Urbanflow offers a cloud platform where architects, engineers, and planners can model building geometry, run AI‑driven sustainability simulations, and collaborate in real time within a browser. Its modular workflow engine provides instant insights on energy, carbon, cost, health and other performance metrics, enabling teams to iterate designs without switching tools.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Design teams for buildings and cities often rely on separate tools for geometry modeling, performance simulation, and sustainability analysis, leading to fragmented workflows, delayed decision‑making, and difficulty coordinating across stakeholders.
Solution
Urbanflow provides a cloud‑based platform that unifies building geometry definition, real‑time collaboration, and AI‑driven performance analysis across multiple sustainability dimensions. Users can create and edit models directly in the browser, configure modular “flows” for energy, carbon, cost, health, and other analyses, and receive science‑based insights generated by the platform’s AI agent. Results are presented interactively, allowing teams to iterate designs instantly and align decisions with research‑backed metrics. The system supports simultaneous multi‑user sessions, enabling architects, engineers, and planners to work together without switching applications.
Target Audience
Primary users are architecture firms, engineering consultancies, and urban planning teams that need an integrated, collaborative environment for sustainable building and city design.
Features
- Browser interface for defining building geometries, zones, and property parameters without external CAD software
- Real‑time multi‑user collaboration to synchronize design changes and analysis results across stakeholders
- AI agent that proposes design modifications, runs simulations, and generates actionable sustainability insights
- Modular workflow engine (“flows”) for energy, carbon, cost, health, wind, light, heat, and other performance analyses
- Science‑based simulation modules delivering interactive visualizations of energy consumption, carbon footprint, occupant comfort, and more
- Integrated “AI teammate” that learns from design iterations and suggests optimizations aligned with project goals