Design mode is under active development and intended as a more targeted, ultimately precise way to imagine, cost, communicate, and develop urban courtyards.

The goal is to make specific courtyard forms available for development and discussion much sooner than is normally possible — not just as images, but as structured spatial proposals.

Design mode starts with parametric spatial or architectural modules, from basic courtyard blocks to full design kits. You can block massing, explore layout and proportions, and then render from the exact camera view.

Courtyard Urbanist is developing, with partners, both a simple block language (the Lego™ of courtyards) and more sophisticated patterns and kits — each with parametric controls, design oversight, and attached costing or performance models, delivered in a web format that is easy to access.

Architects, planners, developers, communities, city authorities, students, and teachers can meet around potential and actual courtyard designs earlier and with more clarity.

The composer manipulates formal geometry (not meshes) and can output feasibility-ready or construction-ready model kits, or hand off to tools such as Arcol.