What Makes the Architectural Sections Important Part of Architectural Services?

The House Architects
2 min readFeb 16, 2021

Each architectural drawing is having its own purpose. It could have to explain the necessary proportions, display the dimensions, and provide details regarding the materials. Likewise, an architectural drawing can tell the story to be built up. On the basis of this very story, the artistry is evaluated on its effectiveness. So, the architects invest a lot of effort into the architectural drawings.

The Sections Are Extremely Helpful For Understanding the Relationships Between Levels

The typical sections of the architectural views are drawn in such a way that shows the vertical and horizontal lines. Through the drawings, the architects can display the spaces placed on the slab of the ground, apart from the volumes situated at either end. The horizontally split volumes help in understanding the above space has a higher ceiling compared to the spaces below, owing to the silhouette’s inclusion in the upper level of the right-hand side volume.

Sections included in the architectural services are extremely useful to understand the relationships existing between and across the level, similar to the user flows in UX designs.

Clearly Understanding the Architectural “Sections”

A particular useful drawing type is termed the architectural section. The drawing of the vertical cut through the building or the building’s area is the section. The section has a purpose for graphically showing the building’s main volumes as well as the material components of the main building. The necessary dimension lines and notes are attached for clarity to the section cuts.

The motive behind producing a useful section is cutting through the building’s most typical volumes. This is indeed helpful to the viewers in understanding the structure as a whole along with the mapped relationships between the spaces.

Added to the general building section, more types of sections are drawn. These include:

  • Sectional Elevations — The drawings showing the cut as well as the features beyond the particular cut which are normally drawn in thinner lines. Thus, the viewers can understand the volumes present in the foreground against the other volumes beyond.
  • Sectional Perspectives — The sectional perspectives are the drawings showing the cross-sections and then the perspectives of the spaced beyond. The sectional perspectives are very expressive and informative.
  • Section Details — The section details are small drawings which are the small part of the larger drawing sections, which are zoomed in for showing more details regarding the materials being combined together.

The architects deliver the drawings for the architectural services, which deliver. As all the architectural drawings are having a role in the construction and renovation projects, so the architects are creating the images, which give the necessary precise and concise information to the stakeholders and builder. The architects can get it done in a visually pleasing way.

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