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Structural Details Details are, just like most drawings in your plans, just another form of a section cut, or slice, through more specific parts of your building. They will be the most specific drawings in your plans, detailing and specifying exactly how your building will go together. Nowadays, with liability insurance issues what they are, you may actually need both architectural and structural details on your plans. Architectural details will specify everything not specifically related to structural stability. The architectural details will deal with how the building will "look" and also how it will be waterproofed, insulated, fireproofed, and any other issues besides structural stability. Often your architectural details will say things like "Rebar per Engineer", and your structural details might say "Waterproofing by Architect". These details used to be combined until these separate issues became more and more regulated and scrutinized and insurance companies needed to separate out the different liabilities involved.
Architects inherently (through both education and field experience) have a background in structures so they will normally produce the initial details, pass those on to the engineer, and then the engineer will specify the actual size and type of joists, rafters, posts, beams, connections, etc. and then pass those back to the architect which might require slight modifications to the architectural details to account the for engineering issues. This may seem somewhat redundant and overlapping, which it is, but again, in these days of insurance and lawsuits, this process brings about better buildings, less problems in the field , and buildings with a longer life span and more lasting value. You may click on the image below for a larger view.
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