Explore the intricate process of examining architectural blueprints, with a focus on understanding specific components like standard stud walls, French doors, and detailed callouts. Gain insight into the practical application of these blueprints, such as how they inform the construction of a deck area within a residential building.
Key Insights
- The architectural blueprints detailed in the article include standard stud walls and French doors, presenting a virtual tour of the deck area in a building.
- Specific symbols on the blueprint, like 2D72 and 3D72, refer to detailed images or sections within the blueprint, offering a more in-depth view of certain areas such as the deck or parapet.
- The blueprint effectively communicates critical information to the contractor, such as the 24-foot 8-inch radius of a circular deck, by anchoring measurements to existing structures in the building.
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Now, what I'd like to do is to look out here on the deck. So, I'm going to zoom in to the deck area. You can see that I have over here my standard stud walls.
So, you can see they're standard studs. They have the poche in them. You can see that I have French doors that are opening onto the deck.
You can see over here that I have two symbols. One is saying 2D72, another 3D72. What that's saying is go to sheet D72, look at image two or image three, and you can see the slice through the deck at this area.
So, if you notice, there is a little heavy line at the end of the detail callout. So, we have building sections. We also have detail callouts, and these are enlarged areas of specific components in the building.
So, you can see that on page D72, I have image two, image three, and image four. So, these are, again, detail cuts that are going through the parapet and the deck railing on the side of the building, and they're saying go look on that page at these images to learn more. Something else we have going on is you can see that I have a dashed line that's down here.
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This is showing the line of the garage area below, and I have another line out here, which is showing the line of the roof above. One thing I have happening, too, is you can see that my deck is circular. You can see that I'm showing that the deck has a radius of 24 feet, 8 inches measured from this location in the living room.
So, what we've done to tell the contractor is we've indicated the radius of the deck. We've shown where the center of the deck measurement is, and we have anchored those dimensions to certain locations on framing that's already existing in the building. So, we have the living room.
We have the kitchen. We have the deck. I have a continued deck that's over here, and, again, in this area, I'm once again showing references to other details that are elsewhere in the set.
