RainShade design sketch by WindFire Designs

It's only a concept. But our fantasy to reality conversion ratio is off the charts.

A picture is worth a thousand failed attempts.

Our models are everything

They are, at once, both miniature worlds and analog computers

The Process

Every site-specific RainShade we make starts with a very detailed survey that has all sorts of measurements that are meaningful to us.

Every property seems to have a natural flow. Through the modeling process, we determine everything about the rules of the project.

Out the window

This is a view out of the bedroom window. What will it look like? The model shows everything. The capabilities of the model always feel like magic when the model is done.

Scale and compute

Projecting the sun lines

These models are dead accurate, and all of our dimensions come from them. They are analog computers.

They also perfectly show actual shade lines on a property.

Shading a pool projected in summer and in winter.

Shade and sun designed to happen when you want them.

Shape capture and design

Analog compute

Digital compute

The construction

Curves on curves

A big part of why these don't exist elsewhere is that the willingness to sew this stuff is exceedingly rare.

Sewn loops

316 stainless rings and UV impervious lifetime thread.

painstaking sewing

Installing RainShades

The process

  • first step