Practice question · True or false
A plan is a horizontal cut through the building, so what is drawn solid is what the cut passes through.
Hints
- Ask what happens to a doorway above the level of the cut.
- It is shown by convention rather than drawn as solid.
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True
Why
True, and it is the single most useful fact for reading architectural drawings. The cut is taken at roughly waist height; walls and columns it passes through are drawn solid, and anything above or below is shown by convention. Reading a plan as a picture of the floor makes every plan unintelligible.
Practise Architecture II: Reading a Building
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More questions on Architecture II: Reading a Building
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