LOCUS
The Complete Architectural
Intelligence Ecosystem
Intelligence Ecosystem
From the first line of the brief to the final render — one project, one mind, every stage connected.
Program Area
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Gross m²
Est. Cost
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Construction
Roadmap
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Stages Complete
Render Brief
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Not Started
Current Project
Untitled Project
No type · No location set
The concept will appear here once written in the Brief or Studio.
A live map of the whole project — click any branch to jump straight to that module. It updates as you work.
The Twelve Modules · A Continuous Workflow
Every module writes to a single shared project, kept in your browser. Set the type once and it travels — into the site analysis, the cost model, and the render brief. Nothing to re-enter.
Module 01 · Program
The Brief
Architecture begins as a list of needs. Build the space program here; the totals and the gross floor area calculate themselves.
Project Definition
Space Program
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Net Area
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Gross Floor Area
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Module 02 · Context
Site & Climate
No building is abstract. Orient it, place it on the Earth, and let the climate write the first rules of the design.
Site Parameters
Exact Location GOOGLE / OSM MAP · EXPORTED WITH REPORTS
Tip: click the map to drop a pin, drag it to fine-tune, or paste a Google Maps link. The location card is embedded in every report and the PowerPoint.
Solar Compass
Generated Bioclimatic Strategy
Derived from climate, latitude and orientation — passive-first, then mechanical.
Module 03 · Numbers
Feasibility
The honest module. What the program costs to build — in real money, with a real breakdown — before a single render is made.
Inputs
Investment & Return ENTER IN THE SELECTED CURRENCY
Land cost = land value × plot area. Payback (ROI) = total investment ÷ (annual revenue − annual operating cost). Leave revenue blank to skip ROI.
Usable Area
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Net m²
Cost / m²
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est.
Construction Cost
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incl. contingency
Range
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low — high
Land Cost
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plot × rate
Total Investment
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build + land
Net Income / yr
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revenue − opex
Payback (ROI)
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years
Indicative Cost Breakdown
Order-of-magnitude only. Rates are parametric benchmarks for early feasibility — not a quantity-surveyed estimate. Always validate locally.
Module 03b · Relationships
Bubble Diagram
Spatial relationships before form. Seed bubbles from your program, size them by area, drag to arrange, and link adjacencies — then export.
Click “Seed from program” to start, or “Add bubble”.
Move mode: drag bubbles · Link mode: click two bubbles to connect · Delete mode: click to remove
Move mode: drag bubbles · Link mode: click two bubbles to connect · Delete mode: click to remove
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Module 06 · Vision
Render Studio
The heart of LOCUS. Your brief, site and palette flow in automatically — shape the rest and generate a platform-ready prompt.
● synced with project10 platforms4 modes
✦ Optional API Key — LOCUS works free & offline; a key adds AI creative rewriting & translation
Get Key →
No key — using free local engine
Key stored in session only. Prompt generation is always free and needs no key.
Compose below — generate from here or from the bottom, identical result.
🎨 — Canvas · Live Studio
Drop your image, choose a look, generate and iterate — right here. Add a free Google Gemini key for live in-app image generation; without a key, Canvas composes the exact prompt to carry to any platform.
No key — prompt mode
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Drop image or click — render, photo, sketch
Drop image or click — render, photo, sketch
Choose a Look
Golden Hour
Twilight Listing
Night Hero
Winter Scene
Desert Context
Clay Model
Ink Line Art
Watercolor
Timber Re-Skin
Japandi Interior
Modern Egyptian
Virtual Staging
Fine-Art B&W
Massing Diagrams
Climate Board
Custom Instruction
🕸 — Flow Studio · Node Workflow
A true visual workflow — place nodes, wire them together, run the graph. 📷 Image nodes hold your uploads, 📝 Prompt nodes hold instructions, ⚡ Generate nodes combine both into results that can feed the next node. Build once per project; it saves with the file.
Click an output port ● then an input port to wire nodes. Drag headers to move.
☁ — LOCUS Cloud · Account & Sync
Connect this LOCUS to your own backend — save projects to the cloud, load them on any device, and generate images through the server without exposing any API key in the browser. The backend is a tiny free Cloudflare Worker; deployment kit included with LOCUS.
⌖ — Experience Level
Level 1
Student
Quick prompts — render a sketch, generate an image, text-to-image & image-to-image. Minimal setup, just the essentials.
Level 2
Professional
The building, without fine detail — massing & scale, materials, lighting, people, country & mood.
Level 3
Advanced
Every detail — facade systems, geometry control, sustainability, lineage, spirit & the poster builder.
⬢ — Output Type
🖼 Still Image
🎬 Video / Motion
📐 Form / Massing
🌤 Climate Study
🖼 Poster
Motion mode builds cinematic, camera-choreographed prompts for AI video generators — Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Kling 3.0, Runway, Luma and more. Your full architectural brief flows in automatically; you add the camera, the timing and the life of the scene.
01 — Project Concept
Describe the idea, story, and philosophy behind the design. This will be embedded directly in your prompt as a conceptual brief.
Enhance — rewrites your concept in architectural prose with the selected tone.
Expand — takes a brief idea and develops it into a full design narrative.
Translate — converts your concept to the selected output language.
Expand — takes a brief idea and develops it into a full design narrative.
Translate — converts your concept to the selected output language.
02 — Target Platform
Midjourney
Nano Banana
Nano Banana PRO ✦
Stable Diffusion
DALL·E
Firefly
Leonardo AI
GPT-4o ✦
GPT-5.5 ✦✦
GPT-5.5 Pro 👑
Veo 3.1 ✦
Veo 3.1 Fast
Sora 2
Kling 3.0
Runway Gen-4.5
Luma Dream Machine
Seedance 2.0
Pika
Hailuo / MiniMax
Wan 2.7
03 — Generation Mode
✏ Text to Image
🖊 Sketch to Image
🔄 Image to Image
📎 Image Reference
Upload sketch / linework / floor plan
🖊
Drop sketch or click
JPG/PNG — hand sketch, floor plan, section
✕ Remove
75%
0% — Free50% — Balanced100% — Exact
Upload render/photo to transform
🔄
Drop image or click
Existing render, photo, visualization
✕ Remove
65%
80%
Upload style/mood reference
📎
Drop reference or click
Architecture, interior, mood board
✕ Remove
50%
Style
Color
Materials
Composition
Lighting
Details
🎬 — Motion & Cinematography
Direct the shot. Your architecture stays locked and stable — only the camera, the light and the living elements move.
Parallax Depth
Gentle Sway
Rack Focus
Slow Zoom
Pan L→R
Rising Boom
Drifting Clouds
Swaying Foliage
Flowing Water
People Walking
Traffic Flow
Birds
Fluttering Fabric
Shifting Shadows
Rolling Fog
Lights Switching On
Dust In Light
Soft Rain
📐 — Form / Massing Generation
From your uploaded building image, derive a clean sequence of massing-evolution diagrams — abstract volume through to final form. Volumetric logic over realism.
Initial Volume
Volume Division
Height Reduction
Subtractive Cutting (Voids)
Shift / Offset
Rotate / Twist
Additive Extrusion
Carve Circulation
Terracing / Setbacks
Final Form
Step Numbers
Arrows
Short Captions
No Text
🌤 — Environmental / Climate Study
An illustrated climate-analysis board of your building — sun path, wind, ventilation and shading strategies drawn as an annotated technical study with detail vignettes. Environmental logic over realism.
☀️ Sun Path & Shading
🌬 Prevailing Wind
↔️ Cross Ventilation
⬆️ Stack Ventilation
🏘 Narrow-Street Air
🧱 Wind-Break Walls
🔅 Sun-Passage Detail
🌿 Green Buffer
🔥 Heat Pockets
⛱ Shaded Enclosures
🏛 Thermal Mass
💧 Evaporative Cooling
🔆 Daylight Depth
🌞 Golden Sun
💨 Blue Wind Arrows
🔥 Orange Heat Marks
┄ Dashed Leaders
⭕ Circular Vignettes
🖼 Sheet Border
🛋 — Interior Studio & Targeted Edit
Thirty interior design languages, room programs, virtual staging — and surgical single-surface edits that keep everything else untouched.
🧩 — Prompt Pipelines
Repeatable multi-step workflows — each loads a numbered sequence of prompts; feed each result image into the next step. The studio standard, encoded once.
🛠 — Workflow Builder · My Workflows
Author your own studio method — name a workflow, compose its steps from blank prompts, the Ready-Made library, Canvas looks, or a live snapshot of the Studio, reorder freely, then run it as one script or step-by-step through the Canvas. Workflows live in your studio and travel inside each project’s file.
⚡ — Ready-Made Prompts
Twenty curated one-click prompts — sketch-to-image, image-to-image, and posters. Click a card to load it into the output, then copy it to any platform.
04 — Core Parameters
05 — Geometry Abidance
80%
0% — Full Creative Freedom25% — Loose50% — Balanced75% — Faithful100% — Exact Match
Overall Massing
Facade Proportions
Floor Plan Layout
Roof Form
Structural Grid
Entrance Location
Cantilevers
Curved Lines
Setbacks
Courtyard / Voids
Tower / Podium
Site Boundary
06 — Architecture Schools & Theory
07 — Inspired by Architect
Mercedes-Benz
Tesla
BYD
Rolls-Royce
Apple
BMW
IKEA
Rolex
Toyota
Cadillac
Bentley
Breitling
Louis Vuitton
70%
08 — Building Scale, Massing & Form
Corner Condition
Sky Gardens
Upper-Level Void
Asymmetric
Recessed Entry
Vertical Emphasis
Horizontal Emphasis
Distinctive Crown
Tripartite
Mono-Material
Double Skin
Tree Within Building
09 — Artistic Medium
Digital Render
Photography
Watercolor
Oil Painting
Gouache
Pencil Sketch
Ink Drawing
Charcoal
Pastel
Blueprint
Linocut Print
Collage
Concept Art
Matte Painting
Comic Style
Clay Render
Low Poly
Voxel Art
10 — Materials & Facade
Glass CW
Frosted Glass
Raw Concrete
White Concrete
Stone Cladding
Limestone
Granite
Sandstone
Marble
Travertine
Corten Steel
Steel
Aluminum ACM
Copper
Bronze Mesh
Perf. Metal
Mirror Metal
Terracotta
Ceramic
Zellige
Brick
Rammed Earth
Timber
Charred Wood
Bamboo
Living Walls
ETFE
Param. Lattice
GFRC
Polycarbonate
Basalt Flooring
Basalt — Exterior
Basalt — Polished
Basalt — Brushed
Basalt — Flamed
Basalt — Grey
Basalt Cobbles
Basalt Pool Coping
Basalt Steps
Basalt & Marble
Interlock — Grey
Interlock — Red
Interlock — Travertine
Interlock — Cobble
Interlock — Grass
Large Format Slabs
Porcelain Outdoor
Interlock — Sandstone
Interlock — Charcoal
Interlock — Cream
Herringbone
Basket Weave
Fan & Circle
Granite Setts
Exposed Aggregate
Rubber Sports
Wood-Effect Deck
11 — Facade Systems & Solar Control
Kinetic Rotating Panels
Folding Origami Panels
Motorized Sun-Tracking
Kinetic Cable Facade
Sliding Screen Panels
LED Media Facade
Electrochromic Glass
Thermochromic Color
ETFE Pneumatic
Wind-Responsive Petals
Hydraulic Relief
PV Solar-Tracking
Bio-Responsive Moss
Double-Skin Adaptive
Sensor-Driven Porous
Occupant-Controlled
Shape Memory Alloy
Hygroscopic Timber
Piezoelectric Energy
Phase-Change Material
Algae Bioreactor
AI-Adaptive Facade
Retractable Green Wall
Acoustic Responsive
11b — Sustainability & Green Architecture
Egypt Vision 2030
Saudi Vision 2030
Qatar QNV 2030
UAE Net Zero 2050
NAC Smart City
Solar Panels
Green Roof
Vertical Green Wall
Rainwater Visible
Wind Turbines
EV Charging
Cycling Infrastructure
Edible Garden
Car-Free Site
Bird-Safe Glazing
Urban Beehives
Natural Swimming Pond
12 — Atmosphere & Mood
40%
Spirit & Human Feeling
— Genius Loci —"Architecture is not about space and light and walls. It is about how it makes you feel."
Rooted to Place
Sacred Geometry
Generosity of Spirit
Poetic Truth
Shadow as Meaning
Desert Memory
Maternal Enclosure
Democratic Belonging
Threshold Between Worlds
Built for Centuries
Human Scale — Always
Layered Narrative
Scent of Materiality
The Horizon as Teacher
Spirit of Resistance
Cosmic Awareness
14 — Country & Cultural Context
15 — People & Attire
Gulf — Thobe & Abaya
Egyptian — Galabiya
Moroccan — Djellaba
Islamic Modest
Contemporary Casual
Business / Formal
Luxury Fashion
Resort / Beachwear
Sportswear
Japanese — Kimono
Indian — Sari
African — Ankara
European Chic
Multicultural Mix
Young Professionals
Families
Elderly
Workers / Laborers
Street Vendors
Tourists
16 — Cars & Vehicles
Luxury Sedans
SUVs
Sports Cars
EVs
Pickups
Motorcycles
Bicycles
Taxis
Public Transit
Rolls-Royce
Bentley
Mercedes
BMW
Audi
Porsche
Ferrari
Lamborghini
Range Rover
Tesla
Land Cruiser
Escalade
17 — Lighting Design
Wet Pavement
God Rays
Mashrabiya Shadows
Bokeh Lights
Rim Lighting
Neon Reflections
Water Caustics
Dusty Beams
Firelight
Starry Sky
18 — Camera & Technical
Ultra-Realistic
8K
Cinematic Lighting
Arch Photography
Hyperrealistic
Award-Winning
Golden Hour
Long Exposure
HDR
Ray-Traced GI
Unreal Engine 5
V-Ray Quality
Tack Sharp
Full Frame DSLR
Drone Photography
Magazine Quality
19 — Custom Details
20 — Negative Prompt — Exclude
🧬 Design Lock (DNA)
Cartoon
Blurry
Distorted
Oversaturated
Bad Proportions
Watermark
Text Overlay
No People
No Cars
Low Quality
Lens Flare
Noise
Flat Lighting
Bad Scale
📇 — Contact & Identity
Your identity, everywhere it matters — these details stamp automatically onto generated poster prompts, PDF · Word · PPTX · Infographic · TXT exports, and the footer of LOCUS itself.
21 — Poster Builder
Hero Image
Bold Title
Studio Credit
Location & Year
📇 Contact Block
Floor Plan Inset
Section Inset
Elevation Inset
Site Plan
Concept Diagram
Description Text
Technical Data
QR Code
North Arrow & Scale
Award Badge
Multi-Image Collage
Aerial Context
22 — Save & Load Sessions
Local
Google Drive — via Claude
Google Drive is handled by Claude in chat. Copy session data, paste with a save command.
✦ Generated Prompt — Ready to Copy
Midjourney
Module 04 · Matter
Material Palette
Architecture is felt before it is understood. Compose a tactile palette, then carry it into the render brief.
Your Palette
Select materials below to compose
Material Wardrobe
Module 04b · Green
Sustainability & Green Architecture
Generated from your climate, materials and systems. Select the strategies you commit to — then push them straight into the Render Studio brief.
Tip: selected strategies are saved with the project and appear in every report & PowerPoint. Climate-specific advice updates automatically when you change the Site climate.
Module 05 · Lineage
Reference Library
Every design carries ancestors. Browse the masters, schools and theories — and send any of them straight into the Studio as design DNA.
Module 07 · Journey
Project Roadmap
The RIBA Plan of Work, mapped to LOCUS. Track the project from a first idea to a building in use.
Progress 0%
Module 08 · Time
Project Schedule
Design and construction phases on one timeline. Durations are auto-filled — edit any of them, and the Gantt redraws live.
PhaseBlockDur (weeks)Timeline
Module 09 · Poster
Building Infographic
One shareable poster, composed automatically from your whole project — stats, programme, palette, sustainability, site and schedule. Updates live as you change the project.
The infographic reflects whatever you've filled in across the modules. It's also embedded in every report and the PowerPoint.