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  • For designers who want to see it before it is built.

    Photoreal renders from sketches and models, video and creative upscaling, moodboards that turn references into direction — on one real-time canvas the whole team works in.

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Villa in the hills · Exterior
Penthouse interiorRow
Kitchen optionsMosaic
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Push the golden-hour light a touch warmer ☀️
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Studio

For studios that run projects, people and money in one place.

Scheduling

Plan the whole project, phase by phase.

Phases, milestones and tasks on one timeline the whole studio shares. Move a phase and what depends on it moves too; the days already logged stay where they happened.

Villa in the hills · schedule12 months · 5 phases
Phase
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Concept
Schematic design
Design development
Construction documents
Construction admin
The plan as agreed

Resourcing

Always know who's available and what's coming next.

Every person, every week. Bookings come straight from the schedule, leave and public holidays are already deducted, and an overload shows up before it happens. Drag a booking to someone else and both loads update as you drop it.

This month94%
Mon 27
Tue 28
Wed 29
Thu 30
Fri 31
GC
Giulia Conti112%
Senior architect
Milan officeRevit+2
Villa in the hills6h
Design development
Pantelleria4h
Concept
Site visit · Villa2h
Construction admin
MF
James Hart62%
Junior architect
Milan officeRhino+3
Civic library5h
Competition
Giulia is over capacity this week

Timesheets

Log time where the work is.

The plan proposes the day; one click logs it. Hours land on the project and the phase they belong to, so reports and margins read from real time rather than estimates.

My timesheet · week 4428h of 40h
Mon8h
Villa · DD
6:00
Pantelleria
2:00
Tue8h
Villa · DD
4:00
Civic library
4:00
Wed8h
Pantelleria
8:00
Thu4h
Villa · DD
4:00
Site visit · Villa
Log 2:00 ↗
Fri0h
Villa · DD
Log 4:00 ↗
The plan proposes Thursday's site visit

Finance & reports

Know the margin before the invoice.

Fees, loaded labour and expenses per project and per phase, budget burn against progress, and an alert the moment a phase gets close to its fee — in the studio's currency, at the rates in force that day.

Fee
$0
Costs, loaded
$0
Margin
0%
Fee vs labour by phasefeelabour
Concept
47%
Schematic design
55%
Design development
96%
Construction documents
25%
Construction admin
0%
Design development is close to its fee
Labour on this phase stands at 96% of its $60,000 fee.

Canvas & moodboards

An infinite canvas for every project, made for design work.

Think Miro or Milanote, built for designers: every project has its own shared canvas where the team drops references, sketches and renders, comments in place, frames the options and builds the moodboards that set the direction — and generates the next render right there.

Villa in the hills · canvas4 online
Exterior · options
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Warmer light on the terrace ☀️
Client approved this direction — let's iterate on materials.
Moodboard · MaterialsShared
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References and renders on one board, comments in place
Designer

For designers who want to see it before it is built.

See it before it is built, then refine until it is right.

Photoreal renders from sketches and models, video and creative upscaling, moodboards that turn references into direction — on one real-time canvas the whole team works in.

Designer tools

Visualize with intention

Start from what you already have. One input becomes every deliverable the project needs.

Sketchup and any 3d viewport
Floorplans & Sections
Maps
Raw render
Animate
Input
Sketchup and any 3d viewport
Full-Scene Rendering
Output
Full-Scene Rendering

Full-Scene Rendering

Photoshoot

Moodboard

Material Options

Physical Model

Sketch Style

The composers

Three rooms off the canvas

Every render lands on the canvas. When one needs more than a prompt, it opens in the room built for that kind of work — and comes back to the same canvas when you are done.

Layers, masks and selections over a generated image. Brush the chairs, say “make the upholstery ochre”, and the edit arrives as its own layer you can switch off again — then stack a grade on top and warm the whole room. Nothing is overwritten.

The composers come with the Designer seat, on the Designer and Suite plans.

Infinite Iterations

Refine until it's perfect

Refinement is not one moment. It runs from the first concept image to the pack you hand over, and every pass builds on the last.

Concept

Start from what you already have.

A sketch, a massing model, a screenshot from the viewport. The first render is a starting point, not a deliverable — and every version after it stays in the project.

  • No re-upload between edits
  • Every version kept and comparable
  • Works from a sketch, a model or a render
Iteration 1Iteration 2Iteration 3Iteration 4Iteration 5Original
Original
Material swap
Suite

Everything in Designer and Studio, for the whole studio.

One project

The render and the phase are the same project.

On Suite a project has both halves. Work made on the canvas is filed against the phase it belongs to, so the hours behind a render land in the plan without anyone re-typing them — and the schedule stops being a document that describes the work from a distance.

Villa in the hillsDesigner + Studio
Canvas
new
Schedule
Concept
Design development
+6h
Construction docs
Filed against Design development
The project as it stands — canvas on one side, plan on the other

Seats

A designer seat and a studio seat, held independently.

Nobody pays for a side they do not use. A designer takes a Designer seat, a project manager takes a Studio seat, and the person who does both simply holds both. Everyone else reads the project for free.

Designer2/3Studio2/4
GCGiulia ContiDesignerStudio
JHJames HartDesignerStudio
CRCamille RouxStudio
ECEmily CarterStudioViewer · free
Two designers, two project managers

End to end

From the moodboard to the margin.

One unbroken line: references become renders, renders sit in a phase, hours land on that phase, and the margin reads from the same numbers. No export, no second tool, no reconciling two versions of the truth at the end of the month.

One project, end to end$198,000
References
12
Renders
34
Phase
Design development
Hours logged
128h
Margin
46%
Every step reads from the same project — nothing is re-entered

Growing

The plan scales with the studio.

Start with one of each. Add a Designer seat when another designer joins, a Studio seat when another project manager needs the schedule — at any time, without moving to a different plan. Everyone else keeps reading the project for free.

Seats on this studioAdd or remove any time
Designer1
Studio1
Everyone else — viewersFree
One designer, one project manager

Who it's for

Built for the people who shape space

Five ways studios use Luce. Same canvas, different deliverables — pick yours.

Iterate at concept speed.

Test façades, materials and light conditions in an afternoon, while the idea is still fluid. The model stays in your tools; the options come here.

  • A massing or sketch rendered into ten directions, not one
  • Materials and time of day swapped without re-modelling
  • The walkthrough storyboarded for the client review
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Render modesIterationsStoryboard

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Render modes + iterations

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Client review deck

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