Architectural Plans Explained

[@MyFatherLooksLikeAPallasCat]

I don’t have anything to add, just a comment to help out with the algorithm so more young architects would see these videos!

[@stewarthicks]

You're doing great work! Thanks!

[@ayotundeoluyeye6016]

Thank you

[@sebastiangallacher9820]

You dropped this 👑

[@yellowflowerorangeflower5706]

Ditto

[@christopherstephenjenksbsg4944]

I became interested in architecture as a kid because I lived in a Greek Revival brick house, built in 1831. The walls on the first story were about 12 inches thick, but they stepped back to about 8 inches on the second floor, so the second-floor rooms were slightly bigger than the corresponding first-story rooms. This gave me my first insight into structure, the support of floor joists, etc. I also became fascinated by the plan books you mention, although in my case they were plan books of the 1960s and early 70s. I think I figured out how to read floor plans when I was about 8 years old. I know I was drawing floor plans by age 9 -- usually plans for the totally over-the-top mansion from my favorite "Gothic" soap opera, "Dark Shadows", with all its hidden rooms and secret passages. Another favorite drawing activity was trying to match the interior sets of TV sit-com houses to the exteriors shown on the shows. I came up with some "creative" solutions, since the set designers rarely made any attempt to match the exterior and interior. I can tell I'm a lot older than you. When you were playing Super Mario Brothers, I was in grad school!

[@quinnnewberry9977]

great comment, couldn’t have said it better myself!!!!

[@vtr279]

Me too!!! Born in '93, basically orphaned by 8-9, (not entirely as debilitating as I once nievely thought - soon thereafter began a powerful self adaptation of technological salvation via The Sims, Lego Mega Blocks, and a myriad of infinitely tasteful, cinematic master-homes like: ☆☆ "Rose Red" ☆☆ ☆ "Charmed Manor"☆ ☆ "Practical Magic" ☆ 'Coastal Victorian' Masterpiece Etc. Etc. Etc. Inspires me!!!

[@Rosarium2007]

I remember once seeing a sketch of what The Brady Bunch house exterior would look like if it matched the interior layout used on the show. Let’s just say it was quite hilarious.

[@kno3730]

I was drawing plans by 11. Can’t remember how old I was when I first saw those floor plans in that country magazine, but I sat there and read them all! I was in love! And at age 39 next month, I’m looking up KZbin videos about construction and ways to sharpen my plans 🤦🏽‍♀️ I need to just go back to school. I can be an engineer!!

[@kno3730]

@@vtr279oh I loved the Sims! You guessed it! Because you get to build a house!! Ohhh I loved that game. Found a cheat code for money, all I did was build the house I didn’t care about the players 🤦🏽‍♀️ oh and legos?! I have sat there for hours as well, yep, building houses. One day Karell!

[@teeseeuu]

I just want to say, I've been a draftsman/BIM manager for 12 years, and your videos have convinced me to obtain architectural accreditation. Thank you!

[@alan.garcia.gonzalez]

This explanation of how architecture plans are achieved and how we get all the relevant information is key for learning how to develop an architecture project as a starter. We use to think that plans are more relevant than sections, but in reality a plan is a section itself. Your channel is fresh air for all of the architecture beginners, keep it up. Thanks for your content.

[@girishgholap90]

Its good to go back to basics.

[@stewarthicks]

Its always important to r emember and reconsider the basics!

[@jx_nathan]

as a young architect. this is beautifully explained....

[@waynemartin4881]

When I was a kid I bought loads of those house plan books, I loved imagining living in those beautiful houses, I even used to draw my own plans on the back of a roll of old wallpaper. I was quite good at mechanical drawing too but life and a few bad experiences had a different path for me. I hope to build my own house back in Ireland one day.

[@brentfisher6484]

Fun, fun...(and informative) video. Every budding architecture student, product rep and building code person should be made to watch Stewart's video! I too was smitten at an early age by building plans in those magazines and it led to my being able to understand, by age 9, plans for more complex commercial buildings that my family was involved with. I can't recall precisely when I first realized I was now fluent in these pages of lines and figures, but it definitely was rooted in the dreamy like aspect of gazing at magazines of house plans.

[@ejewart1450]

This kind of content is so diverse for KZbin too. I am no architect anx have zero interest in actually building a house, but I AM a horror author. How can one write a book about a haunted house without first knowing the layout of the house? Architecture and architectural plans can permeate into a staggering number of interests and fields, and you have done a wonderful job talking about them, you truly deserve more subscribers!

[@VocaFan4ever]

Finally an architecture channel that informs instead of impress

[@kappagrapes]

These videos are so charming and informative! Definitely one of the best resources I've ever found for my hobby of designing imaginary buildings.

[@bradleydilks6376]

House plan books were my comic books growing up. Still have a few pages of home plans that I liked but not sure how they have aged.

[@michaelowen8]

As an architecture student, I appreciate your inspirational and educational videos. They explain various aspects of architecture in a simple language.

[@glycerinfarmer]

This video is an excellent way to communicate to clients what they can expect from plans. Thanks!

[@hazed.gassan1952]

I do the same things like your mom when I was younger. Looking at plans for hours, visualizing all the spaces, like how lights would hit every nooks and corner, visualizing how the people would interact inside etc.

[@gavranarh]

Hey Stewart, I really enjoy your videos and the balance of approachability and substance you seem to dial in very well. Your essays are very well put together and for me it's consistently a pleasure to watch, even if I'm quite familiar with the subject. I think a good chunk of us would love to get more from you in maybe some less scripted, more off the cuff format so I'd enjoin you to maybe look into creating a Clubhouse club and get some activity going there - I'd love to eavesdrop and maybe some of us here have something interesting to contribute also. Thanks and keep making great stuff, it's highly recommendable.

[@stewarthicks]

Thank you for the suggestion. I don't currently have a clubouse invite. I started a discord server for my school but its not so active at the moment but I think keeping it UIC focused is probably the way to keep it. Is there a scenario you could imagine that would be on KZbin live?

[@0super]

Twitch might be worth looking into... but I agree, could be a fun format to think about!

[@stewarthicks]

@@0super Yeah, I've considered. Even worked through formats with Grant that could be a really fun exchange. We mocked up cool look OBS backgrounds/transitions and everything. I think its a matter of time available at this point.

[@mralexcheek]

This is fascinating! Can you do another video about how 3D modelling is changing how the next generation of architects think spatially?

[@matarratas7206]

Me at 1 am watching a beautiful man explaining architecture: Interesting.

[@Emilio743-e1h]

Wow, hahahahahahaha sooooooooo hilariously funny and true because you are not going to believe it but it was 1 a.m. that I began to see this video and read your comment, wow, hahahahahahaha! !

[@AskAW]

Wow. You're the real deal. At first, the algorithm sent me one of your videos and I didn't know you were a professor. Three videos later I see that you are trained in the art of making anything interesting. I'm glad you make these videos because people like me wouldn't have access to your content.

[@laxlvrfx]

Not only is Mr Hicks informative he is also very attractive which makes watching his Video post sooo satisfying .

[@Ty-vk8pb]

Your videos lately have been home-run after home-run. Really great content

[@stewarthicks]

Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm learning about the process and refining things each week. Glad you're enjoying it.

[@blaze595]

Was interesting seeing you go so in depth with explaining orthographic perspective... When I was first introduced to it for 3D modelling it pretty much just went: "Orthographics are drawings without perspective, so you can draw objects from different angles and have them line up." "Yeah cool, makes sense."

[@joefish6546]

I agree. It's weird there is so much focus. Is this because so many people come to the discipline from 3d rendering now? Because I learned to technical draw in 2d before adding perspective. But maybe that's because I'm a paper and pencil generation.

[@kevinmhadley]

I’m not sure how old I was when I first saw a set of architectural plans but I understood them right away. I knew at that point that I wanted to design houses and buildings for a living.

[@JordanSullivanadventures]

Fantastic video! I loved the whole digression about perspective and dolly zooms and the shadow tracing :)

[@Sal_car88]

Best video of architectural explained I've seen! Well done!

[@NM-dx6zw]

I became aware and interested of architecture the same way. My parents got a pile of books of house designs when I was 5-6 years old. I have always been very talented in dreaming so it came naturally for me to start imagining the life inside. Also I think it was a escapist way to start designing something that is completely outside your world. ever since to become an architect was my dream. I didn't become an architect. I love great architecture. In many cases it is not grand

[@KagomeMorino]

Sims games were my way into architecture. Building the house plans and drawing out the plans before I’d build in game. Took drafting in school then went to a tech school for it as well. Loved it.

[@Ratchet4647]

In my Algebra Course in Middle school we had a project to recreate our home in a floor plan drawing and then we were to create our dream home plan, first on graphing paper, then on Vellum paper and then in a small 3d model.

[@lydiahorvath8769]

I am so happy I came across your video series!

[@wassupcuhwatchumeancuh]

Thank you for this, I'm an incoming freshman of architecture program 😊

[@superadventure6297]

Those House Plans books!! I have one called "Home Designs-450 House Plans" which is from the 1970s that I looked at. My parents had it for inspiration for the house they built 30 yrs ago; but I was fascinated by it and drew plans and houses constantly. And also played the old Mario Bros lol. They gave me the book recently after finding it, I should do a vid on it just because all the awesome modern designs that nobody would build these days. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@nadstunes77]

Yes your a great teacher and I'm now hooked on your channel soo much great content...love it

[@jennisjohnvarghese1670]

Funny how your vid sprung at the exact time when I was searching for plans of the Farnsworth house after getting inspired from your open plans video for my first portfolio review

[@stewarthicks]

Timing!

[@harmscholtens9129]

Hello Stewart, great enjoyable and smart lessons! This is what students of today need! Nice to see some Dutch vibes:) Greetings from Rotterdam. Be welcome to shoot some images for future lessons here, I will be happy to show you around for some "funky liminal spaces" :) Greetings from an oversee colleague, Harm Scholtens (TU Delft)

[@stewarthicks]

Thanks for the warm welcome! I would love to visit.

[@Dumptheclutchevo]

This video is everything. It explains to me so many things about what I like in life, and brings them all together, when I hadn't even realised. Even down to 'poche' - I've always been fascinated with this, and had no clue it even had a name...Always thinking of secret rooms and hallways, within. I always used to 'read' those plan books, I'd look at them for hours, and used to love drawing orthographic everything, with the side view, front, and top down. Also, that brick building, the largest? there's a lot of old brick warehouses that must be close...will have to investigate this one! :) Great stuff, very informative yet not overly so as to lose the viewer, imho anyway. love it.

[@j_gate]

1:10 "apparently I was more into sections".... I like how you slipped that in there, very nice!

[@jakehay5308]

I had never considered the optical perspective of an orthographic drawing before. Great video!

[@drilongashi4193]

"... aparently, I was more into sections that I was into plans." loveeed it!

[@ZakBurrell]

Hi Champ I'm an architect with a large builder really enjoyed your breakdowns. Thankyou

[@stewarthicks]

Glad you enjoy them!

[@rawanalghamdi6042]

I just started my architectural Journey and this video helped me alot ! Thank you 🙏🏻

[@christopher-wolter]

Blown away at the beauty of Stewart. Crazy handsome man ❤️

[@SarahRenz59]

Stewart, I'm like your mom; I, too, like to look at home plans! My mother loved to go to new subdivisions and walk through the models. I called her "the Gene Siskel of the home-building world" (you're in Chicago, so you get that reference), because she'd voice a running critique as she toured the homes: "I'd switch these rooms...That's a terrible location for the stove...I love this laundry room..., " etc. A similar critique runs through my head when I look at floor plans! One current trend that has me baffled: In the master bedroom, you have to walk through the en suite bathroom to get to the closet. I see that in a LOT of newer home plans. What's up with that??

[@ABirdOnTheMoon]

This was educational and very interesting to watch ..

[@Rosarium2007]

As a child I became fascinated by the home plan books of the 1950s, 60s, & 70s, as well as the floor plans of the houses sold by Sears over a century ago now. I’m still fascinated by them but now I pin them to a board in Pinterest instead of taking up valuable bookshelf space with them. One thing hasn’t changed, imagining what alterations I would make.

[@CaffinatedDemon]

KZbin knows that I want to be an architect when I'm older, I have multiple books and sketch books for architecture, this helps me alot for my hopefully future career.

[@schlurpie]

i've been exposed to floor plans at a very young age. i used to watch my dad, who is an architect, manually draft the plans. and i had been browsing those house magazines and a few copies of architectural digest

[@rickemmet1104]

Good video Stewart! You said, "The things that tend to go unnoticed are precisely the things we should pay the most attention to." Certainly this is true in the houses most of us live in - tract homes. I was just trying to look up what percentage of tract homes adhere to the geometric proportions and the golden ratio that you have spoken of. How often do most of us actually experience proper design?

[@basilfettuccinesandoval9937]

thanks so much for the content! really hard to find architecture insight in the clear & concise manner in which you structure your videos.

[@tarkaallenstrachan]

Very well done! Thanks

[@0super]

Thank you for another wonderful video!

[@stewarthicks]

Thank _you_ for the kind comment!

[@hanagreg]

Amazing video!

[@leverett7069]

The only place I could be inspired without feeling bad about myself

[@angeldtrejo]

Awesome video. Thank you

[@Darrida]

In practice we use plans based on movement, Axial Analysis. I have grown up in house built by german prisoners after the war. They used Golden Section at every partitions of rooms and corridors.

[@lech000]

This is impressive to deal with a client but usually architects have no idea about real world, cost of material, technical specifications/ restrictions and future maintenance.

[@vincentgoupil180]

Dealing with clients is a critical time in a project. Without their consent and the bank's no cost of materials, technical specs, no job. No job, no need to hire an engineer and others.

[@jcc5018]

So, the plan at 11:23, is there a good reason for the abstract angles, or is that a result of someone simply trying to be different but not making the best use of space. I see at least 2 area that appear empty, and a few others with sharp corners that would also be unusable. Also, what's the software used at 8:48. It doesn't appear to be Revit, and definitely not AutoCAD

[@timcameron9023]

Thanks for this, really interesting information.

[@graysongfx]

Nice Work! Congratulations!

[@jovanno.372]

Your videos are amazing!

[@gizmo22ist]

I’m 40 and now I wanna be an architect after watching you teach lol great job

[@oskarwhite8155]

I like the comparison between 2D plans and the painting. What is really interesting is, in my opinion, that the most comprehensible painting is the one where the shadow is “false” the composition is way better. As an architect, I feel like atelier bow how is far ahead from anything other architects are doing for plans and sections. These are meant for communication and in that way, it is a form of art in it’s own

[@yiannifunataoldotcom]

What a great video!!!

[@mukmarkes4151]

The "riss" in Grundriss translate more to 'mark' than 'rip'/'cut'. When you mark a piece of metal for precise machining it is calles a 'Riss'. 'Grund' itself is a big word, translating to ground, soil, reason, foundation, bottom. Basically something that lies beneath things and supports something above it. So a full translation would be more like 'base mark' or 'ground mark'

[@stewarthicks]

Interesting…

[@cattail64]

When me and my boyfriend were looking at apartments, I always wanted to see the floorplans, id go and make the ones I liked into the sims to see how furniture might fit and look, but all he cared about was the pictures of the apartment. He always said he could tell more about a place based on the photos than a floorplan because he can't see them like that. But I can tell how id feel about living in a place unless I could see it top down. I thought it was weird since he's very analytical and can use his judgment very well. But it didn't make sense since the photos are going to be of the showroom anyways.

[@Celinestu333]

Haha thats kinda cute man Xd using sims to visualize

[@AlvaroVallesV1991]

Gran video, gracias!

[@foulcamel5973]

Amazing and helpful

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

I used to draw pictures of houses featuring floor plans when I was 5 years old. Good times. I wish some of my floor plans were saved.

[@simonvillalon2277]

Love the videos! And Super Mario brothers!

[@mangosgottatango3573]

Thank you for the informative video. Keep up the good work :D

[@FirstLastOne]

Please tell me that the 12:10 focus shift was intentionally done as part of what you were saying because if it wasn't, it sure felt as if it was even if the camera was having a difficult time tracking focus automatically.

[@PLANTA3D]

👍

[@raymondmuli9067]

Nice content. Thanks

[@vincentgoupil180]

There are different floor plans (horizontal sections). The presentation plan along with models, renderings, virtual walk throughs, to sell the client on the project to show the banks. If there's no visualization to latch onto its difficult to get the project off the ground. The plan as a legal document where every line means money. The Wonder Bread method of slicing the building into site, foundation, floor, HVAC, electrical, structural plans and so on. Remember seeing a 1900s floor plan along with elevations drafted with ink on silk. Plus, no dimension lines. The craftsman contracter was expected to know them by adding up the masonry stones for example. Sort of the CMU block modular dimension of 1'-4" or 16", length. So, if a block is nominally 8"x8"x16" then three block lengths equal 4'-0" and 4'-0" matches the width of a 4'-0" x 8'-0" plywood sheet to match studs placed at 16" (or 24") spacing on a 2'-0"x 2'-0" grid. Japanese mats play a similiar role in buildings. The trick is after the various floors plans are sliced apart to put them back together in a coherent whole without the rafters sitting on air two feet above the top of the masonry wall. Learned architects along with engineers have no 3-D imagination. Really Except Antonio Gaudi ... genuflect :) P.s. Plug for Edwin Abbott's book "Flatland" as an aid for visualizing scanning thru a building. A point is a line with no dimension, a line is a moving point, an area is a line moving sideways, a volume is an area moving sideways, a moving volume is a hyperspace entity and on and on ... or, a circle or ellipse is the shadow of a sphere. Nice explanation Stewart of a floor plan without thinking in perspective. Ominous Perhaps an explanation of Baroque architecture and descriptive geometry?

[@joodjood2138]

Nice explanation

[@thirdworld4926]

Thanks for the awesome vid.

[@Rhinoch8]

"The kinds of things that tend to go unnoticed are precisely the things that we should pay the most attention to." Let that sink in for a minute.

[@alexandersibilio7436]

Great video!!...I bet it will be very intriguing to explore ancient housing architectures from differents cultures in future videos😉!! If I'm allow to be picky @ 2:32 those images aren't from Egypt, but from Mesopotamia🙏😅

[@bengorraou2602]

great video

[@drr5117]

Another inspiring video. Can you recommend an inexpensive floor plan software for non architects/ contractors?

[@thebear1994]

my favorite plan view is the reflected ceiling plan it imagines a view from the ground of the ceiling but to fit with all the other plans it is reflected once in each direction so that you can lay it out from the floor

[@FirstLastOne]

Much like hashi (chopsticks), I never 'learned' to use/read architectural plans, I just somehow knew. Seeing them can cause me to be late for whatever I was doing because I tend to fall right into them as if I was walking through the already built building. I can visualize the space, the light and almost to some degree the ambiance that might be there even though I have no clue where the location is or the direction the building mainly faces. What books are to most people for entertainment, architectural plans are for me.

[@k.williams9846]

Great video.

[@joseville]

5:08 this is when the dolly zoom clicked for me lol.

[@JeremySalterXIV]

Well done

[@fabiandoe6132]

I really appreciated your explanations. For beginners, you can try with the archiplain software.

[@christophercasey7388]

My understanding is that the working drawings are a contract (thus a "contractor"), telling the builder all the dimensions, materials, their relationship, etc.

[@paolaquintero5256]

Thanks for this video helped a lot! would like to see how to create the concept and the diagram of spaces

[@GeorgeNicola]

Great. How do you make these animated arrows and text?

[@jaspermolenaar1218]

Very nice examples and animations! Being Dutch, I wonder what ‘Dutch Vibe’ refers to (11:35)?

[@Chisscaso]

Love your videos. Been learning alot. Can you please do a video explaining how physical modeling can be a better design tool than 3d modeling. Thanks.

[@anniestumpy9918]

where can I buy those books you mentioned in the beginning? I'm obsessed with flour plans in a similar way you described your mother was 🥰

[@joe12321]

Is there some advantage to thinking of it as a 4-foot cut as seen from Infinity versus an outline at floor level with projections of the elements above? I suppose the 4-foot cut would leave out, for instance, small high windows. Is there a benefit to that?

[@stewarthicks]

4' is about at your chest level and aligns with the large part of your vision. It's also low enough to miss soffits or things like that.

[@pcatful]

Having spent my life in "plans" this is a nice summary of the thought of plan making. To me I can look at a plan with a few annotations and I don't need much else to imagine the building. I forget sometimes that to others this is not enough information. I have moved to 3d draiwing but the plan is much better to work out the information that the builder will need. The builder starts with a plane, the ground, and once the plan is described, the builder can complete a house of the style or type of construction that is to be used, and to which he or she is accustomed. A 3d picture is fine for the impression but not so good for the facts about a building.

[@gehadfouda7660]

So Beautiful 💗

[@caydenallura3363]

5:50 Can I please get context? Was the name mentioned "Italea Bawwaw"? Could you please identify the firm and its name. I would like to see some of its drawings.

[@stewarthicks]

Atelier Bow Wow

[@caydenallura3363]

@@stewarthicks Thank you boss

[@vincentgoupil180]

@@caydenallura3363 Did you just call Stewart a sorry son of a b*tch ? :) s.s.o.b. = b.o.s.s. (boss)

[@ivanweissbein5253]

Borromini brought all the university nostalgia to the moment :)

[@ivanaramburo4030]

Great video Stewart! If I may ask where do you get your 3d models from, table, chairs, etc, When using rhino ?

[@adizharif3883]

Props to the sims 4 montage :D

[@jakezepeda1267]

The lines on the paper make more sense than some of the decisions made.

[@xenprovence6126]

With the submission of architectural plans to a review body, I’m wondering if you could explain where the public’s right to criticize a proposed project originated? “Zoning submittal set”versus “construction documents”. A planning and zoning submittal set is for the planning department to approve your project before a design review board. It may be interesting to Analyze zoning submittal plans and their use in reviewing a proposed project, criticism by neighbors and review boards.