This guidebook is continuously updated with new lessons, workflows, and case studies. The structure may expand over time as AI tools evolve and design practices adapt.
Preface
Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a futuristic concept—it has already entered the core of architectural and design practice. Tools like Nano Banana and ChatGPT are reshaping how architects, landscape designers, urbanists, and interior designers visualize, test, and communicate ideas.
This guide is created as a hands-on prompt manual—a step-by-step companion to help designers quickly move from sketches to images, plans to 3D models, models to renderings, and moodboards to full design outputs.
Each section is structured around practical workflows:
Prompts Guide introduces the fundamentals of image generation and rendering prompts.
2D to 3D and 3D to 2D cover transformations between design representations.
Moodboard explores material palettes and concept visuals.
Advanced Practice modules dive into specialized workflows for landscape and urban design applications.
Table of Contents
How to Use
Nano Banana (free version)
ChatGPT
Gemini 3
Preface
Prompts Guide
Sketch to Image
Model to Rendering
Photo to Rendering
Retexture
Prompt to Diagram
2D to 3D
From Plan to Bird’s-eye and Perspective
Photo to 3D Building Model
Photo to Model on Desk
Photo/Plan to Isometric Diagram
Section to 3D
3D to 2D
Photo to Elevation
Front and Side View
Moodboard
Image to Material Moodboard
Moodboard to Image
Advanced Practice for Landscape Design
Streetscape
Planting
Plan to Perspective
Advanced Practice for Urban Design
Trace Google Aerial Photo
Contour Map to 3D
New Chapter-Layout & Technical Drawing
Presentation Board
Rendering to Presentation Board
Landscape Design Board
This book is not just a technical manual—it’s a creative toolkit. By mastering these prompts, you’ll be able to integrate AI seamlessly into your design process, speeding up production while opening new creative directions.
Whether you’re a student experimenting with design ideas, or a professional looking to enhance workflows, this guide will give you the methods and confidence to work at the intersection of AI and design innovation.
Exactly what I was looking for, very helpful. The structure is great, and it's impressive to see new prompts constantly updating. (I’m not sure if I can upload images here—if now allowed, please kindly delete my comment!). Lovely content. Keep going!
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Nan Chen
too expensive. the prompts are not applicable to other cases
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Anonymous
Great prompts! It would have been good if there was a downloadable pdf as a reference.
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Kalasoka
ok
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Cynthia Lee
Thank you for putting this content together. It’s been extremely helpful for my studio. It saves my team so much time communicating with rendering firms, and now we can produce more high-quality renderings in-house, quickly and efficiently.
