Desktop Site Scene — A full GIS scene showing the villa embedded into a steep hillside above Lake Lugano with transparent materials, contour lines, parcel boundaries, slope data, lake views, and site analysis panels.

1/5

Architectural Site Intelligence

Vista Villa

Architectural GIS scene explorer for a hillside villa with terrain, parcels, contours, vegetation, solar, and viewshed context.

Year

2026

Duration

7 months

Location

Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland

Surfaces

Stack

Architecture

GCP

Mapping

ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScriptArcGIS Scene LayersArcGIS BuildingSceneLayerGoogle Maps Photorealistic 3D TilesGoogle Map Tiles APICesiumJSMapLibreSwissTopo

Code

ReactNext.jsSwiftUIRealityKitSceneKitMetalWebGLWebGPU

Vertex AIGemini APIDocument AIVector SearchSpatial reasoning agentsMultilingual AI summaries

Conceptual application work, created with the listed platforms and APIs and tested across the indicated surfaces.

Details

Multi-device architectural GIS application for desktop, iPhone, and iPad

Transparent hillside villa model integrated with terrain, parcels, contours, and lake context

Room and terrace selection with floor, area, orientation, height, and view-quality metadata

Viewshed analysis for Lake Lugano visibility and directional exposure

Solar exposure analysis for terraces, roof areas, façades, and selected rooms

Parcel, setback, vegetation buffer, contour, slope, and site-planning overlays

Multilingual review workflow for English, German, and Italian stakeholders

AI-assisted site summaries, spatial search, design recommendations, and document extraction

Designed for architecture, real estate, planning, environmental review, and client presentation