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+ Parametric design for architecture

Design in 3D.
Keep your
options open.

Graphite4D connects 3D geometry, data and AI in one editable model. Make a decision, see its effect, and keep developing the idea.

Not a video. Not a render. Every model on this page is a real Graphite4D project running live in your browser. Drag it, change it, download it.

Scroll to work through the idea

01 / Build an idea, piece by piece

Simple parts.
A building that adds up.

Start with massing, then build the architecture one floor at a time. Keep scrolling as each floor joins the ones below, until the canopy completes the building.

02 / Let the idea move

One decision.
A connected model.

Step either wing back. Give the shops more height. Try one fewer floor. The building follows the rules you set, and the numbers follow the building.

1 step
None2 steps

Each step sets the wing's top floors back by one home. Terraces, guards and the roof follow.

65homes
58,680sf of homes

03 / Draw it

From soft materials
to hard line. Same model.

Switch the building to a drafting view. Plans and sections are cut from the same solids, and every room tags itself with its name and area, so the drawing set can never drift from the design.

Level 1 plan: shops, lobby, garden stair and service roomsA101 · Level 1 · street Level 3 plan: a typical residential floor with every room namedA103 · Level 3 · typical Level 6 plan: the stepped top floor and its terracesA106 · Level 6 · stepped Section through the garden stair, courtyard and west wing terracesA301 · Courtyard section

Saved drawing views, exported as SVG from the native project at 1/16″ = 1′-0″. Open one to read the sheet here, or see the roof plan.

04 / See what your design means

Every home
knows what it is.

Homes carry their type, level and area. Color the whole building by any of them, click a home to read its record, and total every finish across all 1,523 solids.

65homes in the building58,680sf of homes, gross

Whole-building home mix · tap to highlight

Use Cut at on the model to slice through the building at any floor.

05 / Simple parts. Rich possibilities.

One rule.
A hundred and eighty blades.

Every bronze blade reads two cosine waves that peak at the center of the canopy: one sets how far it reaches, one how it pitches. Change the waves and the whole street front moves together.

Reach wave

3 ft
1

Pitch wave

12°
2
1wave rule→36blades per bay→5bays

Every blade tip keeps 8 ft clear over the sidewalk.

06 / A collaborator, with you in control

Ask for a direction.
Inspect the difference.

Let AI work on an alternative while you keep the original. The parts it changed light up in the model. Everything else stays exactly where it was.

Design proposal · a saved alternative
YouBring more daylight into the homes. Keep the facade module, sills, heads, structure and every home.
Graphite4D AIWidened every punched window from 3 ft to 4 ft on the same 6 ft module: 302 windows, from five shared floor plans. Moved one partition in three shared home recipes so each still meets a pier, not glass. Window glass: +0 sf. Checked: all solids valid, no clashes, every home unchanged.

3 ft punched windows on a 6 ft module. The saved starting point.

Open the Level 3 plan

07 / Take the next step

Start with an idea.
Stay open to more.

Draw, connect, question, refine. Keep the model, and the possibilities, in your hands.

Open Graphite4D
Download the Terraces project Download the wider-windows alternative

Open a native file with Project → Open project file in Graphite4D.

Connected construction

The model behind the model.

These nodes and connections come directly from the saved Graphite4D project. Choose an assembly to inspect its construction; values show the saved baseline.

Published controls and shared recipes remain editable in the native project.

Drawing from the model

Sheet

Exported as SVG from the native project at 1/16″ = 1′-0″. Drag or scroll to pan; zoom to read the room tags.

Real models, in a website.

The Terraces is a six-story mixed-use courtyard building created with Graphite4D’s native modeling tools: 65 homes over shops on a concrete podium, planned to the 2021 International Building Code with sprinklers. Every 3D option here is exported from an evaluated native document, including its materials, rooms and home data.

The page loads one model at a time. Its controls select pre-evaluated options; the editable projects contain the connected controls. The canopy chapter is the exception: the page evaluates the canopy recipe's published wave rule live, and a build check compares it with native evaluations. The home blocks are each home's own floor outline, extruded for the diagram. The AI chapter is a replay of a saved, AI-authored alternative, not a live chat. Home areas are gross, from the exterior face to the demising and corridor wall centerlines. Surface areas by finish are summed from every solid’s native record.

The code values are planning checks by an AI, not a code consultant’s review. Structure, services and energy are not engineered.

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