Floor plan in layman’s terms can be described as a pictorial representation of the rooms of the Structure built to scale either in 2 dimensional or in 3 dimensional formats. It is a visual representation of the building conveyed to the person who views it in a pictorial format so that the person is able to understand it better.

All the facts related to the structure are spelt out very clearly to the viewer as such. Room length, width, thickness of the wall, relationship between the rooms and the placement of the windows, doors their dimensions are all represented in the floor plans. It can be either of one level of the structure or of many levels showing each level in detail.

The floor plan covers minute details such as the placement of the racks in kitchen and other rooms. They also cover other details such as the wall finish, type of electrical sockets, electrical circuits and joint wiring schematics and diagrams.

The floor plan can be best understood by viewing the drawing and segregating it layer by layer cross-sectional and viewing each layer separately. In architecture “plan “or cross sectional view may be defined as the way the Structure looks and feels from inside. Cross sectional view is a type of view when you cut a structure or a building in the middle along any one of the axis.

While construction of a structure or a buildings there are many types of plans which are used to depict all the features in a building completely in 2 dimensional formats. They are

master plan which gives details regarding the built up area, constructed area apart from the total area of the plot and the carpet area. Apart from that you have the frontal view which shows the frontal structure of the building in detail.

To understand the interiors in detail one would need a cross-sectional view which in detail gives us the interior room structure in detail. It can be also know as the ceiling reflected view since we would be seeing the structure as seen from the ceiling.