The Parametric Lab turns your programme and your site into geometry that is solved, not drawn: every zone gets its target area on the real plot, the paths grow from the entrance, and the bubble diagram keeps every space in proportion. Change a parameter and the drawing is solved again, with the numbers measured on the result.
A capacity-constrained power diagram (a weighted Voronoi): every cell belongs to a zone, and the weights are solved until each zone holds its target ground area. Entrance, service, quiet and sunny sides of the site pull their zones toward them.
The walls between the zoning cells become a web of branches, wide near the entrance and along the spine, thin between cells of the same zone, joined with soft fillets.
The programme laid out by a force model with exposed parameters: arrangement (central, linear, ring, loose), spacing, hierarchy and link weight. Bubble area stays proportional to floor area.
Rings with leader labels, white metaballs joined by necks, or donuts whose hole shows how open and daylit each space wants to be, plus a matrix of variants.
Start from a template sized to your plot, then change the spaces, areas and links: adjacent, near or apart.
Areas and relations are measured on the solved geometry. Everything is computed from the plot, the programme and the site sides, with no image model and no randomness beyond a seed.
Untouched exports from real sites. Free drawings carry a watermark; Pro and Max drawings are marked.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. The images are MapToNap output.
A diagram whose geometry is generated from parameters, such as programme areas, adjacencies and site conditions, rather than drawn by hand. Change a parameter and the geometry updates, which makes it easy to compare options in early design.
No. The Parametric Lab runs in the browser, inside the MapToNap workspace, on your real plot from the site analysis. Results export as SVG and PNG for Illustrator, Rhino or your board.
The zoning solver adjusts its weights until each zone holds its target ground area on the plot, and the areas shown are measured on the result. Treat the programme areas as starting points, not planning figures.
No. It is a deterministic geometric solver and force model with visible parameters. The same inputs and seed give the same drawing.
You can try MapToNap free: four 2D drawings (roads, land use, green and water, urban fabric) and one 3D drawing, with a watermark and no sign-up. Without the watermark and with all 68 analyses there are one-time passes: Pro €7.99 or Max €12.99 for 30 days, or a year of Max for €49. Nothing renews automatically.
No installation and no setup. MapToNap runs in the browser on any computer, tablet or phone, iPhone or Android: open maptonap.com/app, type an address and press Generate. 3D drawings and simulations run smoothest on a computer.