Exploring Isometric Drawings and Elevation Views in Architecture

Let's go to our next page. Here we have some isometric drawings. Now look at this.

This is an isometric drawing of that counter table we were just seeing. Do you see the jog that's going on there? Mountain Blue has some very, very talented and sophisticated people working at their offices. These are what we call isometric drawings.

They're identifying them as not to scale. The purpose is to show people how things are constructed. So again, we have isometric drawings here.

And then these are some of the sections that are referenced in other places. We have, for example, here a plan view of the ADA counter and then the elevation. So elevation one, here's the front view.

Here's the left view. Here's the right view, the dimensions. It's very common to see things like equal, equal in the dimension call outs because they're saying this is the length of these components.

I definitely need to have these bolt holes here, probably because of some equipment. But this area in through here can float because I have one here, one here, and this other one is in the middle. And it's easier for the people in the field just to make that exact measurement themselves.

Next page, front view, plan view. We have different sections that are through here. Again, a lot of this kind of information is very repetitive.

But again, it's a legal document. It has to be included. And again, I can't stress to you how impressive these drawings are.

And I think you would serve yourself well to keep a copy of these so that whenever you're doing kitchen, bathroom, interior elevation drawings, you can go back to this as a very excellent source. I'm just thumbing through. Again, we're still working on the cafeteria.

These are some of the support information. Here we have a smaller kitchenette. Again, you look at it.

You see the sink. You can see where they have the separate cabinets, the pochets for the different materials. You'll notice that they have this kind of a line type for the soffit above.

Again, not in contract. Let's zoom into here. Again, you see the references to the sections.

And we'll be getting into these of where the sections are for these specific cabinets. It's very common in kitchen interior elevations to show the shelving. And if you're an architect or in the process of becoming an architect, it's always valuable to keep this kind of information in mind just because when you're dealing with the homeowner, how many shelves do you want? It's something that people have in their mind, but they don't always think about it.

You see these are adjustable shelvings. So this is where they have little holes that are drilled in the inside of the cabinets with the clips that hold the shelves up. So you could ask your client, how many shelves do you want? Here's the sink.

You see that it's solid there. And it says open under here. This is part of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

So again, so that wheelchair people can roll and get their feet comfortably under the sink. Again, we have drawers here. You can see that they're showing the number of drawers.

But we'd have to look at image B on sheet S2 to find out more information. And here are the holes I was talking about for the adjustable shelving. We recently worked on a project and made sure that we had the images showing the dots all the way up, just because of how the owner wanted to store particular things in their kitchen.

Bathroom. Again, all of these heights are controlled by ADA. The clearance that's under here, you can see that it's a removable panel.

If we look on FS2, and we'll see that later on, we'll see a section of how this panel, in fact, will be pushed back and angled, because they're trying to conceal the plumbing and at the same time comply with ADA requirements. Elevation 1. A lot of detail. Adjustable shelving.

You can see where the doors are hinged. Open down here. Garbage cans here.

Glass up there. Dimensions. Again, you start to see the consistency.

Call outs. And now we're starting to see the sections. So let's pause this vid for now, and then we'll come right back and continue on.