As the Official Supporter of Digital Twin Software for Paris 2024, Venue Twin was used to visualize the venues. The award-winning 3D digital twin software meant Paris 2024 and its stakeholders could access life-like visualisations of how the venues would look – simply via a web browser.
Our digital twin solution leveraged some of the latest computing and processor technologies of Intel, worldwide partner of the Olympic Games.
Pont Alexandre III: Triathlon
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.
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: Sailing
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 the digital twin software. 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: Swimming
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.
The venue district – the large space outside the Aquatics Centre – was a fundamental part of the venue plans. By visualizing it in VenueTwin, the organizing committee and stakeholders were able to visually plan the event set-ups, security and crowd management.
Aquatics Centre: under the supervision of the Greater Paris Metropolitan Authority, designed by BYBAT IDF, VenhoevenCS & Ateliers 2/3/4/
Le Bourget: Climbing
Home of Sport Climbing events, Le Bourget was a newly built venue for Paris 2024. It 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. Users created ‘Bookmarks’ to easily jump between locations in the digital twin, 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: Beach Volleyball
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 provided a hyper-realistic way to visualize the operational plan for this arena, including security, transport, crowd management, workforce planning, and more.
The digital twins wins we created with Paris 2024 were geo-accurate and allowed users to see space measurements and adjust plans accordingly.
La Concorde: Urban Sports
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 included how the existing city infrastructure needed to change to accommodate these temporary venues, security scenario planning, traffic management, workforce positioning, fan experience, optimizing for peak sporting conditions and so much more.
This was all visualized life-like in VenueTwin, helping to reduce the time and costs of planning the Games.
Invalides: Archery
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.