Bubble Diagrams

Bubble diagrams are a useful tool in the beginning stages of designing your home. Before you can begin defining the spaces with walls on the floorplan,you need to understand the relationships between the spaces as you picture them in your mind.

Architects begin with a bubble diagram. The Bubbles represent interior spaces and their importance and relationship to each other. You can do simple ones with your Open Office Draw tool (free download) or the Microsoft Paint program on your Windows computer. These will be easier to change and manipulate, but you can do them with plain old pencil and paper also.

Larger bubbles mean larger rooms,overlapping bubbles are spaces that are accessible from another space. You can also let every bubble float free and draw connecting lines to indicate access and flow.

This excercise will save you time and money later if you are drafting your own plans or paying a designer to do them. This process is critical and preceeds the others and is reiterative ( it is cheaper to make mistakes here) but it will help you clarifiy how you want the space to relate and flow and will be very helpful as floorplans are drawn. Go ahead, have fun and draw away.

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