Scale

Scale

Once you have your sketch with certain measurements it will be the time to think about the scale. We will ALL be drawing floor plans to scale (B4). And when we get to Criterion C, some of you will be making models to scale and others 3D models.

What is scale?

Why do we need scale?

In real life our room or houses are very big, so…  how are we going to fit it in our A3 paper (29.7 x 42.0 cm)

Task 1. Decide what scale you will be working on 

If you want an introduction to scale, because you don’t remember well you can check here to review your geometry from grade 7.

This is an example on how scale works for a container house to be transfered to a 30×30 board:

For our project, we are going to look at the most common scales:

What scale will you use?

Task 2. Add both sizes to your drawing