Gen, the residential configurator

Know what a plot is worth before you buy it.

A 12,752 m² plot in Barmbek-Nord, Hamburg, found from its address. Gen pulls zoning, density and parcel geometry automatically, and everything below is drawn from it: the full feasibility in minutes, before a single fee is spent.

Plot12,752 m² · Barmbek-Nord, Hamburg

See what you can build

Compliant buildings, drawn in seconds.

Gen places corridor buildings on the plot and checks each one against zoning, density and coverage limits as it is built: five levels at most, a 2.5 m corridor, wings between 12.95 and 80 m, three metres from every edge. The first massing studies that used to cost an architect a week are on screen before the meeting starts. The apartments show on the roofs, coloured by type.

Max levels: 5
Corridor width: 2.5 m
Min setback: 3 m

Control the apartment mix

The mix that sells, set by its shares.

Shift the split between studios, one-beds and family units and see at once what each mix is worth. Every option stays zoning-compliant. Working with your own standard layouts? Upload them, and Gen plans with your floor plans instead of generic ones.

1R1P: 50 %
1R2P · 2R2P · 2R3P: 13 % each
3R3P: 11 %

Several options, one site

Ten variants in one run, ranked by floor area.

More area, more height or a different mix: ten massing options for the same site, each already checked against zoning, density and coverage limits and ranked by gross floor area, efficiency and lot coverage. You keep the ones worth keeping and never pay for a study of the rest.

Variants: 10 · ranked by GFA
Most floor area: F · 29,254 m²
Layout A: 26,208 m² · 72.92 %

Take over anytime

Move a building, the numbers follow.

The first result is a starting point, not a locked answer. Move, resize or redraw any building directly: setbacks, numbers and compliance update live, so a change raised in the meeting is settled in the meeting.

By hand: move · turn · resize · redraw
Checked live: setbacks · coverage · density

Can you build it

205 apartments on 12,752 m², measured, not estimated.

The edited scheme, measured as it stands: seven buildings, 22,039 m² of gross floor area and 16,011 m² net, a layout efficiency of 72.65 percent, a floor area ratio of 1.73 and 37 percent of the plot built on. Figures you can put in front of a bank.

Buildings: 7 · 205 apartments
Gross floor area: 22,039 m² · NIA 16,011 m²
FAR · BCR: 172.82 % · 37.14 %

Know if it pays

The business case, before anyone draws.

Prices and rents from a market-data partner by location, build costs from reference projects by trade, and every number editable: what it sells for, what it costs, what is left, and what that is on the equity put in. Go or no-go on the day you ask, not after a year of fees. One plate for every five million euros.

Total sales value: €156.9 M
Construction: −€58.4 M
Other project costs: −€37.6 M
Net profit: €60.9 M
Equity put in: €17.9 M
Return on equity: €60.9 M ÷ €17.9 M = 339 %

Model and files

Renderings for the deck, Revit and IFC for the architect.

Turn the winning scenario into photorealistic renderings, ready for the investor deck before the meeting ends. The model goes out to Revit, IFC and PDF, storey by storey, so the architect starts from your scheme instead of from zero.

Renderings: in minutes
Export: Revit · IFC · PDF

See what fits your plot

The scheme rendered at eye level in its courtyard

The recording

Sixty seconds of the live tool.

The whole run on the Hamburg plot, as it happened, playing on the plot itself. The chapters jump to each step; a click on the film opens it full size.

Pricing

One good feasibility study pays for the year.

The more you build, the more it pays back. In the recording, one run on the Hamburg plot shows a net profit of €60.9 million. Starter is €$99 a month, for twenty such reports.