Architecural Bueprints?
by FruitBatInShades · in General Discussion · 02/23/2005 (6:30 am) · 8 replies
Does anybody know of anywhere on the web that you can find blueprints? I want some ideas for levels and buildings but cannot find any online other than house plans. I'm after more industrial/miltary type stuff.
Any help appreciated :)
Any help appreciated :)
#2
02/23/2005 (9:14 am)
I did that david and was quite disturbed by the fact that most of the university sites are not working! Doesn't bear much hope for the qualifications! No luck either :(
#3
[edit]sorry, didn't see the industrial/military context.
02/23/2005 (9:27 am)
Exactly why I saved this link:Floor plans[edit]sorry, didn't see the industrial/military context.
#4
I did a google image search for "military blueprints" and found at least an interesting gun reference that may be of interest to modelers.
If most of the sites housing journals on scholar.google.com didn't force you to pay, I'd recommend them.
Wikipedia searched for "construction diagrams" gave some interesting hits, including a very interesting detailed account of Trench Warfare.
You could always hit the library, as there should be a lot of information on industrial design. Even if you have a small library. If you have a Research One library nearby, all the better.
Sorry I didn't help more. Those were my first thoughts.
Dirk gave me the right terms to search for on google images: Floorplan or Industrial Floorplan.
02/23/2005 (9:49 am)
A number of them also require you to be affiliated with the university or another accedited institution. I usually don't see the errors since I work at a university and connect through us, but I suddenly realized that others might.I did a google image search for "military blueprints" and found at least an interesting gun reference that may be of interest to modelers.
If most of the sites housing journals on scholar.google.com didn't force you to pay, I'd recommend them.
Wikipedia searched for "construction diagrams" gave some interesting hits, including a very interesting detailed account of Trench Warfare.
You could always hit the library, as there should be a lot of information on industrial design. Even if you have a small library. If you have a Research One library nearby, all the better.
Sorry I didn't help more. Those were my first thoughts.
Dirk gave me the right terms to search for on google images: Floorplan or Industrial Floorplan.
#5
but still may spur some thought processes.
http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/USA.html
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~hart205/Cathedrals/Plan/plan.html
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/contents_europe.html
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/architecture/
http://www.urban-armory.com/blueprints.htm
http://www.historacing.de/Blueprints/Zeichnungen2.html
http://www.nycsubway.org/cars/r7.html
http://www.suurland.com/blueprints.php?catagory=3&order=name
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Architecture/History/Building_Types/Religious/Christian/Churches/Cathedrals/Gothic/United_Kingdom/
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/architecture.html
http://shape.cs.princeton.edu/search.html
http://www.mayang.com/textures/
http://www.davegh.com/blade/010412.htm
http://www.accustudio.com/exchange/prnindx.htm
http://www.amazing3d.com/free/free.shtml
http://www.providence.edu/dwc/medartac.htm
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Subcultures/Gothic/Art/Photography/
http://www.princeton.edu/%7Evisres/rp/archarch.html
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/archweb_links.html
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/ARCH-links.htm
http://www.zeroland.co.nz/architecture_b.html
http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/resources/subject/onlineimages.asp
http://www.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/Research/kilburn/
http://www.cagenweb.com/quarries/architecture.html
http://wwwsju.stjohns.edu/library/staugustine/art-architecture.html
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~ifican/resources/pathfinders/architecture.html
http://www.architectstore.com/archives.html
http://www.people.ku.edu/~asnow/links.html
http://www.llgc.org.uk/ardd/pensaeri/arch011.htm
http://ah.bfn.org/a/ellicott/121/eccext/
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/arc/os_websites/arcsourc6.htm
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/arx/archref.html
http://www.ccbcmd.edu/libraries/dundalk/classes/pergola_art.html
http://www.snow.ocad.on.ca/library/images.html
02/23/2005 (6:38 pm)
Here are some you may find of interest. May not be exactly what you seek,but still may spur some thought processes.
http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/USA.html
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~hart205/Cathedrals/Plan/plan.html
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/contents_europe.html
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/architecture/
http://www.urban-armory.com/blueprints.htm
http://www.historacing.de/Blueprints/Zeichnungen2.html
http://www.nycsubway.org/cars/r7.html
http://www.suurland.com/blueprints.php?catagory=3&order=name
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Architecture/History/Building_Types/Religious/Christian/Churches/Cathedrals/Gothic/United_Kingdom/
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/architecture.html
http://shape.cs.princeton.edu/search.html
http://www.mayang.com/textures/
http://www.davegh.com/blade/010412.htm
http://www.accustudio.com/exchange/prnindx.htm
http://www.amazing3d.com/free/free.shtml
http://www.providence.edu/dwc/medartac.htm
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Subcultures/Gothic/Art/Photography/
http://www.princeton.edu/%7Evisres/rp/archarch.html
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/archweb_links.html
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/ARCH-links.htm
http://www.zeroland.co.nz/architecture_b.html
http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/resources/subject/onlineimages.asp
http://www.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/Research/kilburn/
http://www.cagenweb.com/quarries/architecture.html
http://wwwsju.stjohns.edu/library/staugustine/art-architecture.html
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~ifican/resources/pathfinders/architecture.html
http://www.architectstore.com/archives.html
http://www.people.ku.edu/~asnow/links.html
http://www.llgc.org.uk/ardd/pensaeri/arch011.htm
http://ah.bfn.org/a/ellicott/121/eccext/
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/arc/os_websites/arcsourc6.htm
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/arx/archref.html
http://www.ccbcmd.edu/libraries/dundalk/classes/pergola_art.html
http://www.snow.ocad.on.ca/library/images.html
#6
02/24/2005 (4:54 am)
Thanks Dale, some great stuff there :)
#7
Im making futuristic setup but with old buildings, the old buildings where sort of reconstructed by the future civilization.
02/24/2005 (9:30 pm)
Alas! search and you shall find, but I am bit concern about th IP of these things. Can I make design replicas of these things and put it in my game and sell it? For the last few weeks I have been hitting the local bookstores for "sale" architectural books and other historical buildings and still warry on the IP of those things for my project. Im making futuristic setup but with old buildings, the old buildings where sort of reconstructed by the future civilization.
#8
02/25/2005 (9:10 am)
IP shouldn't really be an issue. I very much doubt that someone would even recognise the building in game. The point of looking for these blueprints is not to copy a building. I am just looking for inspiration for structural layouts. I also find that the design at the start and the finished item are usually very different. Once you've added gameplay features, added extra bits that you need to open areas up and removed extraneous areas, the building usually looks nothing like the orignal plan.
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