Architectural design rendering
Bring your structures to life with the greatest ease, in the highest quality
Fit for your creative process
Easy to learn, satisfying to use, and quick to render, Lumion keeps you in your creative flow—from the early stages of design development to the final client presentation.
Meet Lumion View for SketchUp
Your early-stage design companion
When you're in the early stages of a project, every choice counts. You need to move fast, test ideas easily, and make quick decisions.
This where Lumion View comes in—a real-time visualization plugin made for conceptual design—right inside SketchUp.
Visualize while you design, test massing, lighting, and materiality, and create quick diagrams and 4K renders on the fly.
Now in Early Access and free for all Lumion Pro subscribers.
Lumion View will be compatible with Lumion 2025.0—coming soon.
From start to finish
Once your design is in place, Lumion Pro gives you the tools to tell the story—rich with atmosphere, detail, and emotion.
From residential homes to commercial spaces, shape how your design is seen and felt with realistic lighting, materials, and context.
Create images, videos, and panoramas that communicate your vision—clearly, quickly, and with impact.
Seamless workflow
Lumion Pro is compatible with the tools you already use for real-time iteration and a more efficient process. Model and render in perfect sync with the free Lumion LiveSync plug-in.
A world of possibilities
Build surrounding context, control the lighting and weather conditions, apply and customize materials, and add detail with thousands of objects, entourage, and nature items. See how Lumion enables you to bring your architectural designs to life.
Make surfaces feel real
From polished concrete in a courtyard to warm wood paneling in a family home, materials shape how a space feels—and how it’s experienced. With Lumion Pro, you can make every surface tell a story.
Access thousands of high-quality, ready-to-use materials, all customizable to suit your exact needs.
Add subtle weathering, soften edges, layer on decals, or adjust surface relief with displacement maps.
With Lumion’s physically based rendering (PBR) material editor, you're not just applying textures—you're shaping how light interacts with your design. Fine-tune roughness, metalness, gloss, opacity, reflectivity, and more, all in real-world units for professional precision.
Add subtle weathering, soften edges, layer on decals, or adjust surface relief with displacement maps.
See your designs in a new light
Lighting plays a subtle but powerful role in architectural design. It shapes mood, defines form, and brings out the character of every surface. With Lumion Pro, lighting feels natural—powerful when you need it, effortless when you don’t.
From sun studies to atmospheric lighting setups, it’s easy to test, adjust, and get results that just look right—true to your design and full of detail. Ray tracing takes care of the realism. Soft shadows, accurate reflections, and natural lighting conditions—no complex setup, just clarity from the start.
Context at your fingertips
Architecture doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Whether you’re visualizing a home, a campus, or a civic space, the environment around your design matters.
With Lumion Pro’s built-in library, you can quickly place your project in a believable setting. Choose from thousands of high-quality models—over 2,200 nature assets, 900 characters, and 4,000 objects—to shape atmosphere, show scale, and bring it all to life.
Suggest more with less
When you're developing concepts or building maquettes, it's all about clarity—getting the form, scale, and context right without unnecessary clutter.
Lumion’s beautiful collection of low-poly nature, people, and urban elements helps you quickly add context while keeping your scene light. The focus stays where it should—on your design.
Add a touch of magic
Architectural rendering is about more than showing form—it’s about sharing how a space might feel.
With Lumion’s easy-to-use atmospheric effects, you can shape mood, convey time and place, and turn a simple render into a story that resonates. Small tweaks, big impact.
Instantly set the mood of your architectural rendering with over 50 different HDRI skies or import your custom ones.
Plus you can tweak the heading, brightness, sun intensity, and create easy sky animations.
Reveal your design in different weather conditions with atmospheric rain and snow or add a burst of color with the autumn effect.
Give your renders an artistic touch and signature style with custom LUTs, preset styles, and other easy-to-use color correction and post processing effects.
Communicate with impact
From conceptual to realistic
Choose from 8 different predefined styles to instantly balance light, depth, and realism. You can also create custom effect stacks that you can easily reuse across projects, to give all your architectural renders a signature style.
Inspire at every angle
Embed life, color, and texture into your technical renderings and presentation boards. With Lumion Pro, you can make stunning orthographic views with lively plans, sections, and elevations of your design.
Tell a compelling story
Show the process behind your design’s development or construction through the power of animated phasing.
Reveal your creativity
Compare multiple model and material variations and show different design solutions to guide the decision-making process.
