TS 2119

TS 2119 addresses how architectural and building drawings are presented and how drawing scales are used in architectural and working projects. In general technical terms, architectural documentation translates a building design into plans, sections, elevations, and details; this standard focuses on the common drawing rules and scale practice that help make those documents orderly, legible, and comparable.

Scale use and drawing legibility

In technical drawing, scale expresses the proportional relationship between the real object and its representation on paper or in a digital drawing. Architectural projects often combine several scales in one set of documents, because a site layout, a floor plan, and a detail drawing require different levels of information. Scale selection therefore affects not only size representation but also readability and information density.

The role of building drawings in project communication

Architectural and building working drawings are used to communicate design intent together with the information needed for construction. Architectural drawings describe spatial arrangement and functional relationships, while working drawings provide the more detailed dimensions, placement data, and fabrication information used in execution. The subject of this standard is the common presentation framework for those drawings, so that project documents can be interpreted more consistently across disciplines and project stages.

• Covers general presentation rules for architectural and building project drawings.
• Addresses the use of different scales in technical drawings.
• Supports more consistent reading of plans, sections, elevations, and details.
• Listed as equivalent to ISO 1047:1973.