Barbican Roof Plan

This Barbican roof plan, from 1966, was used during construction as an overview of the building work, which took place in five phases. You can see the numbers on the map.

The roof plan also has other sequences of numbers on it. The site is broken up into eighteen blocks, numbered in Roman numerals.

There is also a typewritten key, on which the individual buildings are identified.

Colours help separate out the buildings too – here’s a nice teal and red polka dot.

This arrow isn’t directing your attention to the key – it’s pointing North.

We think these holes are where the board was held up on an office wall with screws.

This roof plan was used during construction as an overview of the building work, which took place in phases.