Floor Plan with Laid-Out Wall Elevations: Lady Williams Wynne’s Room, St James’s Square

Floor Plan with Laid-Out Wall Elevations: Lady Williams Wynne’s Room, St James’s Square Adam Vol. 40/70

Another kind of drawing is the floor plan with laid-out wall elevations. It is a combination of a plan for a single room with the internal elevations of the walls shown, as if it were a box with the walls flattened open. Sometimes the ceiling would also be shown on this kind of drawing.

This sort of drawing is easy for the client to understand and cheaper than a model. This is a drawing by Robert Adam’s office for Lady Williams Wynne’s room in a house in St James’s Square in London, and was drawn in about 1772. Robert Adam was a famous architect who had a big office in London, and was older than Soane. After the Adam office closed, Soane bought many of the Adam drawings to add to his collection.