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Bio-Based Urban Infill House

An early housing concept for bio-based enclosure and future disassembly on a tight urban plot.

Timber infill house with straw-lime cassettes and cork rainscreen.

Exact prompt

Create a photorealistic three-storey zero-carbon infill house on a narrow temperate-city lot. Express a rational timber frame, straw-lime wall cassettes, cork rainscreen panels, a demountable steel stair, deep window boxes, and accessible service routes without turning the assembly into an exhibit. Use neutral spring daylight and frame a corrected 50mm whole-building view from across the street. Keep every visible circulation route, threshold, terrace, and room unoccupied so structure, envelope depth, and material transitions remain the sole subject. Keep fire separation, party-wall junctions, moisture protection, guards, drainage, and component dimensions plausible. No eco badges, greenwashed facade planting, named designers, luxury staging, exposed technology theater, or impossible slenderness.

Facets

Program: Residential
Region: Global
Scale: Building
Lighting: Afternoon
Weather: Clear
Focus: Material
People: None

Prompt anatomy

Subject: Three-storey bio-based infill house on a narrow urban lot.
Style: Legible repairable assembly without environmental symbolism.
Materials: Timber, straw-lime, cork, steel, glass, and mineral flashings.
Context: An ordinary temperate street between masonry party walls.
Light: Neutral spring daylight.
Camera: Corrected 50mm whole-building view.
Constraints: Visible circulation, thresholds, terraces, and rooms remain unoccupied; credible fire separation, moisture control, joints, drainage, and no greenwashing.

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