Discover how architectural drawings work with a focus on project specifics, a construction's standard details, and the importance of presenting information in a way that minimizes water intrusion in buildings. Learn about different types of elements in architecture, such as the cable rail and elevator, and how the scale and specific details of these elements are crucial for their proper representation in construction drawings.
Key Insights
- The architectural drawings contain standard details such as windows, head doors, jambs, and sill conditions that are frequently used in construction, as well as project-specific images.
- Different elements like the cable rail and the elevator are represented at various scales in the drawings, and specific information about these elements, such as the manufacturer's cut sheets for the elevator, are provided separately.
- Construction drawings also focus on the assembly of overlapping materials, aiming to minimize water intrusion, indicating the importance of considering environmental effects in architectural design.
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If I now go to page D7.2, you are going to see many more project specifics. If I go back to D7.1, again, this came out of one of my standard libraries, as did these window, head door, and jamb, and sill conditions because these are standard details that are frequently used on this type of construction, whereas these are images that are more project specific. If you remember way back when, we were talking about the railing in the foyer and the balconies and everything that was going on there.
So here is the cable rail detail. You can see it's detail number three on sheet D7.2. I have the text that, again, is pointing to what I want to have seen. This is a section drawing where I'm cutting through the rail itself.
This is an elevation drawing looking at the rail on the side. Here's the elevator, and again, with the elevator, you can see that we are at a larger scale. This is a quarter inch equals a foot.
If you remember, our building elevations were at 3 16ths of an inch equals a foot, as were our building sections. So what I'm able to do here is to enlarge the information because I'm just trying to show schematically what's going on with the elevator. And you can see that I'm calling out here elevator cab per manufacturer.
So what's happening is that to submit this document to the building department, I did not necessarily need to call out the specific elevator manufacturer in this drawing. Rather, when I'm getting my building permit, I will also include calculations, I will include manufacturer's cut sheets, and it's in those manufacturer's cut sheets that I would provide the specific information on the elevator. I have page D7.3. Again, this information comes out of my more common library where I'm telling more specific information.
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I'm trying to make sure that when we're having overlapping materials, that I'm saying make sure that you assemble this information in a way to minimize water intrusion because one thing that's very, very important is to make sure that you are minimizing the ability of water to get into your dwelling unit. So again, we have the three detail pages, D7.3, D7.2, D7.1. They are drawn independently. The files are typically referenced into the drawing, and here I am talking CAD again, and I apologize about that.
But again, we typically have a library of symbols and a library of details, a library of common details, a library of project type details, and we develop a library of project-specific details that are relevant to the project at hand. We reference the details in our plans, elevations, and sections, and we present them at the appropriate scale to best explain the construction to the contractor. What we're gonna come back with in a second is to start dealing with our door and window schedules.
So I hope you're enjoying this, having a lot of fun. I know that I am.
