Arcol is a building design and documentation tool that runs in your browser.
Architects deserve better tools
Most design tools are from the late nineteen hundreds. We need to bring the magic back to design. We need something powerful, intuitive, and collaborative.
Think of how much technology has changed in the past two decades. Google docs. Slack. Zoom. The iPhone. While almost every product we touch has become web-based, collaborative, and consumer focused, for some reason, our design tools are still stuck in an ancient desktop paradigm of the 1990s.
We believe that 3D building design tools should be powerful, yet easy to use. Web-based , intuitive, and most importantly collaborative.
CAD went mainstream in the 80’s, and BIM came soon after, but since then it seems like tools have lost the magic. Over time they’ve gotten clunky, slow, unintuitive, and driven by greed — incumbents are public companies and therefore they’re only growth metric is profit.
Arcol is bringing the magic back to building design and making it accessible to everyone — from world class AEC firms to people who don’t know what “CAD” or “BIM” means.
An Outsider’s Perspective
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond