Written by Architectural Drawing is a line drawing showing plan and/or elevation views of the proposed building for the purpose of showing the overall appearance of the building.
Architectural Drawings normally include:
- A floor plan is the most fundamental architectural diagram, a view from above showing the arrangement of spaces in building in the same way as a map, but showing the arrangement at a particular level of a building.
- A site plan is a specific type of plan, showing the whole context of a building or group of buildings. A site plan shows property boundaries and means of access to the site, and nearby structures if they are relevant to the design.
- An elevation is a view of a building seen from one side, a flat representation of one façade. This is the most common view used to describe the external appearance of a building. Each elevation is labelled in relation to the compass direction it faces, e.g. the north elevation of a building is the side that most closely faces north.
- Detail drawings show a small part of the construction at a larger scale, to show how the component parts fit together. They are also used to show small surface details.
