核心畫面

Think of the sheet of paper that comes before the building: the ground level drawn flat, with the walls, the rooms and the doors already fixed in place. Nothing has been put up yet, and there is no height on the page at all. Everything that gets built later has to grow out of what is on that sheet. That is the flavour the words keep everywhere else: the lowest, earliest layout that later work follows.

可以想成蓋房子之前的那張紙:地面那一層被攤平畫出來,牆在哪、門開在哪、房間多大,全都定好了。紙上還沒有任何東西立起來更多收起可以想成蓋房子之前的那張紙:地面那一層被攤平畫出來,牆在哪、門開在哪、房間多大,全都定好了。紙上還沒有任何東西立起來,也完全沒有高度。可是後面蓋的一切,都得照著這張紙長。ground plan 的味道就在這裡:它是最底下、最早、決定後面怎麼長的那一張底圖。

Two branches

地面層的圖

這一支就是核心畫面本身,可以真的拿在手上看。

noun · B2

A drawing of a building as if you were looking straight down at its ground level, showing the size, shape and position of the walls and the rooms.

平面圖

後面一切依循的底圖

紙上的那張圖被搬離開工地,但它的角色沒變:最早訂下來、後面所有東西都照著長的那一層。這是概念上的延伸,不是說這兩個意思有先後的歷史關係。

noun · C1

A basic plan that sets out how something is going to be done in the future.

基本規劃;藍圖