Exterior AI: 60+ Architectural Styles From a Single Sketch

Every building has more than one possible identity. The same footprint and massing can read as a warm Scandinavian retreat, a stark Brutalist statement, or a glass-heavy modernist box — and until recently, exploring all three meant three separate modeling passes.

Exterior AI collapses that into a single sketch upload and a style prompt.

How it works

Upload a sketch, a rough massing model screenshot, or even a photo of an existing building you want to reimagine. Choose a render style from over 60 options — Scandinavian, Japandi, Brutalist, Mediterranean, Industrial, Futuristic, and more — along with a camera angle and lighting mood, and Exterior AI generates a photoreal exterior render that respects your original structure.

Because the underlying geometry is preserved, you can run the same sketch through multiple styles back-to-back and compare them side by side — something that would take a 3D artist days to produce manually.

A typical workflow

1. Upload your sketch or massing export.
2. Pick 3–4 styles you want to explore for this project.
3. Generate a render in each style (each render costs 1 credit).
4. Share the shortlist with your client or team, then refine the winning direction with prompt tweaks — different materials, a different time of day, a different camera angle.
5. Upscale the final selection with Render Enhancer for print-quality output.

Why firms use it this way

Style exploration used to be the most time-consuming — and most subjective — part of early design. Clients often can't picture "Scandinavian modern" from a description, but they know it immediately when they see it. Generating several real options in minutes turns a debate about adjectives into a decision between images.

Try Exterior AI on your own building — your first render is free.