Empowering Sustainable Landscape Decisions
Sunscape™ sun exposure maps make sustainable landscape planning easier.
The smart and easy-to-use Sunscape Extension and Sunscape Application transform the way we design outdoor spaces, using precise sun exposure mapping for fact-driven landscape planning decisions. Sunscape maps day span and date range cumulative sun exposure for 3D models.
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Sunscape Delivers
Accurate Sun Mapping
Use precisely segmented time and date range cummulative sun exposure to inform your landscape planning process. Sunscape's cutting-edge sun mapping methodology and technology was developed by experts in the fields of sustainable landcare and sun mapping. The Sunscaping process is time tested with proven accuracy.
Seamless Work Integration
Sunscape Extension integrates with a SketchUp while Sunscape App functions as an independent standalone application to create precision Sunscapes for 3D models including skp, 3ds, fbx, and obj. Sunscape’s menus, toolbars, and instructive user screens make Sunscape an invaluable, easy to use tool that provides value from day one.
Productivity and Success
Sunscape’s intuitive and intelligent interface makes it easy to learn and use for immediate productivity. Use Sunscape images as model overlays to inform layout decisions and use comparative Sunscape maps to guide object selection, orientation, and location. Save time planning landscapes that save time and money, while conserving natural resources.
Create Sunscape sun exposure maps
for any daytime span
for any date range
at a specific scale
Sunscape informs your creative planning process, guiding location decisions for plants, planting areas and outdoor living spaces that optimize function, enjoyment, and sustainability.
Sunscape Extension for Sketch Up
Annual Subscription $249
Sunscape Extension effortlessly integrates with Sketch Up for an immediately productive, user-friendly experience. Use Sunscape before, during, and after planning to create landscape plans that reward clients with easy to maintain, enduring landscapes. When we work with nature, nature works for us.
Sunscape App for 3D Models
Annual Subscription $249
Sunscape App creates precise, interactive sunscapes for 3D models including but not limited to 3ds, fbx, obj, sa, sea, sac, dae, and glft file formats. Use Sunscape throughout the planning process to create landscapes synced with natural rhythms for healthy, successful outdoor spaces.
Sunscape products create sun exposure maps for 3D models providing toolbars and menus to make the p process easy to learn and use. Create multiple sun exposure maps simultaneously and save .png Sunscape images to use as model overlays to create landscape plans tuned to earth’s natural rhythms.
Sunscape Extension
How It Works
The user friendly SketchUp Extension is designed for ease of use and immediate productivity.
Apply Sunscape material to the onscreen model.
Choose time span, date range, and scale.
Press Sunscape
It’s that easy
Sunscape App
The standalone Sunscape App can be used for Revit and other 3D models.
Apply Sunscape material to an imported model.
Choose time span, date range, and scale.
Press Sunscape
It’s so easy
See it Work
Sunscape Use Cases
Use a Sunscape .png image as a model overlay to guide naturally sustainable design decisions.
Create sunscapes with objects in various locations to compare the effect on sun exposure.
Simultaneously create morning, afternoon, and full day sunscape maps to identify the perfect place with the right sun exposure at the right time.
Learn about Sunscape Evolution and Ecoscape Founder here.
Ecoscape is driven by the goal of encouraging earth-sustainable behavior.
We believe that by helping people plan and plant responsibly we can help reduce the use of earth harmful chemicals and reduce the overuse of earth’s precious natural resources in landscapes.
Sunscape products were created by sustainable gardening and solar mapping experts with years of experience mapping sun exposure and creating beautiful, successful, sustainable gardens using Sunscape.
“As landscape decision makers we have the power to foster sustainable behavior in landscapes.
— Dayle Cosway, Founder and CEO
Ecoscape is continuing to code nature’s rhythms. Look for additional sustainable landscape empowerment apps, coming soon.