Discover the detailed process of creating rentable plans in architectural designs, with special emphasis on drawing rentable area lines and designating spaces for specific purposes. Learn how to draw boundary lines, add areas, and appropriately label areas for easy identification and scheduling.
Key Insights
- The creation of rentable plans involves selecting 'rentable' from the architecture tab, creating area plans for required levels without creating boundary lines, as these need to be custom-designed according to the specifics of the property.
- The rentable area lines are drawn using the inside face of the wall, adding the lines on the interior but keeping in mind that certain portions will be segregated from the rest of the building. The boundary lines for specific spaces such as the lobby, the stairs, the restrooms, and office areas are drawn using the draw lines tool.
- After the boundary lines are drawn, different areas are added and designated according to their function - building common area, office area, exterior area, floor area, major vertical penetration, and store area. These areas are highlighted using detailed color fills for easy identification.
Now for the Rentable Plans, we'll go through a very similar process. We'll go to our Architecture tab, area, area plan, but this time we'll click rentable. And we'll want to do Level One and Level Two, just like we did for the Gross Area.
We definitely do not want to have it create boundary lines for us because this one is going to be a little bit more custom. We'll say no to both of these. And we'll go ahead and look for Rentable Area Plans in our project browser.
And I'll start with Level One. So just like before, we're going to use a similar process where we're drawing our rentable area lines. But for this case, we're going to go ahead and use the inside face of the wall this time.
So I'll go to area boundary and draw the line. And the first one I want to do is I want to identify a couple of the areas that we're going to use as some specialty spaces here. So like we have our stairs, our Restroom, our Lobby area, the hallway, you know, and the other stairs.
We can start by adding the lines on the interior. But we want to keep in mind that we will have a couple of portions that are going to be segregated out from the rest of the building. So I'll go ahead and trace this along the interior face.
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And just make sure I'm kind of hitting all these interior edges here. And so these are pretty straightforward going around. I'll go ahead and just move into this space here.
So you can see how that was drawn. And then we can go ahead and we can start breaking out some of the spaces. We'll have a boundary between the Lobby, the stair and our just general Office Area here.
So I'm going to draw a boundary line using the draw lines tool again. And I'll take that to pick up the stair here. And then I'll need to do the same thing to isolate the Lobby area.
And so I'll bring that across until I kind of hit close to that grid line and then bring it down. And you can see we do have a little gap here. Area plans are a little forgiving.
So you could probably get away with that. But I personally just like to keep it as a close the loop. So then the next one is going to be the Restrooms and this Stairwell here.
We'll do area boundary again. And we're going to draw the lines. And so we could depending on how you're calculating the area, you could use the center of the wall like we're doing here.
Or you could do it to the face of the wall. And that just depends on the method you're using for the area calculation. It's not going to be too big of a deal here because we're not using this to write a lease agreement or anything like that.
But if you were getting that specific, you're going to want to make sure you're picking the right face of the wall on these locations. Now that we have our different boundary lines drawn, we can go in and we can actually add our areas. And we have different area types that we can place.
So you can see we've got types for Building Common Area, Office Area, Exterior Area, Floor Area, Major Vertical Penetration, and Store Area. If I wanted to just highlight the Building Common Areas, I could grab the Lobby and then the Restrooms, which we still need the boundary line around. We'll go ahead and add that in.
I'll use the center line on this one as well. And I'll include this Vestibule space as well. We'll just add that area in, making sure it's set to Building Common Area.
And that's going to be important for us for when we do the schedule, because we want to make sure that we have it scheduled appropriately. So I'll add area again. And this time I'll change it to Major Vertical Penetration.
And that will be for our two stair areas. And then we have one more area that we'll put in here, and we'll just call this Office Area. And that's really going to take up the rest of the floor space.
Now for this one, you can see that it would be very important to use a detailed color fill, because in that case, we will be able to see very clearly which one of these areas is designated as the different spaces. And so we'll want to do that for sure on this plan. Before we go to that next step, though, what we want to do is we want to go ahead and rename the areas to something that's a little bit more appropriate instead of just using this same area as a name.
And then we'll also want to use some of the same graphic settings that we use for our Gross Area setup.
