Architectural Drafting

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Architectural Drafting

• Architecture and Pre Design
• Week 7

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draft     (drft) n.

• Any of various stages in the development of a
  plan, document, or picture
• A representation of something to be constructed.

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drafter     (drftr) n.

• One that drafts, especially a person who drafts
  plans or designs or a person who composes a
  document.

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Introduction

• Anyone can have ideas about how they want to
  build or add on to a house.

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Cont

• To draw it so the structure can be built
  correctly takes the talent of an Architectural
  Drafter.

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An architectural drafter

• can be self employed or work for many different
  companies.
• is a skilled technician who designs or develops
  the working drawings required to guide the
  construction of buildings.

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Arch. drafters are concerned with

• building designs
• site plans
• floor and foundation plans
• elevations
• building sections
• details

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Floor Plan
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Elevation
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Detail
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Detail
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Arch. drafters are concerned with

• Cost estimates, specification writing, code and
  zoning applications, renderings and perspectives,
  
• models of building, structural design,
  environmental system design and computer
  applications.

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Drafting is

• a universal language by means an object can be
  described accurately and clearly.
• is the language used by engineering and
  architectural profession to develop and record
  ideas.
• easy for anyone who is competent to read the
  drawing and is qualified to build the product can
  then carry out the designs.

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Info other than drawings

• Specifications, which accompany the drawings used
  in the building of structures, are worthless
  without the drawings for which they were
  prepared.
• Together, the drawings and the specifications are
  the instruments which enable the designer to
  convey ideas to the builder,

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More info

• Drafting and Design have become highly
  specialized with the particular branch of
  engineering sciences to which it applies

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Student of drafting

• No drafter can prepare accurate and complete
  working drawing of machines, bridges, buildings,
  or parts without being thoroughly trained with
  the construction processes

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Construction Contract

• A legal document which specifies the
  what-when-where-how-how much and by whom in a
  construction project

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Permit

• A governmental municipal authorization to
  perform a building process

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Summary

• Drafting is a universal language by means an
  object can be described accurately and clearly.
• is the language used by engineering and
  architectural profession to develop and record
  ideas.
• easy for anyone who is competent to read the
  drawing and is qualified to build the product can
  then carry out the designs.