Site Plan
Map out your home's location and terrain with this invaluable rendering
A site plan is a drawing of the overall project site as it will be when the project is completed. The site plan identifies all of the site's features, including topography, trees, solar orientation, water and drainage. The site plan also indicates where the home will be located and any driveways or walkways that will be built to access the home. Pools, patios, decks, pergolas and gardens are also shown on a site plan.
In addition to showing the home on its site, a site plan used for construction shows changes to the existing site's features. For example, any topography sculpting will be indicated.
Site plans can also be used as illustrations to convey how several buildings on a site will function and relate to one another.
Site plans remind us that the design of a house doesn't stop at the outside walls. How the interior rooms relate to the exterior "rooms" is as important as anything that goes on inside.