Context

The foundation for finishes schedules, sales packs and specification packs.

Architecture is the richest category for variations — each unit can have different finish combinations, each floor its own typology, and every design revision moves dozens of rooms. Cubica organises all architectural quantities into a single filterable dataset, feeding finishes, sales and tenders.

On your side

What we need

Architectural model Revit (.rvt) or IFC with complete room compartmentation
Finishes identified by type in every room
Joinery and metalwork families placed with parameters — not placeholders

On our side

What you receive

Areas by typology, floor and unit (m²) — T0, T1, T2, T3...
Floor, ceiling and wall areas by finish type — ceramic, wood flooring, paint, dropped ceiling
Exterior facade cladding (ETICS, render, stone) and glazing by m²
Skirting, cornice, moulding and sill perimeters (m)
Railing, handrail and balustrade lengths (m)
Door and window counts by typology
Opening schedule + joinery and metalwork by typology
2D/3D drawing (DXF/DWG) of the measured finishes and openings — layered and colour-coded by category, with each element's ID, unit typology and floor, matching directly to the Excel and the model

Sample deliverable

Areas per room, with the real paintable area already deducted.

Excerpt from Architecture.xlsx — simplified example. The real file includes tabs per unit and per floor.

Arquitetura.xlsx

Reference project: residential building · 44 units · 7 floors + basement · 2 145 m² plot.

Item	Unit	Quantity
Areas by unit typology
1-bed (12 units)	m²	780
2-bed (18 units)	m²	1 620
3-bed (14 units)	m²	1 750
Total private area	m²	4 150
Interior finishes (floors, walls, ceilings)
Ceramic tile (wet areas)	m²	1 284
Wood flooring (dry areas)	m²	2 866
Wall paint	m²	9 420
Plasterboard dropped ceiling	m²	3 980
Exterior envelope (facade, glazing)
Exterior cladding (ETICS)	m²	2 450
Glazing (frames + glass)	m²	640
Perimeters (skirting, cornice, balustrades)
Wood skirting	m	2 140
Continuous cornice	m	1 680
Handrails and balustrades	m	318
Openings and joinery (by typology)
Interior doors	un	236
Armoured entrance doors	un	44
Aluminium windows	un	168
Wardrobe doors	un	212
Openings total	un	660

Every value is auditable back to the source element — filter by unit, by floor, by typology. At each design revision it reprocesses with no manual remeasuring.

Difference

Why not by hand, and why not a generic tool

Better than measuring by hand

Wall area always comes out with openings already removed.The subtraction is in the calculation, not in a formula someone has to drag down. The gap between gross and net is around 10%.
Wall hidden behind kitchens and wardrobes appears in its own column.On real buildings we measured 7.7% extra paint when counting gross area. That wall stays visible, in its own column, for you to decide on — rather than dropping out of the count unannounced.
Each surface's finish is read from the model, and the sheet says when it could not be.Around three in four rooms carry the finish from the model itself. The rest come out marked as assumed.

What generic tools do not do

When there is doubt about which unit a room belongs to, the result says so.It comes out amber, not as a round number that hides the doubt — and the doubt is worth more than an invented certainty.
Every delivery states how many elements it read and by which route.Including what it could not read. Floor-to-ceiling height, for instance, is flagged line by line as measured or assumed.
The same building gives the same result in Portuguese, English and Spanish.Checked on every run, so an international team works from the same takeoff.

We do not compare our work to anyone else's without having measured it. If you already extract rooms another way, send us the model: we run both and show the difference, number by number, on your own building.

Every number in this section comes from real measurements and can be substantiated on request. What we have not measured, we do not claim.

Scope

Cubica measures every modelled element and returns the 3D/DXF of everything measured, so each quantity can be checked against its geometric origin. The scope of the measurement is, by definition, the content of the model supplied: elements that were never modelled, or modelled incorrectly upstream, cannot be measured by any extraction method — which is why we report in writing the omissions and inconsistencies we find along the way.

The service is delivered from the model and documentation supplied, without a site visit: we measure what that information represents. Existing conditions it does not represent therefore fall outside the scope — changes made on site, deterioration, concealed elements and pre-existing works. Where a divergence between the model and what is built is identified, we reprocess the measurement on the corrected information.

Architecture.