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Aerial view from a drone to the south-east on a summer midday, with the roof open. The shell reads as a ring of copper over larch sides on a gritstone base, round an opening into the garden: stone flags, a long narrow rill, an olive, a fig and a red Japanese maple, a long table with chairs on the north side and a wide oak bridge crossing at first floor level. Along the north edge of the opening sits a row of glass panels. A small terrace with two chairs is sunk into the south slope of the copper. The east end is gritstone with a tall narrow window behind oak fins, and the stone car barn with a curved copper roof sits on a gravel court to the right, with a wildflower bank and dry stone wall along the approach. Off brief: the drawings stack three 20 by 3.3 m glass panels over the guest wing, about 10 m deep in all; here the glass is a single row along the north edge. From above the plan reads as a rounded rectangle, where the long sides should pinch in by 1 m at the waist so it reads like a lens. The car barn's roof is a plain barrel rather than a small saddle.

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Aerial, roof open

Exterior, view 04. Attach the model screenshot, then paste the prompt.

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Aerial, roof open

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Exterior · view 04 of 13 · rendered with ChatGPT image generation.

Attach model-aerial-roof-open.jpg (shape reference). The first image here is the result.

Open a fresh ChatGPT chat for each view, so it does not borrow from the last image. Attach only the one reference image named, then paste the prompt and ask for landscape format. If a render drifts, send it back with a short edit: "Keep everything the same except ...".

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Turn the attached 3D model image into a photorealistic aerial drone photograph. Keep the exact shape, proportions, camera angle and position of every element from the attached image. Only change the materials, lighting and surroundings as described below.

Setting: high summer midday, bright sun, a few soft clouds casting shadows on the fields. Drone about 60 metres up to the south-east, looking down.

Shape rules (do not change these from the image): one continuous curved shell, almost square in plan, about 28 by 27 metres, the long sides pinching in slightly at the middle so it reads like a lens from above. The roof dips in the middle and lifts gently to each end. In the middle of the roof, a rectangular opening about 20 by 10 metres. The glass roof panels have slid north and sit stacked as three glass layers over the north side, so the opening is fully open to the sky.

Materials:
- Upper part of the shell: standing-seam copper weathered to warm brown with hints of green. Lower curved sides: vertical untreated larch, silver-honey. Base and end walls: coursed Derbyshire gritstone. South window bands in deep oak frames.
- Inside the opening, the internal garden: a stone flag floor, a few small trees (olive, fig, Japanese maple), a long narrow reflecting rill of water, a long wooden dining table with chairs, and a slim oak and dark steel bridge crossing the garden at first floor level. Around the garden, the inner walls of the two wings with large windows looking in.
- On the south side of the copper roof near the east end: a small sunken roof terrace with a timber deck and two chairs.
- The east end: gritstone with a tall narrow window behind oak fins.
- The car barn and gallery to the north-east: gritstone, small copper roof, oak doors to a pale gravel court.

Surroundings: a wildflower bank and dry stone wall along the north approach, a flagged path to the front door, mature oaks, green fields divided by dry stone walls, the land falling gently south to a wide view of Peak District hills.

Style: high-end architectural drone photography, natural colours, sharp detail. Avoid: changing the shape, glass dome, greenhouse look, stadium roof, white render, extra buildings, people, text.

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Aerial view from a drone to the south-east on a summer midday, with the roof open. The shell reads as a ring of copper over larch sides on a gritstone base, round an opening into the garden: stone flags, a long narrow rill, an olive, a fig and a red Japanese maple, a long table with chairs on the north side and a wide oak bridge crossing at first floor level. Along the north edge of the opening sits a row of glass panels. A small terrace with two chairs is sunk into the south slope of the copper. The east end is gritstone with a tall narrow window behind oak fins, and the stone car barn with a curved copper roof sits on a gravel court to the right, with a wildflower bank and dry stone wall along the approach. Off brief: the drawings stack three 20 by 3.3 m glass panels over the guest wing, about 10 m deep in all; here the glass is a single row along the north edge. From above the plan reads as a rounded rectangle, where the long sides should pinch in by 1 m at the waist so it reads like a lens. The car barn's roof is a plain barrel rather than a small saddle.
01 · Aerial view from a drone to the south-east on a summer midday
Screenshot of the 3D model from above to the south-east with the roof open: the copper shell round the garden opening, the three glass panels stacked over the north wing, the bridge, the trees, the sunk roof terrace on the south slope and the car barn. The shape reference for the aerial render.
02 · Screenshot of the 3D model from above to the south-east with the roof open: the copper shell round the garden opening