New York based facade manufacturer Dextall announced Kora Studio 1.0 on October 21, 2026, a design and modeling tool that lets architects lay out prefabricated facade panels inside Revit. The release focuses on checking whether a facade can actually be manufactured, transported and installed while it is still being designed.
What’s new
Kora Studio lets architects define the panel grid, cladding and windows directly, using one adaptive family for every panel on a wall. According to the announcement, version 1.0 includes:
- Cladding cells that can be flat, volumetric or tilted, with a live 3D view while editing.
- Fixed, operable or louvered windows in any RAL color, plus support for third-party window content.
- Automatic corner detection based on the angle where walls meet.
- Area calculations stored as shared parameters, along with schedules and elevation hatching.
- “Design Notifications” that flag panels outside manufacturing, transport or installation limits, based on production data rather than rules of thumb.
The tool models the exterior of the facade in detail and deliberately leaves the wall interior (insulation, sheathing, framing, anchors) empty. Dextall says it works with any prefabricated or unitized facade system and that models can move to fabrication without being redrawn from elevations. The company also claims a complex parametric family that takes about two days to build by hand can be produced in about five minutes, and says 25 firms tested the tool in hands-on sessions between February and August 2026.
Kora Studio is available now on a freemium model. Pricing for paid tiers and supported Revit versions were not stated in the announcement; a demo can be booked on the Kora Studio website.
Why it matters
Facade panelization is often handled with heavy custom families or handed off to fabricators who redraw the design. A tool that validates buildability during schematic and design development could reduce that rework for teams working on mid-rise and high-rise projects with unitized systems. CEO Aurimas Sabulis summed up the goal: “Architects should be designing, not acting as engineers or doing busywork.”
BIM managers should note that the performance figures are vendor claims, and that the tool comes from a facade manufacturer. Before adopting it, check Revit version compatibility, the limits of the free tier, and how the generated families fit existing templates and parameter standards.
Source
Read the original announcement: GlobeNewswire (Kora Studio)
