Sun studies from Archicad, for a NSW DA.

Solar access, by apartment

Hours of direct sun on each apartment's living room windows and private open space on 21 June between 09:00 and 15:00, assessed against the NSW Apartment Design Guide's 2-hour and 3-hour criteria, written onto the Zones so the ADG table is a native Archicad schedule.

Pure astronomy from latitude, longitude and time. No weather file.

Shadow diagrams and shadow plans

The hourly shadows cast by the model, drawn as fills in the legend's own colours, with what stands and what the proposal adds told apart. Or the same hours as one 3D Document each, with Archicad's own vectorial shadows, on sheets by day.

Site and context analysis

Give it a NSW street address and it draws the context analysis, the site analysis and the summary of controls from open data: NSW cadastre, ePlanning, topography, Transport for NSW, OpenStreetMap, and inside the City of Sydney the council's own contours and trees. Each sheet credits the publishers whose data reached it.

The area calculation

GBA, GFA, FSR and the yield from the massing slabs, before there are any apartments, worked the way the office's own calculation does it. And a massing mode that reports the share of facade and ground reaching two hours of sun, the metric a massing optimisation maximises.

A reference image over the 3D window

Set a view up from the corner a photograph was taken at, or match an earlier rendering, by laying the picture over Archicad's 3D window while the view is adjusted under it.

Driven by an agent, if you like

Every study is also a tool an AI agent can run. Claude Desktop, Claude Code or any client of the Model Context Protocol starts Loriini.exe mcp and works the open project through it.