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Architectural Representation

Drawings, models and diagrams architects use to explain design. Every keyword shows its own picture beside a plain description — tap an image to see it up close.

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  • Physical Scale Model — Represents a building as a reduced three-dimensional object made from card, wood, plastic, or other materials
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    Physical Scale Model

    Represents a building as a reduced three-dimensional object made from card, wood, plastic, or other materials.

  • White Card Model — Uses plain white board to emphasize form, openings, massing, and shadow without material distraction
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    White Card Model

    Uses plain white board to emphasize form, openings, massing, and shadow without material distraction.

  • Massing Model — Simplifies a project into basic volumes to study height, scale, density, orientation, and site relationships
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    Massing Model

    Simplifies a project into basic volumes to study height, scale, density, orientation, and site relationships.

  • Digital 3D Model — Displays a computer-built three-dimensional design with controllable geometry, materials, views, and lighting
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    Digital 3D Model

    Displays a computer-built three-dimensional design with controllable geometry, materials, views, and lighting.

  • BIM Model — Shows a data-rich building model in which architectural, structural, and service components are coordinated
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    BIM Model

    Shows a data-rich building model in which architectural, structural, and service components are coordinated.

  • Concept Sketch — Communicates an early design idea quickly through loose lines, notes, shading, and simplified form
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    Concept Sketch

    Communicates an early design idea quickly through loose lines, notes, shading, and simplified form.

  • Parti Diagram — Reduces the main organizing idea of a project to a simple diagram of form, movement, hierarchy, or space
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    Parti Diagram

    Reduces the main organizing idea of a project to a simple diagram of form, movement, hierarchy, or space.

  • Site Analysis Diagram — Maps important site forces such as access, views, noise, climate, topography, vegetation, and surrounding uses
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    Site Analysis Diagram

    Maps important site forces such as access, views, noise, climate, topography, vegetation, and surrounding uses.

  • Site Plan — Shows the building footprint, property boundaries, roads, paths, planting, levels, and nearby context from above
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    Site Plan

    Shows the building footprint, property boundaries, roads, paths, planting, levels, and nearby context from above.

  • Floor Plan — Cuts horizontally through a building to show rooms, walls, doors, circulation, furniture, and dimensions
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    Floor Plan

    Cuts horizontally through a building to show rooms, walls, doors, circulation, furniture, and dimensions.

  • Roof Plan — Shows roof geometry, slopes, drainage, plant, skylights, terraces, parapets, and access from above
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    Roof Plan

    Shows roof geometry, slopes, drainage, plant, skylights, terraces, parapets, and access from above.

  • Reflected Ceiling Plan — Maps ceilings as if reflected onto the floor to show lighting, grids, bulkheads, diffusers, and detectors
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    Reflected Ceiling Plan

    Maps ceilings as if reflected onto the floor to show lighting, grids, bulkheads, diffusers, and detectors.

  • Elevation Drawing — Shows one exterior or interior face straight-on with levels, openings, materials, and vertical dimensions
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    Elevation Drawing

    Shows one exterior or interior face straight-on with levels, openings, materials, and vertical dimensions.

  • Building Section — Cuts vertically through a project to reveal floor levels, structure, spaces, height, and relationships between storeys
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    Building Section

    Cuts vertically through a project to reveal floor levels, structure, spaces, height, and relationships between storeys.

  • Wall Section — Enlarges a vertical slice through the envelope to explain layers, structure, insulation, finishes, and junctions
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    Wall Section

    Enlarges a vertical slice through the envelope to explain layers, structure, insulation, finishes, and junctions.

  • Detail Drawing — Explains a small construction condition at a large scale with precise materials, connections, and dimensions
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    Detail Drawing

    Explains a small construction condition at a large scale with precise materials, connections, and dimensions.

  • Construction Drawing — Provides coordinated technical information that contractors can use to build the project accurately
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    Construction Drawing

    Provides coordinated technical information that contractors can use to build the project accurately.

  • Blueprint Style — Presents technical linework in the familiar appearance of pale drawings on a deep blue background
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    Blueprint Style

    Presents technical linework in the familiar appearance of pale drawings on a deep blue background.

  • Axonometric Drawing — Shows three-dimensional form without perspective convergence so dimensions remain visually consistent along parallel axes
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    Axonometric Drawing

    Shows three-dimensional form without perspective convergence so dimensions remain visually consistent along parallel axes.

  • Isometric Drawing — Uses three equally scaled axes to present a clear measured-looking three-dimensional view
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    Isometric Drawing

    Uses three equally scaled axes to present a clear measured-looking three-dimensional view.

  • Exploded Axonometric — Separates floors, systems, or components vertically or horizontally while preserving their alignment and assembly order
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    Exploded Axonometric

    Separates floors, systems, or components vertically or horizontally while preserving their alignment and assembly order.

  • Cutaway View — Removes part of the exterior shell to reveal rooms, structure, or systems inside the building
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    Cutaway View

    Removes part of the exterior shell to reveal rooms, structure, or systems inside the building.

  • Section Perspective — Combines a sectional cut with realistic perspective depth to explain interior space and occupation
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    Section Perspective

    Combines a sectional cut with realistic perspective depth to explain interior space and occupation.

  • Facade Study — Examines the pattern, depth, materials, shading, openings, and modular logic of a building envelope
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    Facade Study

    Examines the pattern, depth, materials, shading, openings, and modular logic of a building envelope.

  • Photorealistic Architectural Render — Presents an unbuilt design with realistic materials, lighting, context, people, and camera behavior
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    Photorealistic Architectural Render

    Presents an unbuilt design with realistic materials, lighting, context, people, and camera behavior.

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