Material takeoff
Begin with calculated wall volume and weight, soil or lavasand, cement, formed wall area and floor area, organized by volume and for the project as a whole.
Populated by Shape ItFree tools for building an idea
From an idea
to a shelter.
Three simple browser tools help you find the arrangement, make it measurable, then see how it might feel on the land.
See the workflow ↓One continuous workflow
Gather the rooms → Shape the volumes → See the shelter.
Arrange rooms + courtyards
Space It
Start with four walls.
Grow a home one room at a time. Add, hold back or remove volumes while Space It explores the courtyards, passages, shade and open-air rooms that form between them.
- Generate a starting arrangement
- Explore rooms as separate small buildings
- Test what belongs now and what can come later
- Export the arrangement directly to Shape It
Define + understand the build
Shape It
Make the idea measurable.
Open a Space It starting point or begin with a single volume, then work at the scale of an actual shelter. Set dimensions, wall systems, roofs and openings while the model keeps the material implications visible.
- Move and refine individual or grouped volumes
- Set wall thickness, material and roof form
- Place and size doors and windows
- Export a dimensioned plan and preliminary material quantities
Visualize light + material + place
See It
See what the drawing could become.
Carry a view from Shape It into a focused visualization tool. Describe the landscape, light, material and atmosphere while the shelter's underlying composition stays in view.
- Begin with a Shape It capture or another source image
- Describe the land, season, light and feeling
- Explore alternate frames and visual directions
- Save a set of images to guide the project forward
Working documents
Plan it. Price it. Build it.
Shape It can provide the quantities the geometry knows. Editable documents carry those numbers forward, leaving room for local prices, project-specific materials and the decisions only a builder can make.
Editable budget
Carry the calculated quantities into a cost workbook. Add local unit prices, waste, labor, tax and the materials the model cannot determine.
Completed by the builderSample sequence
Begin with an editable order of work, then adjust durations, dependencies, crews and dates to the site and the way the project will actually be built.
Adapted to the projectMake it complete
Add reinforcement, foundations, roofing, openings, services, finishes and any other work specific to the plan, engineering and jurisdiction.
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