Introducing Concept Lite: Explore Designs Instantly

Hello fellow building afficionados,

We're proud to announce the release of Branch Concept Lite!  Concept Lite helps you rapidly explore design concepts: as you intuitively sculpt your building, Concept Lite gives you real-time feedback on material quantities and embodied carbon. It's free and runs directly in your browser: no downloads or licenses required.

It's still a bit experimental, but we'd love your feedback as we work to build out a fully-powered concept design tool. Try it out and let us know what you think!

Try Concept Lite for free

The Full Story

Here at Branch, we create design tools that make building design fun & easy. Our normal work is in Rhino, where our Branch Detailing product has helped StructureCraft design, detail, and manufacture more than 1,000,000 square feet of mass timber.

Our goal is to make an integrated design tool that span every step of the process, from early design through fabrication and construction. We started with fabrication detailing tools: we know that details are what make or break a project and we wanted to prove to ourselves we could handle <1mm precision across entire buildings.

Now we’re shifting our attention towards the earlier phases of design. In the process of refining our ideas, we did some exploration into web technologies and thought it’d be fun to share the results of our experiments.

So, try Concept Lite and tell us what you think! Your feedback will help us make a better design tool.

We’re planning on launching a more fully-featured concept design tool later in the year...stay tuned for updates! We’re looking for alpha users; let us know if you want to help shape the design tools of the future.

-The Branch Team

P.S. Here's an intro video to help you get started: