Getting started

The generator responds to constraints, not adjectives. "Warm, light-filled family home" gives it nothing to work with; "two-bedroom laneway house on a 7.5 by 22 m south-facing lot, north light into the living space, a courtyard between the sleeping and living wings" gives it the site, the program, the orientation, and the organising move.

Four things carry the most weight: the site dimensions and orientation, the number of bedrooms, roughly what floor area you are aiming at, and any one spatial relationship you care about — a courtyard, a separated studio, a kitchen that sees the garden.

Floor area, bedrooms, and openness sit below the brief and apply to every run. Openness is the dial between fully cellular rooms and a single open living, dining, and kitchen volume — it changes the parti more than any adjective in the brief will.

One generation returns four different organising moves, not four versions of one idea. Compare them on the area schedule and the performance panel before you look at which is prettiest: circulation over about 15% means the plan is spending your floor area on corridor, and a daylight autonomy under 60% usually means a room is buried.

Pick one and the rest of the app follows it — the editor, the 3D view, and the export all work on the selected option.

When one option gets part of the plan right, open the editor and lock those rooms. The next generation keeps them and re-solves everything else, so you converge on a scheme instead of rolling the dice.