Drawing

Stage 2
Summary

Drawings translate ideas into instructions. They turn something imagined into something buildable, defining form, dimensions, relationships, and intent. Without drawings, a house cannot be understood, shared, or brought into reality.

Phase:
(Instruction)
Loop:
Stage 2
The Detail

A drawing is the first moment a house becomes real.

Before this, it exists only in conversation and imagination — intangible, fluid, uncertain. A drawing gives the idea form. It allows it to be seen, tested, and shared. It is not just a picture of a house.

It is a set of decisions made visible.

Every line has meaning. Every dimension carries intent.

Drawings describe relationships — between walls and openings, inside and outside, light and structure. They define size, position, and proportion. They allow many people — designers, builders, engineers, and clients — to understand the same thing without ambiguity. The drawing becomes a common language.

There is no single drawing. A house is described through many.

Plans show the arrangement of space from above — how rooms connect and flow.
Sections cut through the house to reveal volume, height, and internal relationships.
Elevations describe the external form — what the house presents to the world.
Details zoom in closer, resolving how materials meet, how edges end, how the house is actually assembled.

Together, these drawings form a complete instruction set.

But drawings do more than instruct construction. They clarify thinking. They allow ideas to be tested before anything is built. Problems can be discovered early. Decisions can be refined.

The house can evolve safely on paper.

Nothing is accidental. The quality of the drawing shapes the quality of the house.

The drawing is where imagination becomes precise.

It is where the house becomes buildable.

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