Architectural Diagrams
Stacking Diagram: How to Allocate Uses Floor by Floor
A stacking diagram assigns each use in a brief to a level, and gives total area and building height. How to build one,...
Sinan Ozen6 Mins read
Figure-Ground Diagram: How to Draw and Read Urban Fabric
A figure-ground diagram reduces a city to built mass against open space. How to read it, put a number on it, draw it...
Sinan Ozen7 Mins read
Sun Path Diagram: How to Read One and Use It in Design
A sun path diagram shows where the sun sits all year for one latitude. How to read it, plot obstructions, and size an...
Sinan Ozen8 Mins read
Matrix Diagram in Architecture: How to Map Space Adjacencies
A matrix diagram, or adjacency matrix, maps how every space in a building should relate before you draw a plan. This guide covers...
Sinan Ozen8 Mins read
Shopping Mall Bubble Diagram: A Step by Step Retail Planning Guide
A practical guide to the shopping mall bubble diagram: placing anchors so shoppers pass the most frontage, drawing the mall street, attaching food...
illustrarch Editoral Team8 Mins read
Kindergarten Bubble Diagram: A Step by Step Guide for Preschool Layouts
A practical guide to the kindergarten bubble diagram: garden access for every group room, supervision sightlines, attached sanitary facilities, and the adjacency rules...
illustrarch Editoral Team7 Mins read
Exploded Diagram Architecture: What It Is and How to Draw One
An exploded diagram in architecture lifts a building into its real assembly order so structure, skin, space, and services each read on their...
Elif Ayse Sen6 Mins read
Understanding Architectural Functional Relationship Diagrams: A Practical Guide
Functional relationship diagrams are essential planning tools that architects use during the programming and schematic design phases to map how spaces connect, interact,...
Sinan Ozen9 Mins read
Architectural Zoning Diagrams: A Practical Guide for Architects
Architectural zoning diagrams are schematic drawings that group a building's spaces by function, showing how zones like public, private, and service areas relate...
Sinan Ozen11 Mins read
