Get an in-depth virtual tour of a house's architectural design and layout, with detailed explanations of dimensions and features such as the garage doors, foyer, living spaces and bedrooms. Dive into the specifics of symbols and keynotes on the architectural plans, gaining an understanding of how they communicate essential information about the interior and exterior elements of the house.
Key Insights
- The architectural plan provides a detailed guide through the house, describing features such as double doors in the foyer, a living rooms, dining areas, bedrooms and bathrooms with specified closet spaces and unique elements such as pocket doors and Jack and Jill bathrooms.
- A close examination of the plan reveals the purpose of keynotes and symbols, such as keynote 34 referring to the toilet paper holder or the symbol indicating the interior elevation. These notations are crucial for understanding specific elements and features within the design.
- The plan uses a system of references to navigate between different sheets of the blueprint. For instance, the left side of a symbol typically represents the initial occurrence of that symbol, and readers are directed to other sheets to view further details, such as interior elevations.
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Now, let me just take you on a little tour of the house for a minute. Here's the garage. You can see that the garage has two garage doors, and like I was just mentioning a few minutes ago, the dimensioning is showing from outside framing face to center line of the garage door.
Come out of the garage door. When we get to our hardscape drawing, you will see the walk and the porch that will be here at the front. I'm going to zoom in a little bit closer.
We have a foyer. Now, if you look at this door, you can see that we have a double door, but you can see how one door is drawn in solidly. Another one is in a dashed line type.
So what we're saying is that this is the dominant door. It is a pair of doors. It is a double set of doors.
This door on the right is normally locked, but it can be opened to the right. So I have a foyer. Go through the foyer.
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We have a living room. In this area, I have the dining area here. I'm just going to walk this way a bit.
I have the breakfast area or informal dining here. Family room. There's a fireplace.
Continue back toward the breakfast or informal dining area. I have a kitchen over here. Come back out and head toward the dining room.
I have my laundry area. Leave the laundry area. I have the FAU, which is the Forced Air Unit, or the furnace.
That's in a closet there. I'm walking back down the hallway. I have a little bathroom here.
Come back into the hallway. I have a bulk storage area. Come back in the hallway.
Go down the hall. I have a Bedroom Number Four. Bedroom Number Four has a closet.
Go back into the hallway. Come to the left. A bedroom that has a closet here.
Here's the bedroom. This is a Jack and Jill bathroom in this area. You can see that I have pocket doors, and we'll be zooming in on this later on.
Come back. There's a toilet and the tub. Come back to the little vanity area.
Another Jack and Jill bathroom going into Bedroom Number Two. I'm just going to pan up. Go back out the door.
I have my attic access right here. You can see keynote number 22. Come in the hallway.
I have the Master Bedroom. Master Bath and a closet in the Master Bath. Now, let's zoom in on the Master Bedroom since we're here.
Again, what you can see looking at the information is that in the bathroom, I have the door. The door has a number in it. This is the door symbol.
You can see a keynote over here, so you can see all the information is keynoted. If you look in this area right in through here, you can see a recess in the wall. This is a keynote right here that's calling this out as a recessed mirror, and we're keeping that area not line worked so that you can tell that there's a recessed mirror in there.
Just over here, you can see that I have keynote 34, which is calling out the toilet paper holder, and so on and so forth. You can see that I have the bathroom door that's going between the tub area and the sink area. You can see that I have towel bars on the wall here, towel bars on the wall here.
I have my keynote 32, which in the keynote list will be telling me that those are towel bars. This symbol right here is going to be the interior elevation symbol. What this is telling me, and let me back off a bit, I am on sheet number A1.0, so my sheet number is A1.0. When I zoom in on this symbol, you can see that I have my typical rectangle, I have my circle, my line that goes through it, the number two, and then image A. What this is telling me is that go to sheet A1.3 to see the interior elevation.
Look at image two, elevation A on sheet A1.3. This number on the left, A1.0, is my current page. When we work with symbols like this, on the left-hand side is typically the initial occurrence of that symbol. We're seeing this interior elevation for the first time on sheet A1.0. This is where we are.
If we want to go see the interior elevation, we have to go to page A1.3, look at image two, elevation A. So that's what's going on there.