
Explore why 2D drawings serve as a graphic language to document ideas, communicating details like colors, dimensions, and roof style to builders, municipalities, and clients.
Interior elevations reveal bathroom details like vanity height, tile layout, mirrors, and lighting, and show how tall objects relate to each other.
Explore how schedules or table schedules accompany drawings to coordinate every project detail. A window schedule shows an operable window, three feet wide and seven feet tall, with material notes.
Explore floor plans in detail, moving from macro overviews to the different types of floor plans and the graphical conventions used to communicate ideas.
Identify typical flawed architectural plans in a drawing set and compare the regular flow plan to schematic versions, construction floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, furniture plans, and finish plans.
Explore floor finish and wall finish plans, using hatch codes and legends to identify carpet, tile, and wall materials; learn why separate drawings aid trades.
Thank learners for joining the course, invite questions about their drawings, and encourage contacting through the Udemy course discussions for further elaboration.
So many of us have a desire to be creative and design things, but before we can get to the really fun stuff, we need to understand some of the basics. In this course, students will explore the language of architectural design, namely drawings / plans.
Architectural drawings come with their own set of style guides, symbols, vocabulary, etc. These are things that students need to understand before they can start participating in design projects, and truly communicating in this exciting field of study.
In this course, students will get a high level overview of the ins and outs of architectural drawings so that they can feel comfortable moving forward working with architectural plans.
Whether you aspire to be in design, construction, engineering, architectural visualization, or just to design your own buildings, this is a core skill essential to the process.
What to expect:
This is a short overview course that starts with the basics of architectural drawings
Later, the course dives into specific types of drawings at a more detailed level
By the end, you should have a good grasp of the symbols, vocabulary, and other important elements of professional architectural plans.