A Tool for Visualizing Ontario’s Housing Future

The Gentle Density Interactive Learning project culminated in a tool that allows users to visualize changes to an urban neighborhood if gentle density was wildly adopted. The idea for this project came when Franz from Liveable Ontario wanted to find a way to educate developers and young adults on the validity of gentle density as an approach to combat the growing financial issue in Ontario.

This tool ended by becoming a web application made in Unity Engine. It is easy to access, easy to understand and gives the user the ability to change the suburban Ontario neighborhood by adjusting a population density slider. By changing the population, the properties get modified in a way that can support more people. These changes could be a new division in the home, another floor added or an exterior building added to the backyard.

SIRT utilized their software and design skills to succeed in delivering a prototype that the client can take to investors to fund the next version of the application.