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Solar-powered shade
and ambient light system
R‑LUME was developed in response to the design brief: create a product that enhances the Rivian Experience Center. The result is a foldable, solar-powered system that provides both shade and ambient lighting. It passively tracks the sun throughout the day to offer optimal coverage, while integrated solar panels store energy to softly illuminate the space at night.
R-Lume
2025
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USER RESEARCH
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
PROTOTYPING & FORM EXPLORATION
RENDERING & VISUALIZATION
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What if the environment adapted to you—wherever you landed?
What if the environment adapted to you—wherever you landed?
R-LUME is your portable, responsive environment.
THE GOAL
To enable remote workers to thrive outdoors by creating seamless experiences that balance productivity, comfort, and immersion in nature
THE GOAL
To enable remote workers to thrive outdoors by creating seamless experiences that balance productivity, comfort, and immersion in nature
Understanding
Rivian
"Designing products for the future"
To ensure the planet remains both habitable and sustain future generations, we must reduce carbon emissions and step away from fossil fuels. Rivian aims to accelerate this shift by reimagining transportation and energy systems for a cleaner, more resilient future.
Understanding
Rivian
"Designing products for the future"
To ensure the planet remains both habitable and sustain future generations, we must reduce carbon emissions and step away from fossil fuels. Rivian aims to accelerate this shift by reimagining transportation and energy systems for a cleaner, more resilient future.
Where Clean Energy Meets Outdoor Productivity.
Where Clean Energy Meets Outdoor Productivity.
Unpredictable Shade, Unproductive Hours
Remote workers are increasingly seeking time outside, but harsh sun, shifting shade, and limited lighting make most outdoor environments unusable. Without consistent shade during the day or illumination at night, productivity and comfort drop. The result: they’re forced back indoors.
35 million
US workers are fully remote professionals who seek flexibility and inspiring environments to boost creativity and focus (Gallup, 2023)
This growing population of remote professionals has the motivation and lifestyle that would take them outside—but lacks the tools that make outdoor work physically comfortable, reliable, and uninterrupted.
Unpredictable Shade, Unproductive Hours
Remote workers are increasingly seeking time outside, but harsh sun, shifting shade, and limited lighting make most outdoor environments unusable. Without consistent shade during the day or illumination at night, productivity and comfort drop. The result: they’re forced back indoors.
Intelligence Powered by the Sun.
R-LUME uses a sun-tracking solar canopy that adjusts its position automatically throughout the day to maintain consistent shade and generate clean energy.
Light-sensing photo cells track the sun’s direction and send that data to a control mechanism that rotates and tilts the panels on two axes, keeping the canopy aligned with the sun. This optimizes shade coverage and solar energy capture, enabling R-LUME to power its own movement and store energy for nighttime lighting. The result is a fully self-sustaining system that adapts automatically to changing conditions, providing stable comfort wherever you land.
Intelligence Powered by the Sun.
R-LUME uses a sun-tracking solar canopy that adjusts its position automatically throughout the day to maintain consistent shade and generate clean energy.
Light-sensing photo cells track the sun’s direction and send that data to a control mechanism that rotates and tilts the panels on two axes, keeping the canopy aligned with the sun. This optimizes shade coverage and solar energy capture, enabling R-LUME to power its own movement and store energy for nighttime lighting. The result is a fully self-sustaining system that adapts automatically to changing conditions, providing stable comfort wherever you land.
Concealed Wiring for Seamless Design
Concealed Wiring for Seamless Design
Foldable.
Portable.
Always ready to go.
Foldable.
Portable.
Always ready to go.
Sized to fit the Rivian bed.
Sized to fit the Rivian bed.
Concept and Form Development
Concept and Form Development
CMF
Prototyping Process
Prototyping Process
