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Taka Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Design
Does 'to lay out the building' mean the same as 'to design the building'?
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Loosely, yes, if all you mean is how the rooms are arranged.
- Loosely, yes, if all you mean is how the rooms are arranged.
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But it doesn't really mean 'to draft the design for the building', does it?
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I am not an architect, so I hesitate to say more, and I don't know exactly what you mean by "draft the design". To my mind, designing a building entails much more than laying it out. You have to choose fixtures, model ornamentation, provide for utilities, give precise dimensions and specs, and select every component from nails to elevators. When I hear "lay out", I see a drawing showing only parti
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enoonI am not an architect, so I hesitate to say more, and I don't know exactly what you mean by "draft the design"What I meant was making a blueprint of the building.
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To lay out the building could mean several things:
To indicate on the ground the limits of the building prior to beginning construction work (the design work is long completed before this is done, and the final drawings are used to lay out the building limits on the ground).
To make very rough preliminary sketches of the building, primarily in relation to the limits it will o
To indicate on the ground the limits of the building prior to beginning construction work (the design work is long completed before this is done, and the final drawings are used to lay out the building limits on the ground).
To make very rough preliminary sketches of the building, primarily in relation to the limits it will o
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