HOME PLAN DETAIL
By Before The Architect Copyright 2003-2009
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HOME PLAN DETAIL
INTRODUCTION
This home designer gets all choky when he’s shown
other guys’ custom home plan details.
There are the usual suspects
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Interior elevations of bathrooms and other
complex spaces
Rough drawings of home door profiles in
elevations, etc.
There are on occasion the usual pretenders – not
details at all, but entire-element drawings or something else entirely -
notices, boilerplate
Whole-home section drawing
Roof plan in home plan view
A home door schedule – really a schedule and
not a detail
That’s usually it.
However, when it comes to custom home plan details,
that’s not it.
What’s in a custom home plan detail?
It’s a drawing most often
Maybe dimensioned
Maybe scaled
Maybe annotated
A custom home plan Detail is usually something
small – from getting-your-arms- around-it and downwards in size – but
not always
A custom home plan Detail is something that
doesn’t generally qualify in a major sheet for drawing (except,
selectively, as an inset or annotation), e.g.,
Home framing a complex partition
A reference schematic relating several
interior or exterior home elevations
Section of a home exterior, concrete stair
abutting a framed exterior wall, etc.
A custom home plan Detail is something you’d
better draw in order to get it done right, because either your materials
and method are unusual compared to the norm or the subject itself is
unusual
A custom home plan Detail can involve a subject,
but not often
Environmental conditions
Home interior stairway fire safety, etc.
THE CHECKLIST OF CUSTOM HOME PLAN DETAILS
Here are 25 custom home plan design Details, most not
seen by this home designer elsewhere ever
Before The Architect uses these regularly, albeit
rarely with most all of them in a single, given dream home plan set
Many are one-of-a-kind
There’ll be more as a specific custom home
designing warrants
Purpose: To fortify selected walls, particularly
in bathroom design, prospectively for subsequent, potential application
of grab bars without tearing up walls and other clad after closing-in
Content: Intrabay size and centerline height of
blocking, sites of blocking, methods and materials for fastening
Purpose: To get an Order responsibly represented
when clients are moved to really care, which is increasingly the norm in
our home designing.
This is standard ops in this home designer's home plan presentation when
a Classical column of any sort - in this instance, Tuscan - is
designed-in.
Content: Section in home elevation, identifying
parts and proportions
Purpose: To convey method and material for special
conditions of wall layout, especially where walls are extensively
windowed and doored, and neither the designer nor the clients want to
encourage wall wibble-wobble in use, air pressure differential, etc.
Content: Section in home elevation, identifying
parts, including fasteners, and dimensions
Purpose: To define method and material
specifically or in finish carpenter latitude of selected details, most
often interior casings to home doors and home windows, but also
baseboard – particularly base cap – staircase spindle, or baluster,
layout, chair rail and cornice trim parts and association, etc.
Content: Section in home elevation, identifying
parts and placement
Purpose: To be sure that all, especially clients,
understand the sectional profile they’ve chosen; namely, whether open
above or ceilinged [Stair design and stair construction structure is
often extremely difficult to get across to clients without such details]
Content: Section in home elevation, defining in
table and to-scale the stair construction metrics, including landings
and ceiling run-up if any
Purpose: To assure there’s not less than code
compliance to stair construction headroom, especially at head landing
and upper level overhangs and especially in story-and-a-half designs,
and, if not, to make it so
Content: Section in home elevation, paying close
attention to head landing and overhangs, especially if unusual
adaptation to stair construction structure is required; dimensioned, to
scale, and annotated
Purpose: To communicate the necessity of sloping
both landing and stair treads and the means and method to abut steps or
landing, particularly concrete structure, to exterior of perimeter frame
wall, and maintaining tread slip resistance
Content: Section in home elevation: to scale and
dimensioned; checking off home elevation levels at abut to structure and
at outside, upper edge of landing and stair treads relative to interior
home floor level; and layering of materials between steps, particularly
concrete steps, and other structure
Purpose: To be clear about the physical
relationship – particularly on the vertical – of wall frames on abutting
levels or stairs atop one another or both (the stack stair instance
being a matter of considerable confusion from time to time in order to
line up stairwell walls on the vertical)
Content: Home elevation in section, showing
alignments on the vertical (or plan view in section, showing alignments
on the horizontal), usually scaled, always annotated, being careful to
define parts’ abutters and space gaps for unabraded moisture barriers or
construction wiggle-room in very tightly designed spaces
Purpose: To provide a collective reference to one
and all when designer home plans develop several different home
elevations – landings, decks, patios, lofts, principal levels, step-ups,
step-downs, exterior finish grades markers, etc.
Squeeze out doubt and misunderstanding with details such as this one
relating relative differences in elevations before the walls came down.
Content: Clearly labeled and dimensioned schematic
in home elevation
Purpose: To visualize the “after" version of a
remodel where interior walls are removed of themselves or to make way
for additional space, in either instance newly opened to longer views. .
.Too much home design change
to leave to common sense and chance.
Content: Section(s) in home elevation; scaled,
dimensioned, and annotated
Purpose: To visualize and, to an extent define for
home construction, the physical relationship of a roof dormer either to
its own parts or to proximate rooflines and interior space or both.
Not all dormers are created
equal, even on the same home. Detail differences in design just
can't always be represented well in whole-property floor plans and
elevations.
Content: Section in home elevation or isometric
either in wireframe or partially shaded, defining major lines of roof
eaves, roof ridge, roof overhangs, type of roof dormer ceiling layout,
home window well if any, rooflines, etc.; scaled, dimensioned, and
annotated
Purpose: To make sure that certain specifics about
roof dormer trim are clearly expressed, e.g., physical relationship of
roof dormer eaves to roof eaves, extent of facing roof overhang, recess
if any, home window well physical relationship to roof dormer and
surrounding rooflines, etc.
Content: Section in home elevation or isometric in
wireframe or partially shaded, drawn as clearly as possible the crucial
physical interrelationships of studied parts
Purpose: To settle on a coffer layout or optional
layouts, paying particular attention to irregular corners, sizing,
symmetry, and siting pendant luminaires
Content: Home plan view, scaled, dimensioned, and
annotated, including as needed specifications for home lighting,
particularly pendant luminaires,
and home ceiling fan siting
Purpose: To convey arch type(s), springlines, and
minor axes between arches of varying major axes, in order to visualize
intended design of appearance, consistency or determined differences
Content: Home elevations, scaled, annotated, and
dimensioned
Purpose: To get a dining table properly sited and
offset and to determine latitude in dining table sizing as required
(sometimes the table determines the dining space, sometimes the other
way around)
Content: Home plan view, scaled, annotated, and
dimensioned to identify dining table centerpoint, dining table extents,
and extents of unobstructed space for diners and perimeter traffic
a. Purpose: Right from the get-go, the clients couldn't fathom parallel versus open ceiling
staircases until these detail drawings came in sight . . . immediate
recognition.
b. Content: Sections in elevation, scaled, dimensioned,
annotated.
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