The walls are the strongest visual elements in a floor plan.
Architectural floor plan symbols windows.
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.
Breaks in walls indicate doors windows and openings between rooms.
Floor plan symbols are always shown in plan view that is as though you have removed the house roof and are looking down at the floor from above.
Many of the furniture symbols in floor plans you can guess at once you understand this but other blue print symbols such as stairs appliances and windows are harder to decipher.
Walls are represented by parallel lines and may be solid or filled with a pattern.
Architectural floor plan symbols the symbols below are used in architectural floor plans.
Every office has their own standard but most symbols should be similar to those shown on this page.
This list can and should be expanded by each office to include symbols generally used by it but not indicated here.
Walls windows and doors plan symbols and features.
Plan 497 21 above features floor plan details showing doors walls and windows.