8 Other Ways to Use Floor Plans

Floor plans usually show walls, furniture, windows, and doors. Slightly less common types are used to plan electrical circuits, lighting systems, and structural elements.

Then there are the other ways to use a floor plan. The ones no one knows about.

Except now you do:

1. Artifact Floor Plan
Highlights only where artifacts are, to ensure the best distribution.

2. Audio Source Floor Plan
Shows where each audio source is, to avoid cacophony.

3. Soundscape Floor Plan
Identifies zones with ambient soundscapes, to orchestrate mood.

4. Interactives Floor Plan
Shows the location of each interactive, to make sure they don’t compete.

5. Emotional Floor Plan
Labels each area with the emotion that planners want visitors to feel there.

6. Settings Floor Plan
Labels each area by the setting being evoked or simulated (airport, wartime trench, Martian valley).

7. Color Palette Floor Plan
Labels each area by the color palette it will have, to keep color tightly planned.

8. Story Arc Floor Plan
Maps a story arc (exposition, rising action, climax) onto the overall path to maintain excitement.

Here’s the thing:
Floor plans don’t only plan walls and windows. They can plan emotions, colors, sounds — and anything else we want our visitors to experience.

Warmly,
Jonathan

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