Bubble Diagrams

This is one of those "Design 101" things that they taught us very early in architecture school.  Sometimes it's best to draw them as circles (though you'll want to get the relative size of the rooms close) which helps you not to think of them so much as rooms at the early part of the design, but simply as indications of functions and relative sizes and how they will relate to each other spatially.

 

If you are fairly certain you will have more than one floor, you can just show a separate grouping of bubbles and just have them connected in a conceptual way to where the stairs might best go up or down in the plan.

This may not be the way Frank Lloyd Wright did or Frank Gehry does things, but for most people building their house or other project in a conventional way (95% or more), this is a good way to start thinking about spaces.

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