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The house from the south-east on a summer evening, from a wildflower meadow below it, with a low sun from the west and rolling green hills and oaks behind. One broad, low curved shell: vertical larch boards weathered honey-silver run up from a coursed gritstone base and over the bend into a standing-seam copper crown, with a band of glass set into the crown over the middle. A long ground floor window band and a shorter upper band, both in deep oak frames, run along the south side above a gritstone plinth, with a lit opening and a small terrace with sofas at its left-hand corner and copper rain chains dropping into stone troughs. The east end is an arch of coursed gritstone with one tall lit window in oak frames. To the right a small stone car barn with a curved copper roof and a band of glass under it is joined to the house by a short glazed link. Off brief: the drawings give the east end one window 2 m wide and 8 m tall behind close-set oak fins; here it is a wider window in plain oak frames with no fins. The car barn's roof is a plain barrel, where the drawings give it the house's saddle in miniature, dipping in the middle and rising to each end, and the link to it is glazed rather than gritstone with narrow oak-framed windows. The glass over the garden reads as a narrow strip, where the drawings have three panels covering a 20 by 10 m opening.

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South-east, summer evening

Exterior, view 01. Attach the model screenshot, then paste the prompt.

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South-east, summer evening

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Exterior · view 01 of 13 · rendered with ChatGPT image generation.

Attach model-south-east.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. 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: a gentle south-facing slope in the English Peak District, high summer evening, warm low sun from the west, long soft shadows, clear sky with a few light clouds. The camera is in a wildflower meadow to the south-east, at eye height, 35mm lens.

Shape rules (do not change these from the image): the house is one continuous curved shell, almost square in plan, about 28 metres long and 27 metres deep, broad and low. The sides rise almost vertically from a stone base and bend smoothly into the roof in one unbroken curve, with no eaves, no gutters and no corner between wall and roof. The roof dips gently in the middle and lifts towards each end, with only a slight overhang at the ends. The end walls are wide, low arches of stone, not towers.

Materials:
- The curved sides: vertical untreated larch boards weathered to soft silver-honey, running up and over the bend.
- The upper part of the shell: standing-seam copper weathered to warm brown with first hints of green.
- The base: dark coursed Derbyshire gritstone. On the south side a stone plinth about 3.3 metres high where the land falls away, with one deep-set opening at the far left corner.
- Windows: the long ground floor band and the shorter upper band in deep chunky oak frames with oak mullions every 1.5 metres, on a knee-high gritstone sill.
- The east end: coursed gritstone with one tall narrow window behind close-set oak fins.
- The car barn behind on the right: gritstone, a small copper roof with a gentle dip and rise, joined to the house by a short low stone gallery.
- A thin dark bronze edge along the ends of the shell.
- Copper rain chains hanging into stone troughs at the foot of the plinth.
- The glass roof in the middle of the shell: clear glass with slim dark frames.

Surroundings: replace the plain ground with a wildflower hay meadow (ox-eye daisies, knapweed, scabious, buttercups), low dry stone walls, a few mature oak trees, and rolling green Peak District hills with stone-walled fields in the distance.

Style: high-end architectural photography, natural colours, crisp detail, realistic weathering and texture. Avoid: changing the shape, long narrow building, upright walls with a separate roof on top, roof curling at the ends, stone towers, eaves, gutters, barn conversion look, stadium, white render, people, text.

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The house from the south-east on a summer evening, from a wildflower meadow below it, with a low sun from the west and rolling green hills and oaks behind. One broad, low curved shell: vertical larch boards weathered honey-silver run up from a coursed gritstone base and over the bend into a standing-seam copper crown, with a band of glass set into the crown over the middle. A long ground floor window band and a shorter upper band, both in deep oak frames, run along the south side above a gritstone plinth, with a lit opening and a small terrace with sofas at its left-hand corner and copper rain chains dropping into stone troughs. The east end is an arch of coursed gritstone with one tall lit window in oak frames. To the right a small stone car barn with a curved copper roof and a band of glass under it is joined to the house by a short glazed link. Off brief: the drawings give the east end one window 2 m wide and 8 m tall behind close-set oak fins; here it is a wider window in plain oak frames with no fins. The car barn's roof is a plain barrel, where the drawings give it the house's saddle in miniature, dipping in the middle and rising to each end, and the link to it is glazed rather than gritstone with narrow oak-framed windows. The glass over the garden reads as a narrow strip, where the drawings have three panels covering a 20 by 10 m opening.
01 · The house from the south-east on a summer evening
Screenshot of the 3D model from the south-east, untextured, on a pale ground. The curved shell in flat larch and copper colours, the two blue window bands on the south side, the gritstone plinth, the east gable with its window, and the car barn to the right. The shape reference for the south-east, autumn and winter renders.
02 · Screenshot of the 3D model from the south-east