Visualize massing and site potential in minutes with Forma Site Design's 3D Sketch tool. Quickly sketch volumes, test ideas, and iterate using solid polysurface 3D modelling tools. without needing detailed modeling skills.

Generate and evaluate layout options instantly with the AI-powered Site Automation tool. Test multiple scenarios, compare metrics, and refine your site — all in a fraction of the time it would take manually.

Plan low-density housing with speed and flexibility with Forma Site Design's Housing tool. With this design automation, you can place homes with just a few clicks, then adjust spacing, orientation, and layout to suit your site. You can test massing, iterate fast, and make confident decisions before moving to schematic design.

Generate buildings instantly with Line Buildings, a parametric tool for fast early-phase design. Draw a line and adjust parameters like section length and number of floors. Snap to corners, edit sections, and explore layout options.

Forma Site Design makes parking estimation faster and easier. Fill building floor plans with parking to estimate parking coverage in projects, helping you understand parking requirements at an early stage.

The Floor plan sketcher helps you design and edit layouts inside Basic and Line Buildings. Use drawing tools to shape units, cores, corridors, and parking. Apply templates, automate layouts, or manually adjust floors.

With Area metrics, you get instant feedback on how your design decisions affect key site stats, tailored to regional context. The numbers update automatically, so you can easily keep track when iterating multiple options and meet your floor area targets with confidence. No more manual spreadsheets.

Easily check sun conditions on your site for passive design with the Sun hours analysis. You can easily see the number of sun hours that reach façades and ground level at specific times of day and year. It gives easy-to-understand visuals to inform design decisions, whether it’s to increase winter sun on façades or shade on public outdoor areas.

Quickly assess the daylight performance of your projects with the Daylight potential analysis. It generates a Sky Component score to highlight areas with poor or limited daylight potential, making it easier to meet daylight requirements and optimize design decisions to improve daylight conditions.

See how wind moves through your site and reacts to your massing with Forma Site Design's Wind analysis. Offering both rapid (real-time machine learning predictions) and detailed (simulation) analyses, it shows wind speed and direction, and pedestrian comfort, helping optimize your design to avoid unwanted wind conditions.

Make informed decisions about thermal comfort early in the design process with the Microclimate analysis. It combines sun, daylight, and wind data with local weather to calculate perceived temperature, so you can adapt your design to the local climate conditions for optimal outdoor spaces.

Forma Carbon Insights, built into Forma Site Design*, brings embodied, operational, and total carbon analysis into early site planning — evaluate carbon impacts while exploring layouts and design alternatives without leaving the design environment. Total carbon results appear directly in Forma Site Design, with dashboards available for deeper analysis and collaboration.

Use Forma Site Design's Noise analysis to understand noise conditions on your site with rapid or detailed options. Rapid analysis provides instant machine learning predictions during design, while detailed analysis uses simulations to evaluate how traffic and design choices affect noise across scenarios.

Gain immediate insights into the annual solar energy potential of your building, helping you maximize solar energy production and meet sustainability goals. Integrated with your massing model, Forma Site Design's Solar Energy Analysis responds to any geometry added to your project and factors in terrain, vegetation, buildings, and climate.

Easily see how your building and surroundings cast shadow on your site to identify and address overshadowing issues faster. The Shadow study extension allows you to select a time range, date, and interval to generate a shadow study consisting of screenshots of the proposal at selected sun positions for the given times. This analysis simplifies a typical workflow, which can be time-consuming with traditional tools.

Quickly assess visibility between objects and points of interest with the View study extension. Evaluate views from different floors, analyze sight lines in city planning, and optimize public space layouts based on visual connections between different areas.

Invite multiple users to edit boards at once with live updates. Use enhanced commenting and annotation for instant feedback, while embedded analytics tailor content to each audience.

Integrate views directly from Revit models hosted in Forma Data Management and add individual or multiple sets of sheets, organized by discipline, for easy review and annotation

Switch from design review to presentation mode instantly using slides generated from frames. Support stakeholder meetings directly within Forma Site Design, keeping collaboration focused and uninterrupted.

Build boards quickly by dragging snapshots or live views into proposals. Adjust view sizes, camera angles, and track design changes over time for clarity and context.

Generate rapid concept visualizations directly in the workspace. Explore styles, refine prompts, and return images to the canvas to support early validation and stakeholder alignment.

Save camera positions and quickly export screenshots from Forma Site Design. Choose to include or exclude graphics.

Export your proposals and analysis results in multiple formats—OBJ, IFC (Beta), PNG, SVG, and CSV. Share visuals, continue work in other tools, or analyze metrics.

Use the Surface tool to define the intended use of areas—like parks, playgrounds, or phases—by assigning custom functions. Choose from built-in or user-defined options to visually communicate site intent. Functions are site-specific and update instantly as you design.

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Forma Site Design makes collaboration easy and secure. Invite internal or external members to your site or project with tailored access levels—Viewer, Editor, or Manager. Choose between full project access or site-specific invites, and use Invite-Only mode to keep sensitive work confidential.