Relationship of Plan, Elevation & Section: Radhika Nagpal
Relationship of Plan, Elevation & Section: Radhika Nagpal
Radhika Nagpal
RELATIONSHIP OF PLAN, SECTION AND ELEVATION
Introduction
• Designing happens in a studio/office of an architect.
• This however has to be transferred to the site for execution. In any
case the design idea has to be recorded.
• For all these activities a language is required.
• This language has to be graphic as the information to be
transferred is of that nature.
RELATIONSHIP OF PLAN, SECTION AND ELEVATION
Architectural communication
• A language is used for communication.
• Like English, Hindi etc. there is also the graphic communication
language.
• This language is used for communicating data that has three
dimensions.
• Like the noun, verb, adjective etc. the graphic language has plan,
section and elevation as its components.
• As in the case of grammar there is a relationship between these and
this language has to follow these rules to make sense.
Language of architecture
• Architecture is placing designed objects in space to organize space for an envisaged activity.
• The design and placement of these objects are born out of thoughts that have to be crystallized.
• The design and placement of these objects needs to be transferred on a recordable format for
which it has to be drawn instead of written as is done in other languages for transferring a
thought.
• The thought process happening in an architects mind has to be put on a readable format and
sent to the site where the thought can be executed.
• Architects use drawings that comprise plans, sections and elevations to communicate specific
ideas to the executing agency for the actual conversion of the idea into a built form.
• There are other drawing formats like isometric, axonometric, perspective etc., but these are
normally not used for construction activities.
RELATIONSHIP OF PLAN, SECTION AND ELEVATION
Their individual identity
• Plan, Section and Elevation while maintaining their interrelationships for
making sense also their independent identities.
• A plan is a horizontal top view or a horizontal section of the object or the
organization.
• A section is a view of the object or organization when cut by a vertical
plane to show the internal construction of the object or organization.
• An elevation is a two dimensional view of the external vertical facade of
the object or organization.
RELATIONSHIP OF PLAN, SECTION AND ELEVATION
Their meaning
As drawing:
• As explained in the previous slide as drawings, the plan, section and elevation have a specific
information to provide to the reader.
As a statement:
• The drawings of an office represent the standard of an office.
• The plan as the representation of the division of spaces in a spatial organization , placement
of furniture, placement of furniture etc. representing the workability of space can be seen as
the manifestation of the element of function in architecture.
• The section as the representation of the components that support the structure like walls,
slabs, beams etc. can be seen as the manifestation of element of strength in architecture.
• The elevation that represents the external look albeit in two dimensions can be seen as the
manifestation of the element of beauty in architecture.
RELATIONSHIP OF PLAN, SECTION AND ELEVATION
•This is how the intangible relationship of the plan and elevation can be realized.
RELATIONSHIP OF PLAN, SECTION AND ELEVATION