01 / DESIGN LOGIC
Architecture
ARCHITECTURE
Understands layouts, scale, and circulation, and identifies the design decisions in each case worth keeping.
ArchCo | Bring Past Residential Designs Back into New Projects
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Let past designs become the starting point for the next project.
Turn past designs into the starting point for the next project.
Turn your past residential unit designs into a searchable, reusable design capability that keeps growing across your firm.
New projects are automatically matched to the closest past layouts, ready to apply, adjust, and bring back into your existing workflow.
Ready to refine
Learn more about ArchCo
01 | Why ArchCo
The drawings were saved. The design experience was never truly accumulated.
The problem isn’t that it hasn’t been done before. It’s that what’s been done can’t flow directly into the next project.
02 | How ArchCo works
From DXF import
to continued design in CAD.
Import the new project’s unit outline and pick a suitable starting layout from past designs.
After adaptation, export to DXF and keep refining in your usual CAD.
Import the new project DXFThe unit outline becomes the basis for matching and adaptation.
- 01DXF import
- 02Match & select
- 03Adapt layout
- 04DXF export
- 05Refine in CAD
03 | Where past layouts come from
Have your own past projects? Keep building on them. Not enough yet? Start right away.
ArchCo offers two independent sources of layouts. A firm can build its own private database, or subscribe separately to the ArchCo public database. Both can be used at the same time, but their data never mixes.
Private firm database
Import your firm’s past residential drawings into ArchCo. The system automatically recognizes them and organizes them into housing units ready for matching and adaptation.
- Built from your firm’s past drawings
- All data is for your firm’s use only
- Never shared with other firms
- Keeps growing as you use it
ArchCo public database
If you don’t have enough cases yet, or can’t build your own database for now, subscribe to the ArchCo public database on its own and start matching and adapting layouts right away.
- No need to collect lots of past drawings first
- Ready to use once you subscribe
- Fully separate from every firm’s private database
- Can be used alongside your own private database
Data stays separate; queries can run on both at once
A single new unit outline can search both your private database and the ArchCo public database for similar layouts. The system clearly labels the source of every result.
Drawings your firm uploads stay in your own private database. They never enter the public database and are never used by other firms.
Start with the public database or build your own private database over time. Either way, you can use ArchCo.
04 | How a private database is built
Import past drawings and automatically build a reusable database of housing units.
The system automatically recognizes the housing units in past drawings. Recognized units go into your private database; drawings that can’t be recognized or may have issues are listed separately.
From past drawings to a housing unit database that new projects can reuse.
05 | Day-to-day workflow
For a new project, just enter the unit outline and start from a similar case.
ArchCo reads the new outline’s interior area and shape, then finds past layouts with similar conditions in the databases you can access. Once your team picks a case, the system adapts the existing layout to the new outline.
Not generating a new drawing from scratch, but bringing the designs you’ve already made back into the next project.
06 | FAQ
Things you may want to know before getting started with ArchCo.
07 | Our team OUR TEAM
Three disciplines, keeping residential design experience growing.
Combining architecture, software engineering, and knowledge systemization to turn past drawings into assets you can search, adapt, and keep designing from.
02 / ENGINEERING LOGIC
Engineering
ENGINEERING
Turns CAD drawings into workable data and connects matching, adaptation, and DXF export.
03 / KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
Systemization
SYSTEMIZATION
Organizes scattered past cases into design knowledge with clear conditions, traceable sources, and verifiable results.
08 | Contact
Give past projects new value, so design never starts from zero.
If you’re thinking about how to organize and reuse your firm’s residential design experience, we’d love to hear from you.