Enjoy the Sun, Anywhere.

SunPortal by Detroit Landmark Development is a smart artificial skylight system designed to bring the feeling of natural daylight into interior spaces where traditional windows or skylights may not be possible. Controlled through PropertyDek, SunPortal allows residents, property managers, and building operators to adjust lighting scenes, color temperature, seasonal settings, and ambiance directly from the PropertyDek platform.

As Detroit Landmark Development continues to rethink affordable, workforce, and adaptive reuse housing, SunPortal represents a new layer of smart building innovation: technology that improves comfort, mood, design flexibility, and the overall resident experience.

Key Features

Natural Light Simulation
 SunPortal creates the feeling of daylight indoors through smart ceiling-mounted light panels that mimic the color, brightness, and atmosphere of natural sunlight.

PropertyDek Integration
 Residents and operators can control SunPortal through PropertyDek, allowing lighting scenes to be managed alongside other smart apartment features such as thermostats, locks, dimmers, blinds, and energy settings.

Multiple Scene Modes
 The system includes ambient light scene modes, sunlight scene modes, seasonal scene modes, rhythmic modes, and customizable color options. This gives users flexibility for different times of day, moods, activities, and interior environments.

Wide Color Temperature Range
 With a wide CCT range from 1800K to 12000K, SunPortal can shift from warm, relaxing light to bright daylight tones depending on the desired setting.

Ultra-High Quality Light
 SunPortal is designed with high-quality light performance, including CRI/CQS 97, helping interior spaces feel more natural, comfortable, and visually balanced.

Eye Care and Comfort
 SunPortal is designed to support visual comfort while creating a softer and more natural indoor lighting experience.

Natural Window Shadow Design
 The panels can create the look and feel of natural window-shadow effects, helping interior rooms feel more open, bright, and connected to the outdoors.

Flexible Panel Design
 Multiple splicing allows the panels to be arranged in different configurations, making SunPortal adaptable for apartments, offices, amenity spaces, wellness rooms, hospitality spaces, and adaptive reuse projects.

Use Cases

Apartments and Interior Bedrooms
 SunPortal can help make low-light rooms, interior bedrooms, and spaces with limited window access feel brighter, more open, and more livable. By simulating daylight overhead, the system can improve how residents experience rooms that would otherwise feel enclosed or disconnected from natural light.

Offices and Workspaces
 In offices, conference rooms, wellness rooms, and shared work areas, SunPortal can create a more comfortable environment by providing daylight-inspired lighting throughout the day. This can support focus, visual comfort, and a more inviting workplace experience, especially in areas far from exterior windows.

Amenity and Wellness Spaces
 Fitness rooms, lounges, meditation rooms, community rooms, and resident amenity areas can use SunPortal to create a brighter, more uplifting atmosphere. Different lighting scenes can be used to support relaxation, energy, seasonal ambiance, or programmed resident experiences.

Hospitality and Extended-Stay Units
 Hotels, short-term rentals, and extended-stay apartments can use SunPortal to make interior rooms feel more premium and comfortable. The ability to change scenes and simulate natural daylight can help create a more memorable guest experience.

Historic Buildings and Adaptive Reuse Projects
 Many historic buildings were not originally designed for modern residential layouts. SunPortal gives developers more flexibility to activate deeper floor plates, interior spaces, and rooms where adding traditional windows or skylights may be impractical, restricted, or cost-prohibitive.

Office-to-Residential Conversions
 Office-to-residential conversions often face one of the biggest design challenges in adaptive reuse: deep floor plates with interior areas that lack direct access to natural sunlight. Traditionally, developers may explore expensive structural interventions, such as core drilling or cutting atriums through existing floor plates, to bring daylight into the center of the building.

SunPortal offers a less invasive alternative. Instead of relying solely on costly atrium openings, SunPortal can be used to provide circadian-directed artificial sunlight into interior spaces where the absence of natural sunlight is less noticeable. This allows developers to improve the perceived brightness, comfort, and usability of interior rooms while preserving more of the existing building structure. For projects like office-to-residential conversions, SunPortal can help unlock layouts that would otherwise be difficult to make feel livable. It supports more efficient unit planning, better use of interior square footage, and a more desirable resident experience without requiring major structural modifications to bring daylight through the building.