Studio 4
Constructing Environments
ENVS10003
Studio 4 an introduction to working drawings
NAME:
TUTORIAL #: 12
Jintao wang(kelly)
GROUP MEMBERS: Henry, Tingting CASE STUDY BUILDING NAME: 1
Queen’s college
TITLE BLOCK
List the types of information found in the title block on the floor plan page. - Architecture Company - construction company
- Provide an example of the dimensions as they appear on this floor plan? What units are used for the dimensions? Numbers (mm) 46m 57cm
- scale -orientation - schedule -name of the buildings
- Is there a grid? What system is used for identifying the grid lines?
-date and drawing numbers
Yes , numbers and letters (dotted lines)
Why might this information be important? Context, information interms of the construction and its surroundings
- Why is some information found in General Notes? more general information such as length& materials
2
DRAWING CONTENT - PLANS
- What type of information is shown in this floor plan?
-
-specific and detailed overview of the ground floor
Length, materials
-name of purpose of the area -grid -scale (1:100)
What is the purpose of the legend?
- Why are some parts of the drawing annotated? Illustrate how the annotations are associated with the relevant part of the drawing.
-doors, windows,stairs -different floor materials(wood)
Referencing
-legend , wall, finishing
01.A7.01 W.01 G.22
-references for other drawings
Jintao wang(kelly) tutor: Arturo student number: 565322
Studio 4
Constructing Environments
- Illustrate how the locations of sections are identified on the plan. What do these symbols mean?
ENVS10003
- Illustrate how floor levels are noted on the plan?
Lines, different thickness
- Are some areas of the drawing clouded? Why? - Illustrate how references to other drawings are shown on the plan. What do these symbols mean? A.01
Grid lines
G202
Door types
Yes indicating the texture of the floor (such as the timber)
DRAWING CONTENT – ELEVATIONS
Window types
3
Dimensions
- What type of information is shown in this elevation? How does it differ from the information shown on the plan?
Finishing Wall types
-project number, project name -date - How are windows and doors identified? Provide and example of each. Is there a rationale to their numbering? What do these numbers mean? Can you find the answer somewhere in the drawings?
-grid -scale plan has more detailed information such as rooms, spaces , areas while elevation is focused on outside with different orieatations
- Are dimensions shown? If so, how do they differ from the dimensions on the plan? Provide an example of the dimensions as they relate to the elevation. yes
Jintao wang(kelly) tutor: Arturo student number: 565322
Studio 4 -
Constructing Environments
What types of levels are shown on the elevations? Illustrate how levels are shown in relation to the elevation. ground level
ENVS10003
- Are any parts of the elevation clouded? Why? Yes , indicating the orientations, and sunlight
- Is there a grid? If so, how / where is it shown? -----------
- Is there a legend? What does it identify and how is it used?
- Illustrate where this elevation is located in relation to the plan? By reference
4
DRAWING CONTENT – SECTIONS
Yes, general information
- What type of information is shown in this section? How does it differ from the information shown on the plan and elevation?
- What types of information on the elevations are expressed using words? Illustrate how this is done.
General information, more details on each level’s information
The name of the area or type
- Illustrate how the doors and windows are identified on the elevations.
- Are dimensions shown? If so, how do they differ from the dimensions on the elevation?
yes
What types of information on the sections are expressed using words? Illustrate how this is done. Different door types or different window types
Jintao wang(kelly) tutor: Arturo student number: 565322
Studio 4
Constructing Environments 5
- Illustrate how the section drawing differentiates between building elements that are cut through and those that are shown in elevation (beyond).
DRAWING CONTENT – DETAILS
- What sorts of things are detailed? Lines
Different texture
Clouded area
types
Rooms
- Provide examples of how different materials are shown on the sections.
ENVS10003
- Are the details compressed using break lines? Why? Yes To indicate different areas
- Provide examples of how different materials are shown on drawings at this scale.
- Find where this section is located on the plans.
reference
- Find the locations of these details on the plans, elevations and sections.
Jintao wang(kelly) tutor: Arturo student number: 565322
Studio 4
w e b
1 something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving. 2. a thin, silken material spun by spiders and the larvae of some insects, as the webworms and tent caterpillars; cobweb. 3. Textiles. a. a woven fabric, especially a whole piece of cloth in the course of being woven or after it comes from the loom. b. the flat woven strip, without pile, often found at one or both ends of an Oriental rug. 4. something resembling woven material, especially something having an interlaced or latticelike appearance: He looked up at the web of branches of the old tree. 5. an intricate set or pattern of circumstances, facts, etc.: The thief was convicted by a web of evidence. Who can understand the web of life?
Constructing Environments
ENVS10003
a web can be a complex, interconnected structure such as the web created by the spider . or as in an arrangement it can be network, telephone web wires. in terms of architecture or construction, it is the space between the ribs of vault, a metal sheet that connects the flanges of structure elements.
The free dictionary.com: visited on 28/08/2013 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/we b
my own sketch of " open-web steel joist"
Dictionary.com. visited on 27/08/2013http://dictionary.reference.com/br owse/web Building construction illustrated, 4th edition.Francis D.K.CHING
Studio glossary:
Jintao wang(kelly) tutor: Arturo student number: 565322