Natural stone is a locally available and energy-efficient alternative to the CO2-intensive building materials concrete or artificial masonry. The work presented in this paper is part of a larger research project that is in its initial phase and aimed at exploring the great potential of natural stone for load-bearing elements such as walls and floor slabs. In addition to the mechanical properties and structural potentials of the building material, the focus will be on cost efficiency. The overall goal is to develop a catalog of building components for recyclable and modular structural elements made of natural stone, which enables planners to make plausible assumptions for the project-dependent requirements already in the early stages of the project. This is intended to facilitate access to the material, which has so far been rarely used in contemporary load-bearing constructions in Germany, to increase acceptance among those involved in construction, and to establish resource-efficient construction methods in the long term. The paper presents criteria for economical load-bearing elements from solid natural stone and a promising approach to reduce the waste rate of natural stone used as structural elements, thereby minimizing the cost of this construction method. A software tool is proposed to be developed within the Grasshopper environment, functioning as an interface between the planning, production, and processing of natural stone.