Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming how architects, landscape designers, and urban planners work. While many designers know tools like Midjourney or DALL·E, a rising star is making waves: Nano Banana, a free AI design tool tailored for architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and interior design.

Nano Banana stands out because it’s free, accurate, and versatile — perfect for students, educators, and professionals looking for AI rendering tools without heavy software or licensing fees. From sketch to image to photo to 3D building models, Nano Banana covers a wide range of workflows for design visualization.

Core Applications of Nano Banana

1. Sketch to Image

Turn hand sketches into professional AI architectural renderings. This workflow helps architects and students test early ideas visually.

2. Model to Rendering

Upload a 3D model and let the AI generate photorealistic AI renderings for architects with materials, lighting, and shadows.

3. Photo to Rendering

Enhance construction site photos or real building shots into polished AI visualizations for presentations.

4. Retexture with AI

Swap façade finishes, paving, or interior surfaces instantly. Perfect for exploring AI material generation and AI retexture façade tools.

5. Prompt to Diagram

Generate clean architectural diagrams — axonometrics, exploded views, or AI isometric diagrams — directly from text prompts.

6. 2D to 3D Conversion

Transform CAD drawings or floorplans into volumetric AI 3D building models, saving time on massing and conceptual studies.

7. Plan to Bird’s-Eye & Perspective

Convert 2D site plans into AI plan to perspective renderings or aerial bird’s-eye visuals. Great for urban design AI prompts.

8. Photo to 3D Building Model

Create quick digital AI building models from photos, useful for contextual site analysis.

9. Photo to Model on Desk

Generate miniaturized models as if placed on a desk — perfect for AI architectural visualization presentations.

10. Photo/Plan to Isometric Diagram

Turn floorplans into isometric architectural diagrams with stylized, professional outputs.

11. Section to 3D

Convert a 2D section drawing into a 3D cutaway model with interiors and structural details.

12. 3D to 2D

Simplify complex 3D models into 2D elevation drawings or clean architectural graphics.

13. Photo to Elevation

Extract façade designs from real photos into clean AI architectural elevations.

14. Front and Side View

Automatically generate multiple orthographic views — front, back, and side — from one perspective image.

Moodboards & Materials

15. Moodboard Creation

Build AI moodboards for interior design by combining furniture, colors, and materials from text prompts or reference images.

16. Image to Material Moodboard

Extract and display textures, colors, and finishes from any photo into a material board for architects.

17. Moodboard to Image

Apply curated AI interior design moodboards back into a room rendering to visualize new styles instantly.

Advanced Practice for Landscape Design

Streetscape Rendering with AI: Test urban planting layouts, furniture, and paving in context.
AI Planting Design Tool: Apply species palettes to gardens, plazas, or streets.
Landscape Plan to Perspective: Turn a flat site plan into immersive AI-generated landscape perspectives.

Advanced Practice for Urban Design

Trace Google Aerial Photos with AI: Stylize aerial images into urban design diagrams.
Contour Map to 3D Terrain: Transform topographic contour drawings into realistic AI terrain models.

Why Designers Love Nano Banana

Free AI design tool — no subscription barrier.
Fast and accurate — from sketch to rendering AI workflows.
Cross-disciplinary — architecture, interiors, landscape, and urban planning.
Great for education — helps students and studios communicate ideas without expensive rendering software.

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