Architectural Base 8 Letters

Architectural Base 8 Letters – Architectural Graphics 101 is back and today we’re talking about wall types, a topic so sexy I don’t know how anyone will make it to the end of this post without needing to take a shower.

It’s been a while since my last Architectural Graphics post and to be honest, I’m not really prepared to talk about wall types today … but my office is abuzz. There’s the way I want to do it, the way everyone else wants to do it, and the result is a weird hybrid of the two – not quite what it should be in either format.

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The reason I’m talking about this is that I spent quite a bit of time going through it last week and felt I needed to share my pain about the process. The sketch above is what started it all – messy and not meant for public consumption, but here we are nonetheless. This sketch is a graphical representation of a conversation I had about the purpose of wall types, how to lock them, and how to avoid the 8 billion different wall types.

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It’s this last article that threw me off. I think we would all agree that 8 billion is a lot of wall types and that number would suggest that something has gone terribly wrong. As it is, this project has 37 different types of walls (20 external and 17 internal).

I have a residential project currently on the boards that is approximately 75-80% through the construction drawings process. This is a big house (

And the set of drawings is spectacularly dense and comprehensive. I’ve been laying out the redline drawings for the last few days and when I got to the methodology used to label the wall types, my head almost exploded. Granted, we’re always looking to try and improve our graphic communication skills, and I’m not inherently resistant to doing things in a new way, but 37 different types of walls for a residential project is enough to made all meaningless. This is the result of using Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the methodology that the design people go through to bring some balance to the final product, except it doesn’t exactly work.

The plan I’ve included above is a very small snippet of the overall floor plan and there are 8 different wall types that are keyed in … and that’s not including the default wall type – a 2×4 by 5 interior wall /8″ drywall on each side, which is left unkeyed.

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This is the first pass of the cleaned version that I had originally redlined, and you can see we’re not there yet.

This is the page from our construction drawings that includes all the different types of walls in all their dizzying glory – definitely a work in progress.

For those of you who may not be familiar with wall types, in our architectural drawings – especially plans – we generally draw walls as representations of the space they occupy, rather than all the individual components that make up that wall. special. . If we look at the simplest walls in the plan, you can see that wall outlined as two lines, each representing the outermost face of that wall, when in fact, that wall was a layer of drywall, internal structural element (wood or metal studs), and another layer of drywall. This is a fairly simple wall and it doesn’t take long before the walls become more complex and varied in their composition.

For more complex walls, establishing the type of wall is more important so that all the different components can be explained and considered along with identifying the correct wall thickness. To help clarify this point, I’ve included some of the wall types from the plan shown above:

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I can spot a handful of items here that drive me a little crazy… but maybe I like to torture myself and pick battles that aren’t worth picking. If it were me, I’d list the individual wall components in order from top to bottom (for interior walls) and from exterior to interior (for exterior walls), but I digress.

) I got answers that were rooted in the process of creating these types of partitions within Revit, the BIM software our office uses to create our drawings. I understand that recreating that conversation (

) would be extremely boring and perhaps a chart could help make things easier. What you see below is what I found when I started working on my red lines… pay special attention to the labels I’ve highlighted in yellow:

Do you see? This is a single wall that appears to have two wall tags on it… ??? So let me explain what I learned:

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Each wall has a main wall label associated with it (ie 7A or 8A in the example shown above). The 7A wall tag is a 2×4 wall with drywall on one side and the 8A wall tag is a 2×6 wall with drywall on one side. The additional wall tag of 9A would be added on top of the base wall tag, which in this case is a 2×4 stud turned on edge with cement backer board, mortar, and tile as planned.

Clear as mud, right? If it helps, you can think of the basic wall tag as a simple hamburger, and the additional tag would be the addition of cheese… the end result is Burger Wall + Cheese Wall = Cheeseburger Wall

No. We are not doing that. It’s hard enough to make sure contractors are reading our drawings, but now we’re asking them to look at a wall tag, keep it and its dimension in mind, while they then look for another wall tag, the dimensions his, then add the two together. . All this while they are on the field.

Meaning that the drawings have data associated with them instead of just being lines on a piece of paper),

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People who do office design have come up with this method to give them some flexibility with how the walls are created and then modified. The “burger and cheese” method is significantly more convenient for designers and allows future modifications to happen easily. The only problem is that no one cares how the drafter makes the sausage… not a very easy way to communicate information to the contractor.

Burgers, cheese and sausage? I think I’m getting my metaphors mixed up… see what this post is doing to me? I’m losing my mind.

So where have we landed on wall types? Not where we need to be, but in the interim, labels will look like what makes the most sense to contractors … no “burger + cheese” walls. These days, I’ve noticed that we’re having more and more discussions in the office about how to best use our drafting software so that we can use the flexibility it offers us. The main challenge is that there aren’t many residential contractors who can benefit from the data we load into our Revit models, and we don’t do any generic manufacturing work, so we aren’t able to benefit from an amount of standardization in our detailing. That is a lot of time and effort that is not fully realized by anyone but us… the architect. whoops

Making “lemonade out of lemons” is that we are not so set in the way we work that we exclude the possibility that there might be a better way of doing things, and ultimately, that is our most important consideration.

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Did I tell you this was going to be a sexy post? I totally lied about that…sorry.

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Architect’s typeface was and is used for written descriptions on designs and projects because of its legibility. Michelle on Instagram rightly added that architects use capital letters. I use lowercase because then my kids can read