BÉTON BRUT

1. Intuitive Play & Direct Sculpting

Click any building in the 3D city to bring up its Floating Quick-Sculpt Bar and Tectonic Studio Inspector. Every slider updates the 3D concrete structure in real time.

• Pour Foundation: Choose an archetype on the left and click any open grid parcel. Press R to rotate 90°.
• Streets in the Sky: Select the Street in the Sky tool (or click Link Skybridge on a selected building) and click a second building to span an elevated pedestrian truss between them!
• Manifesto Generator: Click ⚡ Manifesto Gen in the top bar to synthesize a brand-new Brutalist superblock, or 🎲 Mutate to evolve any selected building.

2. Deep Architectural Tectonics

Explore authentic postwar architectural concepts drawn from Le Corbusier, Alison & Peter Smithson, Ernő Goldfinger, Paul Rudolph, Lina Bo Bardi, and Japanese Metabolism:

• Pilotis & Ground Liberation: Raise slabs on V-Struts, Cylindrical Drums, or Clear-Span MASP Mega-Hangers to let wind and citizens pass freely underneath.
• Brise-Soleil & Ziggurats: Carve deep Egg-Crate Loggias, Marcel Breuer Precast Coffers, or step floors outward in an Inverted Ziggurat to self-shade interiors.
• Béton Brut Finishes: Switch between rough pine shuttering with tie-rod holes, Paul Rudolph bush-hammered corduroy ribs, fair-faced Louis Kahn travertine concrete, and weathering Corten steel.

3. Simulation Lenses & City Experiences

• Heliodon & Solar Envelope: Projects a 3D solar compass dome and maps thermal gain vs. brise-soleil self-shading.
• Wind Tunnel & Pilotis Venturi: Launches live aerodynamic streamlines that accelerate around solid plinths (red) or glide smoothly beneath pilotis (emerald).
• FEM Structural Stress: Maps axial compression in cores/pilotis against bending moments in cantilevers and skybridges.
• Street Flâneur & Stirling Axonometric: Drop down to 1.7m pedestrian eye-level (with an elevator to skybridge levels!), switch to parallel axonometric drafting projection, or apply Lucien Hervé 1968 Monochrome & Prussian Blueprint plates.