BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – THE BIG PICTURES
COMMERCIAL DRAWINGS, including Wheelchair Ramp Plans
"Our work was soon to start on a new house near Austin. Sure enough, we got a set of plans for a house put up nearby where we'd be working. It had a goodly number of sheets, and the paper was bigger than notepad scrap. Those were the plan's virtues." AG
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Commercial design is fish and foul - it has elements of residential design and elements of industrial design; nevertheless, any way you work commercial design, more and more, wheelchair ramp plans - their design, their accommodation - are increasingly prevalent. Residentially, albeit it twisted around a bit, one must address business functionality most often in a retail setting. Pretty counts, along with safety and convenience. Industrially, backrooms are designed for doing it safely, productively, efficiently, flexibly. These latter points are all straight from the industrial design argot.
We've dealt at length with the nature and character of commercial design elsewhere in Commercial Leasehold Improvement, Tutorial and Electrical Wiring Diagram, and herewith refer you dear visitor to that section to pursue your interests herein further.
Following are a couple of commercial designing jobs for which we were commissioned. Note in each that the complexities of design are tailored, even unique, to the given situations. In the first, physical accessibility of the B&B entrance played an overarching role in almost all this design. In the second, the sole focus on fully, accurately, usefully communicating matters important solely to a floor display layout subcontractor are of singular attention.
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Commercial Concept. Our client planned through several stages of a B&B modification of and later addition to their private residence. Their first need from Before The Architect was concept drawings of their chosen, public entryway. As it was, in the Before pic, it was bare bones unappealing. We altered that look totally, effectively, efficiently. A key ingredient in this heavily annotated After pic is the need for accessibility to the main exterior passage, including wheelchair ramp plans. |
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Commercial Display Floor Plan. This client wholesaled a line of both custom home building and finish merchandise, and decided to go emphatically retail with their major brand of finish goods. The goods' manufacturer subcontracts retail sales, floor-loaded and wall-mounted sales modules for both custom home building, layout, delivery, and installation. We were asked to draw a floor plan suitable for the subcontractor's layout work. |
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Commercial Interior Design. While neither of us knew exactly what an Equipment Schedule should look like, we realized in searching the web and asking around that it's a term of art not trade, and then having been told point-blank that a DOA Equipment Schedule was whatever the DOA officer said it was and he wasn't saying, we winged it. Before The Architect developed our client's pencil sketch into these drawings that got him where he's going now . . . past a road-block hassle and soon to be open for business. |
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