Sunday 24 November 2013

Sections and Elevations

The original plans for Balintore Castle do exist, but I have only ever seen a small and indistinct photocopy. Many thanks to friend of Balintore  Duncan Tattersall for these high resolution scans. I particularly love the sections which show how the internal features of the building relate to the outside, which is at core the "smarts" of architecture.


Plan 6 - West Elevation
Plan 7 South and North Elevations

Plan 8 East Elevation
Plan 9 Sections
Plan 10 Sections

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting the drawings. I'm a draftsman m'self and can often learn more about a building from drawings than from 1,000,000 pix. Hope you don't mind if I download them just to enlarge & examine details. I've been following your progress w great interest as I wish I had started something like this before got my arse crippled up.

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  2. Hi Randy, download away! They are fairly high resolution once you click on them. The original scans are slightly higher resolution yet. I had a year crippled by a bad back and could not have attempted a castle then. Fortunately, an operation sorted me out, and I appreciate the castle all the more because of this, naturally I lift heavy things with great care nowadays. Thanks for your interest.

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  3. Amazing! Interesting how the original missing window was a bay with full support underneath, and without the sloping roof.

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