Discover how to interpret complex building plans including recognizing and understanding symbols, navigating sections, and deciphering key notes. This article elucidates the process of navigating through a building's 2nd level floor plan, understanding various symbols and their meanings, and the step-by-step movement through different sections.
Key Insights
- The information contained within symbols on a floor plan indicate where to go and what section of the building is being discussed. For instance, an enlarged plan symbol can direct you to a detailed view of a particular section.
- Interior elevations can be found on specific sheets and are indicated by unique symbols. These interior elevations provide detailed views of specific walls or sections, which can be found on corresponding image numbers on the designated sheet.
- Key notes, dimensions, and sections are integral components of a building plan. Discontinuous lines, for example, can represent structural elements like a heavy wooden frame on top of a ceiling. Different textures or patterns can indicate different construction materials.
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43—Planos de Piso—Nivel 2—Parte 2 So again, we have our building, and we have our references here for the different sections of our building. The information contained within the symbol here tells us where to go to find the information that is included in the section of the building that is cut here.
Again, we have the garage down here. We enter through the clay room, go up the stairs, come over, and then we are on the first floor. So, when I'm on the first floor, again, what has happened is that I go up these stairs and I’m in the pantry.
Here, there is a small foyer. I have the elevator shaft. Again, this information here says that if you want to see the enlarged plan, go to Symbol 1 on page 7.2. What you will notice here, between the living room and the kitchen, is this symbol.
This symbol is a call for interior elevations. What it is saying—and we will see later—is that I would look at Sheet A5.3 to see the different interior elevations. The interior elevations will be labeled on Sheet A5.3 as Interior Elevations 2,3, up here 4, and down here 6. So, what would happen is that when I'm on Sheet A5.3, if I want to see the interior elevation of this wall here,
I would look on Sheet A5.3 in Image 2. If I wanted to see the interior elevation looking from here down to this wall that I have highlighted, I would look at Image 3 on Sheet A5.3. If I wanted to see the interior elevation that would be looking from down here up to this area in blue, I would look at Sheet A5.3 in Image 4. And again, if I wanted to go ahead and look at the interior elevation looking this way,
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I would go to Sheet A5.3 and look at Image 6. You can see that we have many keynotes in the drawing. Again, the keynotes are all referenced here to the right in this correct area. We have the keynotes, we have the dimensions, and we have the sections of the building.
Now, one thing you will also notice is that in the music room, we are showing dashed lines up here. These dashed lines show that we have a heavy wooden frame that goes on top of the ceiling. And then, if I look here in the small gardening area,
You can see that I have a different wall niche on the floors, and this is simply saying that I have a different material.
