Architectural drawing and Architectural plan

Architectural drawing is technical drawing of architecture and drawing for architectural projects. Architectural drawing are a means of communicating ideas, concepts and details, and require drafting skills in modern and traditional methods of architectural drawing.

The term Architectural plans is often used as synonym, but this term has other meaning as well. It can mean a Floor plan; more general any Scale drawing of a structure; the complete Documentation of a building project or the plan to implement an architectural project.

Architectural drawing can includes all architectural contracts and drawings such as plot plans, floor plans, elevations, sections, details, schedules, etc., and any architectural drawing that forms a part of the contract documents. Exceptions can include mechanical, electrical and structural drawings, as well as specialized data that are normally handled by specialists in those fields.

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An architectural plan is a plan for architecture, and the documentation of written and graphic descriptions of the architectural elements of a building project including sketches, drawings and details.

The term “Architectural plan” can have multiple related meaning:

• Plan for an architectural project
• Documentation of written and graphic descriptions of the architectural elements of a building project including sketches, drawings and details. This effort could also includes both the design of new buildings and other structures, as well as the planning for reconstruction of early historic structures.
• Architectural design
• Floor plan
• Scale drawing of a structure. “the plans for City Hall were on file”.

This article will focuss on the general meaning of architectural plan as a plan and documentation for a building project.

An architectural plan is a type of plan for architecture to describe a place or object, or to communicate building or fabrication instructions. It can containing technical architectural drawings and documentation, and are drawn or printed on paper, but they can take the form of a digital file. Their purpose in these disciplines is to accurately and unambiguously capture all the geometric features of a site, building, product or component. Plans can also be for presentation or orientation purposes, and as such are often less detailed versions of the former. The end goal of plans is either to portray an existing place or object, or to convey enough information to allow a builder or manufacturer to realize a design.

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Elegance

Elegance is the attribute of being unusually effective and simple. It is frequently used as a standard of tastefulness, particularly in the areas of visual design and decoration.

Some westerners associate elegance with simplicity and consistency of design, focusing on the main or basic features of an object, its dignified gracefulness, or restrained beauty of style.

Visual stimuli are frequently considered elegant if a small number of colors and stimuli are used.

Synonyms: classy

Closed to simplicity and consistency of design

Elegance is about the gratuitous (serampangan, asal-asalan) — or, rather, avoiding the gratuitous.  It’s true that sometimes people disagree about which of two or more things is the “most elegant”, but this arises from underlying assumptions rather than any true subjectivity of the principle. Each of us has a set of operating assumptions, some greater than others. Where something conforms to one’s expectations and assumptions, it is seen to not lack in elegance in that manner. Someone that does not have the same underlying assumptions might see the same thing as atrociously inelegant, but having a different set of assumptions would overlook similarly subjective.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

“Dream big, simple act.” – Miphz