Bancho Digital Twin: 2026 Tokyo Smart City Studio

The 2026 Tokyo Smart City Studio was a selective, six-credit international studio bringing together Georgia Tech city-planning and architecture students with collaborators in Japan to develop data-driven strategies for Bancho, a historic neighborhood in central Tokyo. I served as a GIS contributor across the studio and as a member of the Bancho's Active Spine development team, producing spatial datasets and analysis, translating Japanese-source information, and preparing geospatial inputs that supported architecture and Rhino-based design workflows. During the final week of the studio, Professor Perry Yang independently tasked me with developing an integrated digital-twin prototype for the project. Because ArcGIS Urban did not provide the same ready-made data infrastructure available for U.S. locations, I built the Bancho environment through custom GIS data preparation and integration, bringing together terrain and elevation, existing building and land-use conditions, planning analysis, team design proposals, performance indicators, and the studio's community-engagement tools into a shared ArcGIS Urban environment and dashboard. The core model and dashboard were assembled independently in approximately five days. GIS Lead • Digital Twin Developer • ArcGIS Urban • Data Integration • Spatial Analysis • GIS-to-Rhino Support