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Thousands of architects, planners and developers trust DBF, the most user-friendly building design tool for early-stage feasibility studies and sustainable design.
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Early stage planning.
Win projects with smart workflows
Faster
Speed up the feasibility study process by 75% with the power of AI generative design.
Transparent
Design, share files, review proposals, and collaborate in an online 3D environment.
Our Mission
We Accelerate the World's Transition
to Better Cities
"We started Digital Blue Foam as architects who want to make a sustainable future accessible to everyone. That's why we are creating a platform to unite designers, software, and data in order to accelerate carbon negative building design, construction, and operation."
Camiel Weijenberg & Sayjel Vijay Patel
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Founders
Design Detailed 3D buildings from scratch in minutes.
Just like a magician! 🧙🏼
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Collaborate Online
Design together, online
Architects, developers, and planners use Digital Blue Foam to effortlessly transform their vision into intelligent buildings proposals. Because it's online you can get started right away and never have to worry about software updates again.
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World's Data
The world's data at your fingertips
Inform your design process with location-based insights. Digital Blue Foam multi-source contextual data covers just about every location across the globe.
3
Sustainability First
Sustainable design for everyone
Compare your building proposals across a variety of sustainable design metrics. Instantly download reports and visuals to make the best projects for the future.
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AI Generative Design
The most user-friendly generative design tool
Digital Blue Foam's proprietary AI makes generative design as easy as sketching with a pen. By eliminating the need to learn coding or visual programming, the power of generative design is now available to everyone in the building industry.
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Instant BIM
Unified workflows for seamless integration
Hassle free integrations to your favorite BIM, CAD, and spreadsheets. With DBF Hub, you sync your projects directly to Archicad, Revit, and Rhino3D within milliseconds.
The latest from DBF 🔥
We are a team of scientific, polymaths, designers, and coders, driving the next revolution in sustainable building design. We spend hours to write these articles just because we love to share our work with you and see your reaction.
You've got questions
Check out our FAQs
Does Digital Blue Foam export to BIM or IFC file formats?
With DBF Hub, you can sync your projects from Digital Blue Foam directly to Archicad, Revit or Rhino as native file formats in less than a second.
Where do you get your data?
All Data is retrieved and prepared from a wide variety of data-sets which we present in a 3D environment for our customers. Data sets can vary from country to country as we bring together the best and most suitable for everyone using our service.
Learn more about our data sources
How long does it take to learn Digital Blue Foam?
By designing the best user experience, you can get started with Digital Blue Foam in minutes. To learn about our advanced features, we have created a fully-loaded resource center, and video tutorials.
People are talking
People are talking about us. Hear what they have to say about our platform.
The most beneficial option of DBF is dynamic, easy to use, and online base. Also, the most valuable aspect of working with DBF is the team spirit, which strengthens our partnership.
Amir Keshavarz
Chapter Lead, Iran
@IMF, International Metropolitan Fellowship
Site planning
“Digital Blue Foam is the best feasibility study sofwtare.”
Marvin McKinney
Home Seller, USA
The most beneficial option of DBF is dynamic, easy to use, and online base. Also, the most valuable aspect of working with DBF is the team spirit, which strengthens our partnership.
Amir Keshavarz
Chapter Lead, Iran
@IMF, International Metropolitan Fellowship
Site planning
The interface of Digital Blue Foam is fantastic. It is really user-friendly and super dynamic. The fact that DBF talks directly with Revit, Archicad and Rhino, also makes it time efficient and very powerful when it comes to coordination.
Ricardo Escobedo
BIM Manager, Melbourne
@Aurecon
Digital Blue Foam team has done a tremendous job in creating a user-friendly intuitive tool that is quick and approachable.
Luca Giaramidaro
Senior Associate, San Francisco
@Perkins and Will
Digital Blue Foam takes you into the future with these real-time analysis features. DBF is has great potential to make this tool an industry standard.
Anas Ayoub
BIM Design Manager, Dubai
@Kingspan
Digital Blue Foam shifts the tasks of the architect from number crunching to finding solutions through design quality.
Hani Asfour
Head of University - Dubai
@Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation
Digital Blue Foam's beautiful and intuitive interface clearly sets itself apart from the competition.
Jie Zhang
General Manager, Shanghai
@Pelli Clark Pelli Architects
Digital Blue Foam is sketching with real-time information. It enables a dialogue between man and machine where each brings their natural strength to the design process.
Mirko Daneluzzo
Founder and Chief Design Officer, Italy
@NYXO Visionary Design
Students who are familiar with Digital Blue Foam will have a faster learning curve and will be more prepared for future design technologies.
Bálint Kádár
Associate Professor, Budapest
@BME
Academic
Digital Blue Foam is the best feasibility software.
Shouichi Senda
Senior Manager, Tokyo
@TAKENAKA
Site planning
Digital Blue Foam is the blue foam cutter of the 21st century. We finally have a tool adapted to our times.
Naomi Hébert
Partner, Netherlands
@TEKUMA
Building design
