FLOOR PLAN
FEATURES
FLOOR PLAN
• Floor plan is the top cross-sectional view
of the floor area of a house.
• The horizontal cutting plane line for this
top view passes between the upper and
lower window sills or one meter above the
floor line.
• It shows the size and arrangement of the
rooms. It also presents the sizes and
locations of the stairs, door and windows
openings, and partitions and walls.
• However, the materials required for
constructing permanent or integral parts
of each room such as bedroom closets,
kitchen cabinets, etc., should also be
accounted for in the bill of materials.
• In multi-storey buildings, a separate
floor plan is drawn for each floor level
when the layout of the room is not in
each floor. However, when two or
more floor levels have the same
arrangement and features, one
typical floor plan representing all the
identical floors will suffice to be
drawn.
Room Requirements and pointers
in planning a floor plan
1. Living Room - is the center of the living
area in most homes. It should be centrally
located and should be adjacent to the
outside entrance and to the dining area,
but the entrance should not lead directly
into the living room.
• Recommended sizes should be at least
2.00m x 3.00 small, 3.7m. x 5.5m. average
or optimum size would be 6.1 x 7.9 m. in
rectangular shape.
2. Bedroom - is a room for sleeping and
taking rest of the family. Ideal number of
rooms for low cost housing should be two
bedrooms, master’s bedroom and bedroom.
• Preferably, there should be a toilet and
bath in master’ bedroom and a built-in
cabinets or closets.
3. Dining Area - is the area where greatly
depend on eating habits of the occupants.
• This should be located between the living
room and kitchen.
• Its size and shape are determined by the
size of the family
4. Kitchen - is the place for preparation of
food and connecting the work triangle area
for storage and mixing center, preparation
and cleaning center and cooking center.
• There should be a storage hanging kitchen
cabinet with a minimal width of 0.60
meter.
Types of Kitchen
1. U-shaped kitchen
U-shaped kitchen
2.L-shaped type
L-shaped type
3. Corridor Type
Corridor Type
5. Bathroom - is where the toilet and tub
or shower are separated to save
economically in plumbing. As much as
possible keep the toilet near 70 the
kitchen.
• The bath and toilet must be near the
bedrooms, accessible to the living room
even without passing through other
rooms.
• The toilet and bath are generally located
between bedrooms. In a two-storey
residential house, the bedrooms, toilet,
and bath are often located on the second
floor. The toilet and bath are generally
located between bedrooms. In a two-storey
residential house, the bedrooms, toilet,
and bath are often located on the second
floor.
Bathroom Doors and Windows
Bathroom door could be small as 55- 60
cm. except for utility bathroom which
requires not less than 70.cm. wide to allow
passage of equipment as required. In
general, bathroom wall contain only one
door.
6. Entrances - divided into several
different types; the main entrance, the
service entrance, and the special- purpose
entrance.
• The entrance is composed of an outside
waiting area like the porch, marquee or
lanai and an inside waiting area like foyer
or entrance hall.
The main entrance provides access to the
house. It is the one through which guests
are welcomed and from which all major
traffic patterns radiate. The main entrance
should be readily identifiable. It should
provide shelter to anyone awaiting
entrance.
The service entrance provides access to
the house through which supplies can be
delivered to the service areas going through
other parts of the house. It should also
provide access to parts of the service area
like the garage, laundry or workshop.
The special-purpose entrances and exits
do not provide for outside traffic. Instead
they provide for movement from the inside
living area of the house to the outside living
areas. A sliding door from the living area to
the patio is a special-purpose entrance. It
is not an entrance through which street,
drive, or sidewalk traffic would have an
access.
7. Garage and Carports
A garage is an enclosed structure designed
primarily to shelter an automobile. It
maybe used for many secondary purposes
– as a workshop, as a laundry, or for
storage space. It is usually attached to the
house in some manner to provide a
sheltered entry.
A carport is a garage with one or more of
the exterior walls removed. It may consist
of a free-standing roof completely separate
from the house, or it may be built against
the existing walls of the house.
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 1.50 meters.
• 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
millimeters 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 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 furnitures 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.
• 8. Windows and Doors symbols should be
indicated in the outer walls of the floor plan
opposite to door and windows openings to
determine the total number and
specification.
• 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 40.00 = 12 square
meters x 10% = 1.20m window width
opening.
• 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.
• Other appliances and fixtures are required
to be drawn in the floor plan for space
requirements
• Eave lines are hidden roof lines which also
indicated in the floor plan.
• Trees, Plants symbols are required to be
drawn in the development of site plan if
needed.
