Design Lab

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Describe a garden, then walk into it

Your words become a garden you can walk through, then a printable design brief.

34 / Procedural worlds · WebGL · service design

Sampleton
Garden Rooms

A garden brief, grown from your words.Invented service demonstration

Before the
first spade.

A place to eat. Space to grow. A quiet corner that feels like yours. Describe the garden you want, then step inside a first idea.

01 / Tell us what belongs here

Try woodland, meadow, pond, vegetables, fruit, play, table, quiet, coastal or modern. These words shape the rooms. Other words change the planting pattern.

Assumed dimensions for this concept. No site survey is used.

The view and brief match this description.

Or start with a different life outside
02 / Step into the idea12 × 18 m
The numbered plan is ready below.

If the 3D view cannot load, use the room list to explore every feature and build your brief.

Generated concept · Bird’s-eye view

Focus the view, then use arrow keys or W A S D. Explore the paths, or jump to any room below. Reduced motion: views change without travel.

216 m² model plot0.0 m walked6 of 6 rooms keptSeed 58AD8618

Words we used Meadow / flowers · Grow food · Eating outdoors

Six rooms, filled with planting where no use is specified. Simple word rules, with “no”, “without”, “not” or “avoid” cancelling nearby words. Modern changes the boundary; woodland and coastal also change the ground and planting.

03 / Make it your brief

Keep what feels right.

Look around each room. Keep the ones you want to discuss and add what the picture cannot tell us.

Removing a room from your brief leaves its space in the concept. Grey on the plan means left out of your shortlist.

123456Entrance · 12 × 18 m

Your position when walking
Numbers match the room list.

Central path: 1.6 × 18 m.
Path area in model: 28.8 m².

Room 1 / Flower meadow

An open planting room with drifts of flowers and grasses. Leave a mown edge beside the path.

Bring this question
How much seasonal cutting and clearing would you take on?

A useful next step

Your garden,
on one brief.

A numbered plan, 6 chosen rooms, design questions and your notes. Open the downloaded file in a browser to print or save as a PDF.

Your first concept is ready. Walk in, or choose a different starting point.

A concept for a conversation. Actual dimensions, sun, soil, drainage, access, maintenance and water safety need review before a design is agreed. No site is measured here.

Everything runs on this page. No description is sent to a service. The same words and plot size produce the same world.

Remake it

Build one interactive web page: Sampleton Garden Rooms turns a description into a deterministic planted world. Walk the paths at eye height, inspect six rooms, choose what belongs in your brief and download a numbered plan with design questions and your own notes.

Set it on an invented business called Sampleton, with its own drawn or generated pictures and no one else's files. It suits: Early garden design conversations where experiencing enclosure, scale and competing uses helps a visitor express a brief. Do not let it fail the way this kind of piece usually does: A world that ignores the description, a camera that traps keyboard users, or a beautiful tour with no useful outcome. Recognised words are disclosed, room buttons provide direct access, the HTML plan works without WebGL, and the visitor takes away a printable brief. Motion only follows an action and changes instantly under reduced motion.

It must work with the keyboard, on a phone, with reduced motion respected and no text under 12px. Tell me which libraries you chose and why.
Notes: when it suits, when it does not, how it fails
When it suits
Early garden design conversations where experiencing enclosure, scale and competing uses helps a visitor express a brief.
When it does not
Surveyed designs, exact plant selection, drainage calculations, access certification or construction quantities.
How it fails
A world that ignores the description, a camera that traps keyboard users, or a beautiful tour with no useful outcome. Recognised words are disclosed, room buttons provide direct access, the HTML plan works without WebGL, and the visitor takes away a printable brief. Motion only follows an action and changes instantly under reduced motion.

Made by Codex from Pete's brief to apply describing and entering a generated world to a useful invented Sampleton business. A local deterministic generator, with no AI or network service at runtime.