WEEK 7

RESEARCH: HOW TO DO A FLOOR PLAN (DRAWING).

My project is looking better after every week. This week my main objective is to come up with different ideas of floor plans for the tiny house I am designing. Then after doing those four ideas I will have to pick the best one and draw a very precise and detailed floor plan.

Since I have no experience on how to draw floor plans, I had to do a research about it. Here are the sites and books I used for my research:

Bielefeld, B. & Skiba, I., 2009. Basics Technical Drawing. 2nd ed. Basel – Boston – Berlin: Birkhauser Verlag AG.

On, A. M., 2017. How to render a floor plan by hand | MARKERS. [Online]
Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtJhTmxojTY
[Accessed 04 July 2019].

ProfDrafting, 2015. How to Sketch a Floor Plan. [Online]
Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5A58npxsps
[Accessed 04 July 2019].

Property, E., 2017. How to draw a floor plan. [Online]
Available at: https://elementsproperty.co.uk/floorplans/how-to-draw-a-floorplan/
[Accessed 04 July 2019].

Sketcher, R., n.d. Draw Floor Plans. [Online]
Available at: https://www.roomsketcher.com/features/draw-floor-plans/
[Accessed 04 July 2019].

SmartDraw, n.d. Floor Plan. [Online]
Available at: https://www.smartdraw.com/floor-plan/
[Accessed 04 July 2019].

Workshop, 3. D., 2017. Floor Plan Design Tutorial. [Online]
Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7YxG4nsqeg
[Accessed 04 July 2019].

After the research , here are the main points (for me) in order to draw a detailed and accurate floor plan:

1. Think about different options when it comes to the interior.
2. Pick the best one
3. Have all the dimensions and maths ready.
4. Draw everything from the outside to the inside.
5. Start with the walls in the exterior to the ones in the interior.
6. Add basic architectural features.
7. Add Furniture if necessary.
8. Render the whole drawing (colours, fine liners, markers, etc.)