LUC
Supporting the Forestry Commission with Visualisations for Sustainable Landscape Management
Supporting the Forestry Commission with Visualisations for Sustainable Landscape Management
Details:
- Company: LUC
- Client: Forestry Commission
- Year: 2025
- Region: England
Service areas:
- Visualisation, 3D modelling and animations
- Environmental and sustainability services
- Plan-making, planning application and data management systems
Introduction
LUC’s visualisation team specialises in creating technical, high-quality visual outputs that help clients understand the relationship between their projects and the wider environment. We recently supported the Forestry Commission by delivering visualisations that illustrate the likely impact of their work to protect vulnerable landscapes and forests.
Key scenarios included agroforestry and resilient landscapes. Our visual outputs enabled the Forestry Commission to explore potential impacts.
Key scenarios included agroforestry and resilient landscapes. Our visual outputs enabled the Forestry Commission to explore potential impacts.
Challenges
The Forestry Commission needed a way to show the effects of different forestry approaches to produce accurate and engaging visualisations. They required visuals that could model future scenarios, demonstrate benefits, clearly support stakeholder engagement and strengthen funding applications.
Solutions
We developed detailed visualisations for:
Agroforestry – Combining trees and shrubs with crops and livestock, agroforestry is a complex land use system. We created conceptual 3D axonometric visuals showing how landscapes could be adapted to support both agricultural production and ecological resilience. Multiple viewpoints helped communicate the design flexibility and multifunctional nature of these systems.
Resilient landscapes – Using Blender, we built 3D models to show the long-term benefits of proactive, informed forest management. We sculpted bespoke digital terrains and scattered tree species to recreate real-life conditions, providing a realistic vision of future landscapes under sustainable management.
Agroforestry – Combining trees and shrubs with crops and livestock, agroforestry is a complex land use system. We created conceptual 3D axonometric visuals showing how landscapes could be adapted to support both agricultural production and ecological resilience. Multiple viewpoints helped communicate the design flexibility and multifunctional nature of these systems.
Resilient landscapes – Using Blender, we built 3D models to show the long-term benefits of proactive, informed forest management. We sculpted bespoke digital terrains and scattered tree species to recreate real-life conditions, providing a realistic vision of future landscapes under sustainable management.
Results
Our agroforestry visuals illustrate how a modelled approach can enhance crop yields and encourage biodiversity, enabling landowners to maximise the potential of their land while creating benefits and opportunities for nature.
Our resilient landscape visuals showcase the benefits of long-term forestry management, showing how stakeholders can achieve resilient landscapes with increased biodiversity and soil health.
These technically engaging models are a valuable presentation tool and strengthen the Forestry Commission’s ability to communicate the value of their work and plan for future initiatives. They also serve as a foundation for developing further landscape scenarios in support of nature-based solutions and climate resilience.
Our resilient landscape visuals showcase the benefits of long-term forestry management, showing how stakeholders can achieve resilient landscapes with increased biodiversity and soil health.
These technically engaging models are a valuable presentation tool and strengthen the Forestry Commission’s ability to communicate the value of their work and plan for future initiatives. They also serve as a foundation for developing further landscape scenarios in support of nature-based solutions and climate resilience.
