Urban Fabric Generator

What it does

Blocking out streets, blocks, and land-use massing at neighborhood scale is slow to test by hand, one block at a time. Urban Fabric Generator (delivered as four worked example definitions) builds a road hierarchy of main, secondary, and tertiary streets that subdivides a site into blocks, then generates per-block massing driven by land use, floor area ratio, density, grouping, and orientation. A further example classifies regions by urban function from areas you mark as training examples. Set street widths, then the massing drivers on sliders, moving from the street network through to massing across the four linked examples. You test a neighborhood-scale layout in one sitting instead of blocking it out block by block, though it's a design aid: review the massing and the classification output before using either downstream.

What is included

• Road network by hierarchy: main, secondary, tertiary, with widths
• Block subdivision from the street network
• Per-block massing by land use, floor area ratio, and density
• Building grouping, orientation, and mix controls
• A region-classification example driven by marked training areas
• Four worked example definitions with videos

How it works

Parameters

The sliders and inputs the tool exposes.