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What this means is for every 12" of rise there is 12" of run. On this elevation, the roof pitch is 12/12. This symbol displays two numbers, a rise and a run. The roof pitch of a house tells the builder how steep the roof is.
#House plan drawing windows#
Additional windows not found in our opening schedules (like dormer windows) are often called out in our elevations. Based on the intended style of the home, we show the openings with recommended trim, grills (mullions) and other window treatment. Openings are drawn on the elevations corresponding to window sizes called out in schedules on the floor plans. Using a standard scale helps builders in the field scale the drawings and come up with an accurate measurement based on the elevations (and most other drawings). 1" on paper is 4', 2" is 8' in the built world, etc. What this means is that for every 1/4" on the paper, we are representing 1'-0" of the home in reality. We typically use 1/4"=1'-0" scale for our elevations. Scale tells us how the drawing on paper compares with the real thing built in the real world. Since we don't know how you'll place your home in the ground, we make simplify it by referring to how the plan is oriented on paper, like the diagram showing how the elevations correspond to the floor plans near the beginning of this post. Some architects and drafters use compass directions, specifically referring to a face of the home facing a particular direction on a site. The title tells us which face of the house the drawing represents. Let's look at a finished elevation drawing with all the notes, symbols, and lineweight applied. Conveying the house like this allows the drawing to be accurately scaled and more simply understood.Įlevations communicate the following information about a home: Vertical lines are straight up and down, horizontal lines are straight left and right. Notice, none of the lines are skewed as you might view the house in real life. On this plane, we will project the lines from the front elevation of the house.Īlone, the elevation drawing will look like this. Using the same idea as before, on the floor plan drawing, I've drawn arrows to show the main faces of the house that will be projected onto our elevation drawings.įocusing on the front elevation, imagine a plane that is parallel to the front walls of the house - or if you are like me and need to see something to understand it, take a look below.
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We'll use our recently design Boston house plan. I'll explain that more clearly below.Īs an example, let's look at a house in 3D. Basically, this means that lines are straight up and down and side to side on paper. If the floor plans are like looking down at a house without a roof, the elevation is like looking at it from the side. The drawing is distorted - while you and I would look from the street at a house and see depth and perspective, an elevation drawing is compressed into a single plane. In simpler terms, an elevation is a drawing which shows any particular side of a house. "An elevation is an orthographic projection of an object or construction on a vertical picture plan parallel to one of its principal faces." - Francis D.K. Here's how I learned it in Architecture school:
#House plan drawing series#
In this, our second post in our series "How to read house plans", we're breaking down elevation drawings!
#House plan drawing how to#
(If you are new to all this, try our helpful primer How to read house plans | The Construction Set) Understanding blueprints - don't people go to school for that sort of thing? We're breaking down a typical construction set of house plans to help you navigate your way through the complex web of lines, symbols and terminology of plans.