Hallituskatu, one of the Oulu centre vision sites

Oulu Centre Vision 2040

Design · LUO arkkitehdit · 2025

For the official Oulun keskustavisio 2026–2040, ten named city-centre sites — from Hallituskatu to the Hollihaka boat harbour — were photographed at high resolution and given dedicated bilingual prompt libraries built directly from the vision’s four theme drafts: traffic and parking, infill development, urban green and blue, and lighting. 670 precomputed scenario images translated the vision’s concepts — a Hallituskatu boulevard, a pedestrian centre, covered courtyards — into site-specific material for the autumn 2025 resident workshops, with playful “Lego prompts” keeping the register open.

Who took part

Oulu residents, following a resident survey in February 2025 and a Lego city-building event in May 2025 within the vision’s engagement programme.

What the tool did

A precompute pipeline turning an official vision’s theme drafts into curated, site-specific scenario sets at scale — ten sites, two languages, 670 images.

Hallituskatu, one of the Oulu centre vision sitesAI pergola scenario for Oulu city centreAlternative pergola scenario generated for Oulu

Sources

Delivered together with project partners.