Typical U.S. house floor plan.

Floorplan of Kazan Cathedral, St.Petersburg

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A floor plan (floorplan) in architecture and building engineering is a diagram, usually to scale, of the relationships between rooms, spaces and other physical features at one level of a structure. Similar to a map the orientation of the view is downward from above, but unlike a conventional map, a plan is understood to be drawn at a particular vertical position (commonly at about mid-level between floors). Objects below this level are seen, objects at this level are shown 'cut' in plan-section, and objects above this vertical position within the structure are omitted or shown dashed. Image File history File links Typical House Floor Plan File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Typical House Floor Plan File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Image File history File linksMetadata Kazan-floorplan. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Kazan-floorplan. ... 19th-century view of the Kazan Cathedral in St. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and... The Parthenon on top of the Acropolis, Athens, Greece Architecture (from Latin, architectura and ultimately from Greek, αρχιτεκτων, a master builder, from αρχι- chief, leader and τεκτων, builder, carpenter) is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. ... // Building engineering: a discipline for the modern era Building engineering, commonly known in the US as architectural engineering, is an emerging engineering discipline that concerns with the planning, design, construction, operation, renovation, and maintenance of buildings, as well as with their impacts on the surrounding environment. ... Sample flowchart diagram A diagram is a simplified and structured visual representation of concepts, ideas, constructions, relations, statistical data, anatomy etc used in all aspects of human activities to visualize and clarify the topic. ... For other uses, see Map (disambiguation). ...

The term may be used in general to describe any drawing showing the physical layout of objects. For example, it may denote the arrangement of the displayed objects at an exhibition, or the arrangement of exhibitor booths at a convention. A copy of an original floor plan drawing is traditionally called a blueprint. Now drawings are reproduced using plotters and large format xerographic copiers. Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience, a temporary presentation of art. ... Metro Toronto Convention Centre, late 2004. ... Modern blueprint of the French galleon La Belle. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Xerography (or Electrophotography) is a photocopying technique developed by Chester Carlson (Born Feb 8 1906 - Died Sep 19 1968) in 1938 and patented on October 6, 1942. ...

Plan view or "planform" is defined as a vertical orthographic projection of an object on a horizontal plane, like a map. A planform or plan view is a vertical orthographic projection of an object on a horizontal plane, like a map. ... Example of orthographic drawing from a US Patent (1913), showing two views of the same object. ...

It is also called a "plan" in architectural terms, as opposed to "elevation" which means how the object will look when seen from a side, or a "cross section" where the building is shown cut along an axis to reveal the interior. A "reflected ceiling plan" shows a view of the room as if looking from above, through the ceiling, at a mirror installed one foot below the ceiling level, which shows the reflected image of the ceiling above. This convention maintains the same orientation of the floor and ceilings plans - looking down from above. Reflected Ceiling Plans or RCP's are used by designers and architects to demonstrate lighting, visible mechanical features, and ceiling forms as part of the documents provided for construction. In geometry, a cross section is the intersection of a body in 3-dimensional space with a plane, or of a body in 2-dimensional space with a line, etc. ...

List of floor plan software

ConceptDraw ConceptDraw V is a professional cross-platform drawing and diagramming software for quick creation of business diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, home and office layouts and much more. ...

See also

Bauhaus in Budapest The District Map of Budapest Bauhaus in Budapest was clearly a dominant tendency between 1930 and 1948: large residential buildings, cinemas, churches and even an airport was built in this style. ...

External links

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