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Courtyard House

Explore a compact home through its rooms, materials, and light.

Courtyard House in roof-off cutaway view, with named rooms around the planted courtyard and section, daylight, and material controls.
Screenshot from OpenAI’s published showcase · View original source

The idea, and the build.

The architectural demo uses one coherent house model for room exploration, materials and daylight. Its recorded revision improves the supporting copy.

Where Astra came in.

Built the interactive house tour and refined the accompanying descriptions.

Our takeaway

Use one coherent model to connect different ways of exploring a place.

Follow the process.

The creator’s published walkthrough includes build steps and available prompts. Some prompts are reconstruction guides; the original source explains which records were retained.

Read the creator’s walkthrough