Parametric Facades, instantly in Rhino.
Turn 10 hours of façade studies into 10 minutes with facet’s library of production-ready Grasshopperfacade scripts and give your entire design team instant parametric superpowers.
What is Facet?
A curated collection of fully parametric plug‑and‑play Grasshopper definitions that turn simple surfaces into detailed facades.
Save hundreds of hours of design iterations with fully parametric facade scripts.
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average hours spent on concept design
Reference a surface. Get a facade in seconds.
Open a script, type your surface name. That’s the entire setup. Every script runs on sensible defaults — the right floor heights, spacing, and orientation for immediate results.
Get production-ready geometry in one click.
Clean NURBS output, organized on structured layers. Ready for plan production, export in BIM, hand-off to visualization.
Upgrade the design workflow in the software-stack your team is already using.
Your team designs in Rhino – same workflow – but on steroids.
Make design changes in minutes.
Don’t let your team waste project hours remodelling facades when design changes come in. Let facet take care of it.
the time it took to make the change below.
95%
faster than manual facade modelling.
Spend more time making design decisions and less time modelling.
The architectural design process is not linear. Experiments and looking for options take up most of your early (competition) design phases where the budget is tight. Let your team come up with concepts and ideas to test and let facet take care of the modelling – spend more time evaluating and dioscussing what makes the best design and less time modelling.
Speed up your facade iteration in Rhino.
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Upgrade the workflow in the software your team is already using.
Go from blank surface to detailed facade in seconds.
Rhino and Grasshopper are constantly updating. We continuously test, maintain, and update every script to ensure seamless compatibility with future versions, so a software update never costs you a deadline.
Get production-ready geometry in one click.
Your subscription guarantees ongoing access to the private Web Portal—the central hub for finding, filtering, and managing your tools. It’s your secure, always-on workshop that you can access from anywhere.
Shorten your Concept design and design development hours.
Your subscription guarantees ongoing access to the private Web Portal—the central hub for finding, filtering, and managing your tools. It’s your secure, always-on workshop that you can access from anywhere.
faster than manual facade modelling.
Make design changes in minutes.
Rhino and Grasshopper are constantly updating. We continuously test, maintain, and update every script to ensure seamless compatibility with future versions, so a software update never costs you a deadline.
95%
faster than manual facade modelling.
6 min
design change when the facades gets 3m longer
Unlock the efficiency of parametric design for your entire design team.
With facet's production-ready facade scripts.
Unlock the efficiency of parametric design for your entire design team.
No Grasshopper experience required.
A structured script library for your entire design team.
No Grasshopper experience required.
Make parametric design efficiency available to your entire design team. No more lone-wolf spaghetti code somewhere on the server nobody understands.
- Plug-and-Play for new Grasshopper users — If you can drag a slider, you can design. Quickstart guide included.
Go from abstract surface to detailed facade in 1 click.
Apply the facade to any surface with 1 click.
Apply the script to any surface in Rhino. Drag the sliders to customize your design.
Built to be used. Designed to be changed.
Reference a surface. Get a facade.
Open a script, type your surface name. That’s the entire setup. Every script runs on sensible defaults — the right floor heights, spacing, and orientation for immediate results.
Fine-tune without opening Grasshopper
Every parameter — floor height, spacing, run direction, orientation — is adjustable directly in Rhino’s properties panel. Working across multiple surfaces? Set overrides per surface using Rhino’s UserText. Each surface remembers its own settings while sharing the same script.
Bake directly onto structured Rhino Layers with materials pre-applied.
Bake the geometry to the correct layers, ready for drawings, renders, or Revit.
Go as deep as you want
Every script is fully open and annotated. Design zones — the places you’d actually want to change, like the profile of a fin or the rhythm of a panel — are clearly marked. Intermediate users customize without getting lost. Advanced users use the framework as a foundation and build on top of it.
Save hundreds of hours of design iterations
Save hours in competitions, concept design and design development.
Don’t let your team waste project hours remodelling facades when design changes come in. Let facet take care of it.
average hours spent on concept design
Make design changes in minutes.
Don’t let your team waste project hours remodelling facades when design changes come in. Let facet take care of it.
the time it took to make the change below.
Get production-ready geometry in one click.
Clean NURBS output, organized on structured layers. Ready for plan production, export in BIM, hand-off to visualization.
Here's how facet works:
Find the facade framework you need in the facet design hub
Use the facet design hub to filter readymade Grasshopper scripts by façade type, complexity, or pattern.
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Name the surface “facet-facade” to apply the script
Apply the script to any surface in Rhino. Drag the sliders to customize your design.
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Bake directly onto structured Rhino Layers with materials pre-applied.
Bake the geometry to the correct layers, ready for drawings, renders, or Revit.
Here's how facet works:
Find the facade framework you need in the facet design hub
Use the facet design hub, our gallery of professional-grade facades scripts and filter by façade type, complexity, or pattern.
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Name the surface “facet-facade” to apply the script
Name the surface “facet-facade” to apply the script. Drag the sliders to customize your design.
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Adjust and tweak the parameters to make it work for your project.
Bake the geometry to the correct layers, ready for drawings, renders, or Revit.
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Bake directly onto structured Rhino Layers with materials pre-applied.
Bake the geometry to the correct layers, ready for drawings, renders, or Revit.
From abstract surface to detailed facade in 3 steps
Find the facade framework you need in the facet gallery
Use the facet design hub to filter readymade Grasshopper scripts by façade type, complexity, or pattern.
2
Name the surface “facet-facade” to apply the script
Apply the script to any surface in Rhino using Grasshopper. Drag the sliders to customize your design.
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Bake directly onto structured Rhino Layers with materials pre-applied.
Bake the geometry to the correct layers, ready for drawings, renders, or Revit.
For your projects at every design stage
Competitions & Concept design
Test ten directions in the time it used to take to build one.
Load a script, reference your surface, adjust parameters. Run through facade families — fins, panels, louvres, grids — until you find what belongs on this building.
The facade updates. You don’t have to.
Floor height changed. Programme shifted. New opening requirements. Facet scripts are parametric — adjust one value and the facade resolves itself across the entire building envelope.
Make massing feel like architecture — instantly.
Apply convincing facade treatments to hundreds of volumes without designing a single facade. Your client sees a city, not a diagram.
The facet design hub.
Forget digging through the folder structure of a project from 7 years ago only to find outdated, broken scripts. Facet gives you a up-to-date, visual library of production-ready facade scripts.
Use powerful filters to find the exact script you need by typology, complexity, or aesthetic.
Quickly find the framework you need or get inspired.
Robust scripts built for real-world design workflows.
- Surfaces
- Polysurfaces
- Polysurfaces with trims and openings
- Single or Multiple Inputs
Supported Inputs:
Skip the complex setup and get straight to designing
Use the intuitive sliders to sculpt the form, refine the rhythm, and create an infinite number of variations. Go from a simple base to a design that is uniquely suited to your project. You are the designer; you’re just working with superpowers.
Calculate Your Payback in 15 Seconds
Enter three numbers—see how fast the Facade Engine
pays for itself. (Yes, it’s usually under a month.)
See Your Payback
Recommended plan —
For about the cost of one project kickoff meeting, you license the Engine for a year.
What's Inside?
Your creative potential is no longer limited by your modeling speed. Our library is the ultimate design sandbox. Each of the base scripts is a robust starting point, giving you the power to generate countless original designs through simple parameter adjustments.
| Family | Examples | Typical use-case |
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| Regular grids | Unitized curtain wall, expressed mullions | Corporate towers, fit-out studies |
| Tessellated panels | Triangle, diamond | Museums, civic envelopes |
| Organic skins | Gradients, point-attractors, cells | Competitions, WOW renders |
| Adaptive shading | Vertical fins, louvers | Net-zero studies, LEED daylight sims |
| Specialty panels | Shingles, folded metal, deep reveals | Boutique hotels, cultural projects |
Your best Computational Designer may leave tomorrow. Facet remains your firm's asset.
Your parametric workflows always accessible.
Your subscription guarantees ongoing access to the private Web Portal—the central hub for finding, filtering, and managing your tools. It’s your secure, always-on workshop that you can access from anywhere.
We keep the scripts up-to-date so you can focus on designing.
Rhino and Grasshopper are constantly updating. We continuously test, maintain, and update every script to ensure seamless compatibility with future versions, so a software update never costs you a deadline.
A Growing Library. More facade types. More time saved for you.
We add new, cutting-edge facade scripts to the Engine based on industry trends and user requests. Your subscription gives you immediate access, ensuring your design palette is always growing and never stale.
One library,
built for your practice.
Select your plan based on how your studio works. All prices in USD.
- Full gallery access
- New scripts as released
- 1 named login
- —Shared studio login
- —Unlimited concurrent access
- —Early access to new scripts
- —Scripts unlocked on cancellation
- —Onboarding & dedicated contact
- Full gallery access
- New scripts as released
- Shared studio login
- Unlimited concurrent access
- Early access to new scripts
- — Scripts locked on cancellation
- —Onboarding & dedicated contact
- Scripts unlocked on cancellation
- Onboarding session
- Dedicated account contact
- Annual invoice billing
- Multi-office deployment
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Prices do not include taxes. Subscription term will automatically renew until cancelled.
All Facet products are intended for professional use only and not for consumer use.
FAQs
Get answers to the most common questions about Facet.
What happens if we cancel?
Without an active license you lose portal access, new script drops, and the rights to apply definitions on future projects.
Future updates?
New facade scripts are added quarterly. Reach out if you would like to see specific designs and they’ll be added to the roadmap.
Do I need advanced Grasshopper skills?
No. If you can reference a surface and move a slider, you’re set.
A Quickstart Guide with step-by-step instructions for first-time Grasshopper users is included.
Do we get the raw GHX?
Absolutely. The definitions are neatly grouped and fully editable. You own the definitions for internal projects; redistribution or resale isn’t allowed.
Are any Grasshopper plugins required for the scripts to work?
All scripts work out-of-the-box with your default Rhino installation – no additional plugins necessary!
We’re Revit/BIM-heavy—can we still use it?
Yes. Script outputs clean geometry you can push through Evolve, Rhino.Inside, or IFC round-trip.
What version of Rhino/Grasshopper do I need?
Rhino 8
Can I use the scripts for commercial projects?
Yes!
I'm a Grasshopper Poweruser, is this useful for me?
Dive straight into creative logic—our scripts are the solid base you’ve always rewritten from scratch.
How is this different from AI image generators like Midjourney?
- You get fully editable 3D geometry, not a flat JPG
- One slider tweak gives infinite controlled variants—no prompt roulette
- Clean NURBS bake straight into Rhino-Inside or IFC, ready for detailing
Any more questions? Reach out to: thomas+questions@hopific.com