Site analysis for architects
Skip the week of context research before concept design. UrbanEyes gives you the site story, the drawings and the massing constraints in one sitting, then carries the same site into Rhino and SketchUp.
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What changes for architects
Context research eats the first week of every project.
Search the site and get buildings, land use, access, climate and planning context in about 15 minutes.
Tracing context into CAD by hand.
Export figure ground, roads, terrain and 3D buildings straight to DWG, 3DM or SketchUp, layered and to scale.
Environmental studies come too late to shape the design.
Run sun, shadow, wind and thermal comfort studies before massing, in the browser or on your Rhino model.
How architects use UrbanEyes
Step 1
Read the site
Feasibility, 50+ metrics, context maps and simulations for your boundary.
UrbanEyes Site AnalysisStep 2
Draw the boards
Figure ground, land use and heights as PDF, SVG or DWG for competition and client boards.
UrbanEyes MapsStep 3
Design in context
Import the site into Rhino or SketchUp with Urbanaut and test massing with simulations and the agent.
UrbanEyes Urbanaut
What you take away
- Site analysis report with sources
- Figure ground and land use drawings
- Sun path and shadow studies
- Wind and UTCI comfort maps
- 3D context model in 3DM, SKP or DWG
- Concept massing options
Questions from architects
An architectural site analysis should cover context and land use, access and movement, climate, sun and wind, topography, planning constraints such as zoning and FAR, and views and neighbouring buildings. UrbanEyes produces all of these for any site, with maps and a written report.
Yes. UrbanEyes Maps exports 3DM and SketchUp context models, and the Urbanaut plugin imports buildings, roads, terrain and vegetation for areas up to 38 km² directly into Rhino 8 and SketchUp.
About 15 minutes from drawing the boundary to the finished report, compared with days of manual GIS and CAD work.