SITE PLANS AND DRAWING TECHNIQUES SUPPLEMENTARY VIEWS BY

SITE PLANS AND DRAWING TECHNIQUES- SUPPLEMENTARY VIEWS BY: KABLES AND HARLEY

HOW TO DIMENSION SITE AND PLOT PLANS • Site • is the process of developing an overall outline for your website, with a strong focus on the organization of content. • Think of it as "information architecture", or the process by which your content and navigation are designed. • Plot • is an architecture, engineering, and/or landscape architecture plan drawing • shows the buildings, utility runs, and equipment layout, the position of roads, and other constructions of an existing or proposed project site at a defined scale.

PICTURES • Site • Plot plan

LANDSCAPE PLANS • landscape planning is defined as an activity concerned with reconciling competing land uses while protecting natural processes and significant cultural and natural resources. • landscaping design ideas to increase curb appeal and home value, and turn your yard into a place for growing, relaxing and entertaining.

CONTOURS AND TOPOGRAPHICAL PROFILES • Contours • a line on a map joining points of equal height above or below sea level. • Topographical Profiles • is a cross sectional view along a line drawn through a portion of a topographic map. • In other words, if you could slice through a portion of the earth, pull away one half, and look at it from the side, the surface would be a topographic profile.

SETBACKS • is the distance which a building or other structure is set back from a street or road, a river or other stream, a shore or flood plain, or any other place which is deemed to need protection.

UTILITIES • is an important concept in economics and game theory, because it represents satisfaction experienced by the consumer of a good.

ISOMETRIC, OBLIQUE PERSPECTIVE, AND PRESENTATION DRAWINGS • isometric • presentation • Oblique perspective

SCHEMATIC DRAWING • is a representation of the elements of a system using abstract, graphic symbols rather than realistic pictures.

ORTHOGRAPHIC DRAWING • is a means of representing a threedimensional object in two dimensions.