Architectural Designs

Bungalow with basement thats a walk-out? How would that be drawn out?

Im trying to make a plan design of a cabin thats a bungalow and the client wants a basement which can be a walk-out or not depending on how I use the burm. Would the basement be under house all the way? or would it kind show outside the area where the house takes? and lol dont worry its not a real client , im doing a project and i dont know how to draw a plan view of it

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1. I'm picturing something like in some of the old building in New York. Where the person kinda goes down these steps into the lowest floor..possibly the basement. Did you see the' House of D'...wasn't Robin WIlliams character live in a basement..maybe that movie will give you some ideas-
2. The "footprint" of the basement would be exactly the same size and outline of the first floor above. Imagine your berm (a sloping hill) and you cut a large notch in it, like you were cutting a square back into a pile of snow from the edge. Your basment walls would be inside that notch. At the back they would be completely underground in the pile of snow but at the front the wall and part of the sides would be completely exposed. The door for your "walk out" would be there in the front. When you draw the side elevation you would draw the whole basement wall with the house wall above it and then draw a dotted line showing where the edge of the berm covered the buried part of the wall, sloping from back to front. Your textbook or your teacher should be showing you how to do this. Did you not pay attention in class?