- Kshitij Bhatnagar
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- FARsight
FARsight
A zoning-compliance copilot for architects
Built by Kshitij Bhatnagar
A pre-submission FAR and zoning checker for architects: pick the region, upload an IFC design, and get a pass/fail report with the cited clause and the change needed to comply.
The spark
Architects I know waste days manually cross-checking designs against dense, non-machine-readable zoning PDFs, and still risk a rejection at submission.
What was built
I built the compliance core first: it parses an IFC model with IfcOpenShell, computes FAR and ground coverage, and checks them against cited, versioned rule packs for residential plots. Delhi's numbers are verified against the MPD-2021 table and Gurugram's against the Haryana Building Code 2017, with Noida marked provisional because its regulations only exist as scanned PDFs. Detecting the zone from a map pin is the next step.
Architecture
- IFC (ISO 16739) parsing via IfcOpenShell
- Hand-curated, cited, versioned rule packs
- Deterministic gap solver suggests the fix
Highlights
- Region, IFC upload, pass/fail report
- Pass/fail with fixes to comply
- Delhi and Gurugram rules verified
- A pre-check, not a legal authority