What is an architectural plan?

What is an architetural plan?

Creating a house design requires planning and a good process. There are many things to consider while designing your home. The following article will tell you about the types of plans used in construction and their importance.

Design is perhaps the most important part of creating a home. Also being a remarkably complex part of its own right, it is extremely critical that the building designer or architect has the capacity to express through their drawings clearly in a way that the builder exactly knows what needs to be built or what’s required.

What types of diagram’s are used?

The types of diagrams that the architect or building designer could make depending on the type of house that is being built. Here are some of the types of plans that you will possibly see, and a description of what they represent:

Site plans – these map out the building site, includes the slopes and gradients, in addition to things such as trees and rocks and the surrounding area across the site. Site plans are commonly provided in two stages, including a ‘before’ site plan that shows the site as it is, and an ‘after’ plan that shows the complete located area of the suggested construction.

Floor plans – Floor plans are a detailed top-view of the layout of the home. They give an excellent idea about where everything will go including all the information about the types of materials and products which are going to be used.

Elevations – Elevations are diagrams of your home showing how it’s going to look from a single side. Interior elevations could also be used to provide a much better concept of how a specific area of the interior might look like.

Wall sections – These diagrams are a cross-cut section of a given area of the house, designed to provide a detailed glance at the way the house is built. Within these diagrams, you will probably observe how framework, wall surfaces, sheathing, foundations, roofs, and several other elements are arranged.

Framing plans – The framing of the house should be appropriately built to ensure that it’s structurally sound. These plans detail the way in which house frames should be built.
Shadow diagrams – These diagrams are widely used to show what types of shadows the proposed building will cast, both on your own property and the surrounding area. Shadow diagrams usually depict the shadow at its ‘extremes’ (e.g. winter solstice).

Common features on house plans and diagrams ?

To ensure they are more easily understood, diagrams and plans are (in theory) adhere to certain conventions in terms of the way things are laid out and drawn. House plans, including floor plans, framing plans, site plans, elevations and so on ought to be drawn in order that they stick to the standards. These standards sets out what information must be provided and how various drawings are abbreviated and annotated. While different architects and building designers might use creative license in their designs and express various points slightly differently according to the software they normally use, it is important that what’s being shown is actually represented in a way that leaves no space for misinterpretation. Here are some of the common elements you will probably see in most house plans and diagrams:

Title block – the title block explains:
• what the drawing is (for example. site plan, floor plan)
• what revision of this drawing you’re looking at
• who drafted it
• Your details
• The architect or building designer’s details
• The address or located area of the site
• The date

Scale – unless they’re basic sketches, formal plans and diagrams should always be drawn properly to scale. Orientation – plans and diagrams must show which direction north is in the diagram you are looking at. Where possible, the drawings for a given project should utilize the same orientation with regard to consistency and clarity.

Callouts – These small symbols indicate where further detail is provided in a different diagram.

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