Wednesday 5 November 2014

Plan, Section, Elevation. Spatial Drawing conventions

Plan, Section, Elevation, Perspective and Models are the fundamental ways of drawing a “spatial” design


Plan: A plan is a top down or birds eye view of the area. It is like a map except you can see inside of the design

Section: It is similar to a plan except you look straight-on at the design. The cutting plane is vertical.
"A way to think about plan and section might be to imagine chainsawing a building in half, horizontally through the walls for plan and vertically through the roof and floor for a section."

Elevation: Drawing of an exterior of the design as if seen from straight-on. Elevations are like sections, without the cutting plane. Elevations depict the surface. No perspective or depth. 

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