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Also known as 2D floor plan

drawing to scale, showing from above, the relationships between walls and spaces of a structure

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Encyclopedic overview

First floor plan of a single-family house showing a north arrow, room tags, furniture layouts, window and door placement, relative wall thicknesses, and window specification details.

In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a technical or diagrammatic drawing that illustrates the horizontal relationships of interior spaces or features to one another at one level of a structure. They are typically drawn to-scale and in orthographic projection to represent relationships without distortion. They are usually drawn approximately 4 ft (1.2 m) above the finished floor and indicate the direction of north.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “floor plan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.