Understanding the layout of a building through its sections is an integral part of architectural design. This article comprehensively explains the nuances of reading and interpreting the sections of a building from architectural drawings.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes the importance of tracking information through a set of drawings, demonstrating how to navigate between various sections of a building within the drawings.
- It details the process of interpreting images in the drawings, such as understanding the direction of the view, recognizing the symbols and keynotes, and identifying details like the garage, basement, staircase, and main bedroom.
- The article also provides insights on how to interpret different perspectives in the drawings, such as longitudinal sections and elevations. It shows how different slices of the building provide different views and information.
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47—Secciones del Edificio—Parte 2 One of the beauties of building documents is to successfully track information through a set of drawings. And so, again, we have the sections of the building, so we have the section indicators of the building. If I want to see this section of the building, I go to that page.
And you can see that this says image 1, so image 1 is a slice that goes through the garage and the staircase. That same slice goes through the main bedroom. If I go to the image itself, you can see that here are the images we just talked about.
Here is the garage, here is the basement, here is the staircase, here is the main bathroom. So, this slice of the building is the same slice that is referred to here. You can also see, looking at the image, that it is showing a big hat looking to the right.
So, what this tells me is that when I go to image 1 on that page, the section building is cut here. But it is looking to the right. So, again, there is the slice and you can see that this is exactly what I am doing.
So, again, references to other information. I have reference to other details. I have keynotes that tell me what is happening.
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I have my datums, I have some symbols that are happening down here, again, with their notes that tell me more information. I'm going to move on to the next page of the building section and something similar. This is the longitudinal section.
This is image 1 in A4.2, image 2 in A4.2. If I go back, you can see image 1 in A4.2 is a cut here, looking up. Image 2 is a cut down here looking up. So, again, I'm going to see the open area to the right of the bedroom, and here is the bedroom looking there.
If I go back to that page, you will see, here is the main bedroom, and here is that open space through which we just saw. Again, normally the keynotes for the floor plans are all the same, normally. Normally all the keynotes for all the floor plans are the same.
It makes it a little easier for people in the field to know if they are in a section. If you are looking at symbol 10, that symbol 10 transmits the same type of information but different offices. Do it differently.
If you look at this image down here, you can see that we are cutting through the building. I'm also showing the elevation of the building in the shaded background backwards. So I'm going to slide back.
And once again, you can see here is the cut, here is the building and the distance. Again, the cut is looking up, so this part of the building is not in the section. But what I'm showing in the section of the building itself are the elevations in the distance.
So this is a quick and dirty overview of the sections of the building itself. If I could spend some time with these drawings and then we will continue with the elevations in the following videos.
