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In the garden with the roof open, from the fire room at the west end, looking east down its length. In the foreground a low fire burns in a stone hearth. A long stone-edged rill runs away down the middle of pale stone flags, with an old olive on the left, a red Japanese maple on the right and ferns and grasses in beds. On the left, a long oak table with chairs sits outside tall oak-framed glazing into a pale kitchen with a pendant light; on the right, glazing into a darker room with a sofa and lamps. A slim oak bridge crosses at first floor level. At the far end, the inside of the gritstone east gable with a tall narrow window over an oak door, under blue sky. Off brief: both wings carry straight timber eaves and soffits, where the drawings have the curved shell lined in larch with glulam ribs sweeping over the garden. The bridge reads as a solid timber beam with no glass balustrade, and the garden store at the east end has become a door under the window.

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In the garden, roof open

Garden, view 05. Attach the model screenshot, then paste the prompt.

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In the garden, roof open

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Garden · view 05 of 13 · rendered with ChatGPT image generation.

Attach model-garden.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 architectural photograph of an internal garden. Keep the exact layout, camera position, camera angle and the position of every element from the attached image. Only change the materials, lighting and planting as described below.

Setting: high summer late afternoon. The glass roof above the garden is fully slid open, so the sky is visible overhead and warm sun slants in across the garden. Camera at eye height in the fire room at the west end, looking east down the length of the garden, 24mm lens.

The space: a garden about 20 metres long and 10 to 12 metres wide, enclosed on both long sides by the two wings of the house and open to the sky. Above the wings, the underside of the curved shell is lined in warm larch, with exposed curved glulam ribs, framing the opening.

Materials and contents:
- Floor: large sawn Yorkstone flags with fine joints.
- Down the centre: a long narrow reflecting rill of still water edged in stone.
- Trees in beds set flush with the flags: an old gnarled olive, a fig, a Japanese maple, with ferns and soft grasses beneath.
- On the left (north) side, near the kitchen glazing: a long oak dining table with twelve chairs.
- Crossing the garden at first floor level: a slim bridge with oak treads, a thin dark steel edge and clear glass balustrades.
- Left wing: tall oak-framed glazing into light birch-lined rooms (kitchen and living). Right wing: tall oak-framed glazing into darker walnut-lined rooms (lounge and office).
- Far end: the inside face of the east gable in coursed gritstone, with a tall narrow window, and a small oak-boarded garden store.
- Foreground: the edge of a low open stone hearth with a small fire burning.

Style: calm, high-end architectural photography, natural colours, soft sun and shade, crisp detail. Avoid: greenhouse, conservatory, glass dome, shopping-mall atrium, tropical jungle, people, text.

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In the garden with the roof open, from the fire room at the west end, looking east down its length. In the foreground a low fire burns in a stone hearth. A long stone-edged rill runs away down the middle of pale stone flags, with an old olive on the left, a red Japanese maple on the right and ferns and grasses in beds. On the left, a long oak table with chairs sits outside tall oak-framed glazing into a pale kitchen with a pendant light; on the right, glazing into a darker room with a sofa and lamps. A slim oak bridge crosses at first floor level. At the far end, the inside of the gritstone east gable with a tall narrow window over an oak door, under blue sky. Off brief: both wings carry straight timber eaves and soffits, where the drawings have the curved shell lined in larch with glulam ribs sweeping over the garden. The bridge reads as a solid timber beam with no glass balustrade, and the garden store at the east end has become a door under the window.
01 · In the garden with the roof open
Screenshot of the 3D model from the fire room looking east down the garden: the rill, the round trees, the bridge at first floor level, the timber garden store and the east gable at the far end, between the glazed inner walls of the two wings. The shape reference for the garden render.
02 · Screenshot of the 3D model from the fire room looking east down the garden: the rill