Discover how to delineate an architectural layout for an elevator, machine room, and bathroom including door placements within a floor plan. Learn the crucial factors that play into the creation of a functional and efficient architectural design.
Key Insights
- The article reveals the process of drawing in an elevator, starting with placing a wall and adding dimensions. The clear interior dimensions, also known as the hoist way, are highlighted as essential as they need to accommodate the elevator's size.
- The author demonstrates how to adjust dimensions for creating spaces like a machine room or a bathroom, and the method of dividing equal space for further utility. The process of deleting unnecessary dimensions and adding doors with specific measurements is also explained.
- The article discusses the need for ensuring adequate space for additional features, like an accessible stall in the bathroom. It also touches upon the necessity to take into account corridor width for the project, emphasizing the need for further adjustments and refining as the layout progresses.
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Next on our to-do list here is going to be to draw in the elevator. And to do that, I'm going to start by just placing a wall going across here. And then I'm going to go ahead and add a couple dimensions in here.
And so these are the clear interior dimensions. And those are typically the important ones. This is called the hoist way.
And those dimensions are the important ones for the elevator because that's what it has to fit within. So in our case, this 8 foot 10, that would be the minimum that we need. And so we've got 8 foot 10 and an eighth, which is going to be fine.
But here we need to adjust this dimension to be 6 foot 6. And so by clicking this wall, I can select the dimension. And then I can adjust that to be 6 foot 6. And that gives us our elevator space here. And then what I'll do is I'll split this in half, and that'll give me space to draw in for like an electrical room or a telecom room and a machine room if we need it on this floor.
And so I'm just going to divide these two up equally like that. And now I've got the core essentially laid out. So I'm just deleting these dimensions that I no longer need.
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And then we can start working on adding some doors in. So I know that we'll have just standard 36 × 84 doors in a lot of these spaces. And so I'll put those in pretty much the same way we have for a lot of our other projects where we just have them sitting two feet off the edge.
And then the ones that go into the bathroom, I'm going to put those a little tighter. And to do that, I want to make sure that this dimension from the face of the wall to the jamb of the door is four inches. And the easy way to do that is when I select the door, like you see here, I can go ahead and I can click on the grip and that changes the location that it's sitting along the wall.
So it'll typically go from center to face-to-face. And it does the same thing with this one where it's on the center, where if I click on it again, you can see it bounces from the different locations on the door. So I'll take this one now and I'll go ahead and change that to four inches.
And then what I want to do is I want to make sure that I have at least 12 inches on this side and we have more than enough here. So that looks good. Instead of doing the same thing on this one, I can just use the align tool and align the doors so that they line up like you see here.
And then I want to have an accessible stall and then another stall here in this location. And so to get that to fit, I need to make sure that I have at least eight feet going across this way. And we have nine foot one, which is going to be more than enough space.
And that gives us the opportunity to ask the question, do we want to reduce this or not? And that's where we would take a look at this corridor width to determine if that's going to be enough for our project. And five feet is pretty narrow for a corridor of a project like this. We might want to take a little bit out of that.
But that's a decision we can make as we progress through the layout. So this is the basic layout for our core for level one. The next thing we need to do is start looking at our stairwells and then we can go back in and start to refine it even further.
