You ll need to get familiar with floor plan symbols if you re looking at floor plans a floor plan is a picture of a level of a home sliced horizontally about 4ft from the ground and looking down from above.
Architectural roof plan symbols.
Every office has their own standard but most symbols should be similar to those shown on this page.
Door window floor plan symbols more.
These plans contain important details but we will cover those details in a future blog post.
Electrical plan symbols power every engineering office uses their own set of symbols.
The symbols below are used in architectural floor plans.
Floor plans site plans elevations and other architectural diagrams are generally pretty self explanatory but the devil s often in the details.
Types of roof membranes for flat or low slope roofs.
Graphic symbols used in architectural plans and drawings.
Architecture symbols concept architecture architecture details interior architecture drawing architecture student cinema architecture windows architecture architecture diagrams interior design sketches.
Refer to the symbol sheet for special symbols used in a particular set.
Ceiling roof framing finish schedule paint colors for each wall flooring type and color ceiling height type and color door window schedule and many more.
Jun 5 2013 common architectural symbols for materials.
Large scale small glass block scale glass glass block or plaster lath and same as elevation view wood stud lath and plaster metal lath and plaster solid plaster members rough members finished display remodeling wood stud siding panel cut stone rubble or concrete cast stone cut stone rubble cut stone cut stone rubble cast stone concrete or same as plan views structural lightweight same as plan views firebrick common or face common face etc.
The first two letters the discipline designators identify the construction discipline that the sheet covers architectural sheets plumbing sheets structural sheets etc.
There are many additional plans that supplement architectural plans.
This list can and should be expanded by each office to include symbols generally used by it but not indicated here.
It s not always easy to make an educated guess about what a particular abbreviation or symbol might mean.
The third digit the sheet type is a number that represents the type of drawings that are on the sheet plans sections details schedules etc.