QUIZ NO.

1 Directions: Identify what is referred to in each

number. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

______1. The outline and measurements of the

proposed building and its placement on the property.
______ 2. The legal restrictions on size, location, and
type of structures to be built on a designated area.
______ 3. A piece of ground of specific size.
_______ 4. Local laws that set standard for structural
design within the community.
___5. Designed to keep different areas of a
community from interfering with each other.
___6. Space requirement from the lot line along
the street.
___7. The distance at how far a building can be
built within the property lines.
___8.Space requirement of walls with window
opening from the lot line of fence.
___9.Space requirement to each other of
adjacent houses according to National Building
Code.
___10. Lines which are working on the outside of
the lot area.
Interior Zones and Floor Plans
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 Technical Terms Encountered In Drafting Floor Plans
Bathroom- is where the toilet and tub or shower are separated for eas
installation of pipes. 
Bedroom- is a room for sleeping and for taking a rest. 
Carport- is a garage consists of a free-standing roof complete
separated from the house, or it may be built against the existing walls o
the house with one or more of the exterior walls removed.
Garage- is an enclosed structure designed primarily to shelter an
automobile. 
Kitchen- is the place where foods are prepared. 
Livingroom- is the center of the living area in most homes. 
Main Entrance- provides access to the house. It is the one through
which guests are welcomed. It provides shelter to anyone awaiting
entrance.
Service Entrance- provides access to the house through which supplies
can be delivered to the service areas.
 3 Basic Interior Zones
 1 – Living and Social
Area
– Living room, dining
room, family room,
game room, great
rooms, entry ways,
porches, dining etc.
 Sleeping/Private

 Bedroom, Bathroom,
Closets and Dressing
rooms.
 Service/Work
 Kitchen, Garage,
Office, Basement,
Utility/Laundry room.
 Service Entrance
 Service entrances should be located near
the kitchen and basement stairs.
 Work Triangle
 Is the route from the center of
the sink, to the center of the
stove to the center of the
refrigerator and back to the
sink.
 Smaller work triangles will
save steps.
 For safety reasons there
should be no cross traffic.
Cross traffic can cause spills
and other accidents.
 Draw this in on your floor plan
 Traffic or Circulation Path
 The route that people follow as they move
from one place to another.
 3-4 Feet should be allowed for circulation
paths.
 Types – Family, Work & Service, Guest
 Good Family Circulation
 Bathrooms should be close to bedrooms.
 Indoor living next to outdoor living area’s
 Other related rooms close to each other.
 High use routes should be short and simple.

 Closed floor plans separate rooms

 Open floor plans have less walls, save on cost of
building materials, and home feels more spacious
 Other Aspects of Good Work
Circulation
 Easy access to Ask yourself these Questions
Can the cook prepare a meal without
the basement, worrying about constantly walking into
garage and someone going by?
If people can eat in their rooms or living
storage areas. areas, can they get there without leaving a
trail through the entire house?
 Clothes care If you spend a lot of time grilling outside on
the patio, is it convenient to the inside food
center in a prep area?
convenient Do you have to walk through to the other
end of the house to reach the outdoor grill?
location. Can you bring the groceries right in from
the outside without having to go through
the living room?
 Guest Circulation
 Entry, living, dining, powder room or ½ bath not in
private area’s of the home, porches, patios,
entertainment rooms.
 Ask Yourself
 How to guests travel to the living room when you are
entertaining?
 Do they have to go through private areas of your
home?
 How do they get to the powder room?
 Is the kitchen handy for serving food and drinks to your
guests when you are entertaining?
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 Important Room Relationships
 Bathroom & Bedroom
 Kitchen & Dining
 Mudroom & Garage
 Garage & Kitchen
 Kitchen and outdoor living space
 Living and dining areas
 Can you think of others?
 Birds eye-view
 A view drawn as seen from the perspective
of a bird flying and looking down.
 How to Draw
Traffic Patterns
 Draw the
traffic
pattern on
the floor
plan on
your note
taking
guide
 Types of drawings in a set of
Blueprints
 Floor plan
 Types of drawings in a set of
Blueprints
 Elevation
PERFORMANCE TASK
PLATE #7
PERFORMANCE TASK
PLATE #8
PERFORMANCE TASK
PLATE #9
PERFORMANCE TASK
PLATE #10
 Steps in Drawing Floor Plans
1. Layout the position of exterior and interior walls. Refer to Rule VIII of the New National
Building Code under the 2005 Implementing Rules & Regulations (No. 7)
2. Add the thickness of the walls with a hard pencil (Don’t darken the walls at this stage).
3. Locate the position of doors and windows by center line and by their width.
4. Darken the object lines with an F pencil.
5. Add door and window symbols with 2H pencil.
6. Add symbols for stairwells.
7. Erase extra heavy lines that can be perceive as object lines.
8. Draw the outline of the furniture and fixtures.
9. Add symbols for any masonry work such as planters if necessary.
10.Dimension the drawing.
 
 Rules for Dimensioning Floor Plans 
1. Architectural dimension lines are unbroken lines with dimension placed above
 the lines. Arrowheads, dash, small circles and diagonal are used to denote the termination of the dimension
line. Arrowheads may also be placed outside the extension lines when the area is too narrow or limited.
1. Dimensions should be placed to read from the right or from the bottom of the drawing. The measurements
should always be written above the dimension lines.
2. Dimension lines are placed about 10 mm. apart. Overall dimensions of the building are placed outside all other
dimensions.
3. Rooms are dimensioned from the center line of partitions. In some cases, they maybe dimensioned from wall
to wall, exclusive of wall thickness.
4. In dimensioning stairs, the number of risers is placed on a line with an arrow indicating the direction (up or
down).
5. Architectural dimensions always refer to the actual size of the building regardless of the scale of the drawing.
6. Never crowd dimensions. To free the plan of excessive dimensions, the sizes of doors and windows are given
in the door and window schedule.
7. Refrain from double entry dimensions and omit obvious dimensions.
 Doors and Windows in Plan

1. Show normally swinging doors at 90 degrees opening.

2. Doors swing are shown with light lines and quarter symbols.
3. Door type is not illustrated in plan, only in elevation.
4. Windows type cannot be explained in plan except for width and location.
 Show sill lines with a lighter line weight than walls, jambs and glass
QUIZ #2 A. Directions :Read each item carefully. Choose the letter of the answer
and write it on a separate sheet of paper.
1.A part of the house where sometimes used for eating and relaxing.
a. porch b. living area c. bedroom d. dining area 
2.It provides for and controls the flow of traffic into and out of a building.
a. special purpose exit b. door c. entrance d. exit door
3.This room is generally located between the bedrooms.
a. bathroom b. dining area c. kitchen d. foyer 
4.This has an access to kitchen and living room.
a. bathroom b. dirty kitchen c. dining hall d. dining area 
B. Essay. 
§Explain the significance of "kitchen work triangle" in designing a kitchen.
Architectural
Drafting
Design
Standards
 Legal provisions:

Section 806 of the National Building Code (NBC). Size and Dimension of
Rooms: 
a.Room for human habitations should be 6.00 square meters with at least a
dimension of 2.00 meters.
b.Kitchens should be 3.00 square meters with at least a dimension of 1.50meters.
c. Bath & Toilet – 1.20 square meters with at least dimension of 0.90 meters.
 Section 1207. Stairs, Exit, and
Occupant Loads. 
Width and Height. Every required exit doorway shall have a size to permit the
installation of a door not less than 900 mm./90 cm. in width and not less than
2.00 meters in height. 
Stairways width. Stairway serving an occupant load of more than 50 shall not be
less than 1.10 meters. While stairway serving an occupant load of 50 or less shall
be 900 millimeters wide.
Rise and run. The rise of every step in a stairway shall not exceed 200
millimeters and the run shall not be less than 250 millimeters.
 Other guidelines must be observed in the
arrangement of rooms in drawing floor plan:
1. Built-in cabinets or closets are usually found in the bedrooms, kitchen,
and
dining room. Open shelves may be constructed in the kitchen and dining
room.
2. In some one-storey houses, the bedrooms toilet, and bath are
elevated from the other rooms. In this case, the stairs leading to these
rooms must be indicated on the floor plan. Two or three steps, each has
18 cm. or 19 cm. high from each other and 25 cm wide, may be shown in
the plan. All these measurements must be drawn to scale.
3. Since most of the time is spent by the members of a family in the
bedrooms at home, these rooms must be located far from noise, dust, and
polluted air coming from garbage pits or from the kitchens and toilets of
the neighboring houses.
4. If furniture and house appliances are to be shown in each room, these
furnishings should be drawn on the same scale in the floor plan.
5. If the floor plan will be traced on tracing paper in order to
indicate the electrical or water connections, these
furnishings should not be shown on the tracing.
 6. In presentation drawings, the landscaping around the floor
plan may be added.
7. It is on the floor plan where the cutting plane lines for at
least two full-sectional elevations (cross and longitudinal)
are indicated. These sectional elevations are usually labeled
as Section A-A and Section B-B, depending on the capital
letter used at the extremities of the cutting plane lines.
These cutting plane lines need not be continuous or
straight. They are often drawn in colored ink. ( see
illustration)
8. Window and Door symbols should be indicated in the
outer walls of the floor plan opposite to door and window
Entrance and Exit. There shall be at least one
entrance and another one for exit. Windows
opening should be 10% of the total floor square
area according to the National Building Code.
Example:  
Bedroom size of 3.00m. x 4.00 m. = 12 square
meters x 10% = 1.20m. window width opening.
Concrete Hollow Blocks (CHB) for Walling and
Partitions
Sizes:
• CHB - 0.10 T x 0.40 W. x 0.20 H. (4” T x 16”W x
8”H) is used for interior
walls or sometimes exterior wall with no heavy
loads. 
• CHB - 0.15 x 0.20 x 0.40 (6” x 8” x 16”) is used
for exterior wall sometimes for interior wall.
• Plastering of CHB wall should not be less than
0.015 mm. or not more than to 0.05 cm in thickness.
Wall openings:
Entrance door- is preferably with 0.90 cm. to
1.00 m. width.
Bedroom door- has a minimum width of 0.80
cm.
Toilet and Bath door- have a minimum width
of 0.70 cm. to 0.80 cm.
Minimal width of windows- is preferably 0.60
cm.
 QUIZ #3 Direction:Choose the letter of the best answer and write
it on a separate sheet of paper.
 1. It is the standard thickness of wall in meter using 4” x 16” x 8”
CHB .
a. 0. 20 m.b. 0.10 m. c. 0.18 m. d. 0.13 m. 
2. Standard thickness of wall in meter using 6” x 16” x 8” CHB.
a. 0. 20 m.b. 0.10 m. c. 0.20 m.d. 0.18 m. 
3. It is the standard size of an entrance door opening.
a. 0.90 m. b. 0.80 m.c. 0.75 m. d. 1.00 m. 
4. They are overhang roof lines in hidden lines form of floor plan.
a. dormer b. canopy c. eave line d. shed line
5. It is a minimum area of kitchen.
a. 4.00 sq.m. b. 3.00 sq.m. c. 5.00 sq.m. d. 7.00 sq.m
 
B.Direction: Draw the symbols of the following:
   
Door/Window Symbol
 
   
 
 
6. Interior Door
 

   
 
 
7. Swinging Door
 

   
 
 
8. Double Door
 

   
 
 
9. Accordion Door
 

   
 
 
10. Bay Window