plan effectively.
Event organizers from 46 different functional areas, or departments, planned in 2D and 3D, easily switching between the views. OnePlan’s software enabled the planning of sports, workforce, infrastructure, security, zones, traffic and more on land and water.
The geographically accurate plans showed where each competition for Sailing would begin, with beams of light placed in the water indicating where in the Mediterranean Sea the races start.
Aquatics Centre
The Aquatics Centre was a newly built permanent venue for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It hosted artistic swimming, diving and water polo, and the organizing committee used the VenueTwin to visualise and plan venue operations for the different events on every day.
Users from multiple Functional Areas at Paris 2024 planned in a 2D map view and could easily switch to the 3D digital twin view. This allowed them the flexibility to plan in their preferred way – an important factor with 46 Functional Areas planning in OnePlan across this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The venue district – the large space outside the Aquatics Centre – was a fundamental part of the planning process in OnePlan. It enabled the organizing committee and their stakeholders to plan for event set-ups, resource timelines, security planning, as well as crowd management.
Aquatics Centre: under the supervision of the Greater Paris Metropolitan Authority, designed by BYBAT IDF, VenhoevenCS & Ateliers 2/3/4/
Le Bourget
Along with the Aquatics Centre, Le Bourget was the only sports facility to be built specifically for Paris 2024. Home of Sport Climbing events, Le Bourget had five climbing walls used during the Games, with indoor and outdoor walls for athlete warm-ups and the competition events.
The VenueTwin for Le Bourget allowed the organizing committee to visualise how this new space would look, for athlete preparation and the competition events. The platform allowed users to ‘hyperjump’ between different spaces easily to speed up the planning process.
It also provided a great visualisation of seat views from every position. The VenueTwin gave the organizing committee an ideal way to visualise and plan all spaces for this new facility in the Seine-Saint-Denis area.
Eiffel Tower Arena
The Eiffel Tower Arena was a magical setting for the Beach Volleyball and Blind Football at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. With a capacity of 12,860 spectators, this temporary stadium provided unique sporting moments during the Games.
As with all the temporary venues for Paris 2024, this venue originally only existed in VenueTwin. It gave the organising committee and their stakeholders a hyper-realistic way to plan and visualise all aspects of the operational plan for this arena, including security, transport, crowd management, workforce planning, and more.
The 3D digital twins wins we created with Paris 2024 were fully interoperable with the 2D map views in the same system. When a plan was changed, however big or small that change, it was instantly shown in the 3D view. This gave organisers hands-on access to real-time plans for every venue so they could plan collaboratively with whoever needed access.
La Concorde
Place de la Concorde was transformed for Paris 2024 into an open arena to host urban sports in their natural environment at the heart of the city. Temporary venues hosted Skateboarding, Breaking, BMX Freestyle and 3×3 Basketball, with these spectacular sports taking place virtually non-stop for the duration of the Olympic Games.
In planning Concorde, organisers had to take into account a myriad of factors to ensure the events were safe and successful. This includes how the existing city infrastructure needed to change to accommodate these temporary venues, security scenario planning, traffic management, workforce positioning and responsibilities, fan experience, optimizing for peak sporting conditions and so much more.
This was all visualized in our state-of-the-art VenueTwin software, which can be viewed by any stakeholder any time, from anywhere. It reduced the time and costs of planning the Games, thanks to our powerful cloud-based solution that’s easy for anyone to use.
Invalides
The Esplanade des Invalides is one of Paris’ preferred leisure destinations where locals and tourists enjoy sport, music and walking. For the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it was transformed into a show-stopping venue for Archery, Para-Archery and other sports.
The Invalides VenueTwin that we created with Paris 2024 showed how event organisers planned with temporary infrastructure on existing city environments. The centimetre-accurate placement of crowd infrastructure includes how fans with additional access needs were able to easily access the venue and have excellent views of the action.
When planning operations at Invalides using the VenueTwin visualisations, organisers were able to view how the venue would look at different times of day and in different weather conditions. This is an innovative way in which the Paris 2024 organising committee was able to plan the Games with multiple scenarios in mind, and plan for any potential scenario.
