In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan, or floorplan, is a drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces and other physical features at one level of a structure.
Dimensions are usually drawn between the walls to specify room sizes and wall lengths. Floor plans may also include details of fixtures like sinks, water heaters, furnaces, etc. Floor plans may include notes for construction to specify finishes, construction methods, or symbols for electrical items.
It is also called a "plan" which is a measured plane typically projected at the floor height of 4', as opposed to an "elevation" which is a measured plane projected from the side of a building, along its height, or a section or "cross section" where a building, is cut along an axis to reveal the interior structure.
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“Four and twenty at her back
And they were a’ clad out in green;
Tho the King of Scotland had been there
The warst o’ them might hae been his Queen.
On we lap and awa we rade
Till we cam to yon bonny ha’
Whare the roof was o’ the beaten gold
And the floor was o’ the cristal a’.”
—Unknown. The Wee Wee Man (l. 21–28)
“Make a plan and you will find she has something else in mind;”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)