WORKING DRAWINGS HANDBOOK, Fourth Edition

The structure of information

1.17 The fundamental search pattern

1.18 Search pattern running through different building
elements

1.19 The simplest possible division of building

structure

1.20 Sub-division of building into structural

elements

most appropriate to his purpose. So we are looking for a

method of elementalising the building which fulfils the

following requirements:

 It should be simple to understand

 It should be universally applicable

in politics—is that they tend to be complex, difficult to
understand and self-defeating when applied too rigidly.
Their great advantage—in building communications at
any rate—is that they offer the user access at the level