Building Design System

Tenant: woodfine · Public URL: https://bim.woodfinegroup.com

Eight token primitives. Eighteen components. Cities as design-system publishers.

The AEC equivalent of a foundation design system, anchored on IFC 4.3 and Uniclass 2015. Designers who already know Revit, ArchiCAD, BricsCAD, or Bonsai already know the substrate.

Token categories
8
Component recipes
3
Research backplane entries
3

What this is

A flat-file BIM substrate that travels with the building. The archive is a directory of plain-text and standardised-binary files (IFC-SPF, BCF 3.0, IDS 1.0, COBie, glTF, CityJSONSeq, per-element YAML sidecars, hash-addressed object store) readable for decades after any specific software vendor is gone. The building outlives the software; the file format outlives the vendor; the archive travels with the land.

Five hyperscaler-incompatible capabilities

  1. Asset-anchored BIM. The digital twin is signed with the land title and transfers with the deed.
  2. Offline-capable BIM for field use. Basements, rooftops, air-gapped defence facilities, regulated healthcare campuses.
  3. Vendor-obsolescence-survivable BIM. Buildings live 50+ years; file formats outlive the vendors that wrote them.
  4. IoT integration directly into the BIM archive. Sensor readings as per-element YAML sidecars; data never leaves the owner's premises.
  5. BIM + lease register + financial ledger as one portable archive. For a property owner these are the same asset.