Gemini Architecture Prompts: Renders, Sites, Plans (2026)

Photoreal architectural exterior render of a [four-storey residential
building], [charred timber cladding] with [anodised aluminium] window
reveals, three-quarter view showing two facades, verticals kept
parallel, no keystoning, flat overcast daylight, one mature tree in
the foreground, wide 3:2 frame.

Using the attached photo of my massing model, create a photoreal
exterior render. Keep the building geometry, proportions and roof
shape exactly as in the image. Add [board-formed concrete] walls and
[fritted glass] glazing, flat overcast light, eye-level camera, wide
3:2 frame. Do not change any other elements of the image.

Take the attached render and change only the lighting to blue hour:
deep blue sky, interior lights glowing warm through the glazing.
Keep the building, camera angle, materials and entourage exactly as
they are.

In the attached elevation, replace the facade cladding with
[standing-seam zinc] and the window frames with [weathering steel].
Keep the window layout, proportions and ground line unchanged. Flat
orthographic view, no perspective, soft even light.

The attached image is a hand-drawn plan of the living area. Create a
photoreal interior view from the point marked A, looking toward the
window wall, eye height 1.5 m, 24mm lens, soft daylight from the
windows, [oak floor] and [white plaster] walls. Keep the room
layout as drawn.

Flat orthographic front elevation of a [two-storey house], no
perspective, regular window rhythm, [glazed white brick] with a
[zinc] roof edge, thin outline drawing style on a neutral
background, wide 4:3 frame.

Recreate the attached view at night. Streetlights on, entrance
canopy lit, warm light from the upper-floor windows, dark blue
sky. Keep the building and camera position the same.

Same view as the attached render, but in light rain: wet paving
with soft reflections, overcast sky, one person with an umbrella
seen from behind for scale. Do not alter the building.

Here's a photo of the building site, taken from the street at 4pm.
Based on what you can see — slope direction, existing tree cover, and
the neighboring rooflines — list three site conditions I should design
around, and explain the reasoning for each in under 40 words.

I'm attaching two photos of the same lot: one from 9am and one from 4pm
in the same season. Compare the shadow patterns between them and tell
me where on the site full sun is most reliable through the working day.

This is a street-level photo of the block my project sits on. Looking
at the massing, material, and roofline of the three adjacent buildings,
describe the context language a fourth building on this block would
need to either match or deliberately depart from.

Here's a precedent image I'm referencing and a photo of my own site.
Looking at both, tell me which specific elements of the precedent —
proportion, material, roof form, threshold condition — would actually
translate to my site's conditions, and which wouldn't.

I'm attaching a photo of a building whose facade rhythm I like. Describe
the underlying proportioning logic you can see — bay width relative to
height, void-to-solid ratio, datum lines — in language I could hand to
a facade consultant.

Here are four images of buildings I'm drawn to for this brief. Looking
at all four together, identify the one or two design principles they
share, stated abstractly enough that they could apply to a different
material and climate.

This is my mood board for the project — six images collaged together.
Write a one-paragraph material and color palette description a
contractor could read and understand, naming the specific materials
you can identify in the images.

I'm attaching two photos of facade material samples we're deciding
between for the client. Compare them on warmth, texture, and how each
would read from 30 feet away, and flag anything that won't photograph
well for marketing.

Here's a close-up photo of a textured concrete panel. Describe its
tactile and visual qualities in the kind of language I'd use in a
specification narrative, not a marketing brochure.

This is a scan of my hand-drawn bubble diagram for the ground floor.
Describe the circulation logic and adjacency relationships you can see,
and note any adjacency that looks like it creates a dead-end or
bottleneck — as a discussion point, not a fix.

Here's a rough parti sketch I drew for the client meeting tomorrow.
Turn what you see into two sentences of plain-English design narrative
I can say out loud, without inventing dimensions or room counts that
aren't in the sketch.

I'm attaching a concept sketch and a site photo side by side. Looking at
both, does the sketch's orientation and massing look coherent with the
site conditions in the photo, or is there a conflict I should flag before
we develop this further?

Here are three render images from our competition board. Write the
design narrative paragraph that would sit beside them, describing the
spatial sequence and material story you can see across the three images,
in a confident but not overwritten tone.

I'm attaching our mood board and an early concept sketch together.
Combine what's in both images into a single one-page concept statement
a client with no architecture background could read in under a minute.

Here's a rendering we're about to present. Explain the design decision
behind the roof form shown, in the plain language I'd use with a client
who has already said they find angled rooflines confusing.

Here are two precedent photos from different countries and eras.
Looking at both, extract the one design principle they share that
isn't about style — something about how each handles light, threshold,
or scale — and name it in a sentence.

I'm attaching two photos of the same courtyard: one from spring and one
from winter. Write the landscape narrative paragraph for our submission
that accounts for how the space reads differently across both seasons.

Here's my elevation sketch and a precedent photo I'm referencing for
proportion. Looking at both together, write a short brief for the
facade consultant describing the proportion and material relationship
I'm going for, without stating exact dimensions that aren't in the sketch.