Custom House Plans, Luxury Residential Designs:
What Do They Mean? What Are House Plans? What Is It That Your Residential Architect Actually Creates?
There is a lot of slang used to describe what it is your architect creates for your home. Some people refer to them simply as “plans.” Others say floor plans or house plans. Rarely does anyone say what the legal description is: Schematic Design, Design Development & Construction Documents, per the AIA (Amercian Institute of Architects). That is a mouthful, so I guess it is no surprise that the public at large has invented shorter phrases to describe what it is architects do when they create the design and construction documents for a home.
Drawings are usually produced on computer these days, regardless of whether you call them house plans or construction documents, and it takes a lot of skilled human design involvement.
