Interior Planning Fail?

[thescreensavers]

I took a tour of the new building on campus, and all the rooms which are not on a corner are like this, regardless of the rooms size.

This building is trying to hit "LEED" Platinum Status. So is this part of some "green" thing?

Looks like a Fail to me.

 

[zerocool84]

Does that lead to the next room?

 

[Tiamat]

"This is a two bedroom apartment"... (Even though it clearly was a one-bedroom apartment, we put a wall up and now can charge you 1.5x the rent since it has 2 bedrooms)

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Yet another example of ugly university architecture. My favorite is a massive three story structure at the University of New Mexico that has no access to the second and third floors from inside the building.

 

[thescreensavers]

Does that lead to the next room?

nope, its also very tiny, like you can slide sideways in it but that's about it.

The 2nd picture is the room to the right, directly next to the 1st. The 3rd is the same room as 2nd just the right wall.

And as you can see its blocking windows...

 

[zerocool84]

nope, its also very tiny, like you can slide sideways in it but that's about it.

The 2nd picture is the room to the right, directly next to the 1st. The 3rd is the same room as 2nd just the right wall.

And as you can see its blocking windows...

wtf I don't get why they'd build like that. Waste of space. Makes no sense to me but I guess that's why I don't build things for a living.

 

[thescreensavers]

^ Yep, our teacher was like uh I guess they are building around supports, but all the rooms are like this.. lol

And apparently bigger rooms = bigger wasted space!

 

[Ichinisan]

Was it adapted from a building that once had a different floor plan?

 

[IronWing]

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I have no idea really but I thought it a sufficiently plausible explanation as to not immediately sound like total bullshit.

 

[0roo0roo]

wtf I don't get why they'd build like that. Waste of space. Makes no sense to me but I guess that's why I don't build things for a living.

i'm sure there is an excellent "oh fuck" story behind it lol

 

[zerocool84]

Was it adapted from a building that once had a different floor plan?

Seems like it had to have been.

 

[thescreensavers]

i'm sure there is an excellent "oh fuck" story behind it lol

lol hmm I bet the Architect is pissed off since I hear he keeps checking everything and coming with red tape on stuff to fix...

Was it adapted from a building that once had a different floor plan?

I have no idea, This is a brand new building. So I would assume the floor plan was developed when they drew up the building. Every floor has these things, and no one knows why. Eventually we should find out.

I made a joke like, I wonder what the guy who put the carpet/tile in was saying.

 

[rcpratt]

Seems obvious...they wanted a wall there, but they are cutting down on electricity usage by having a shared window. Light goes into both rooms, but you don't have to have two windows which would cause more heat loss.

LEED is a pretty cool project. You really have to do every tiny thing to achieve platinum certification.

 

[endlessmike]

So they go something like this?

 

[thescreensavers]

double post

 

[thescreensavers]

Seems obvious...they wanted a wall there, but they are cutting down on electricity usage by having a shared window. Light goes into both rooms, but you don't have to have two windows which would cause more heat loss.

LEED is a pretty cool project. You really have to do every tiny thing to achieve platinum certification.

Indeed, but they have a wall blocking, so the window is not being shared. The AC system they have is pretty cool.

So they go something like this?

^ Yep something like that, except the room at the end if it was at the end of the building would not have the pointy bit.

Why is that?

 

[rcpratt]

Oh, that's what I get for not reading the whole thread. Now I have no idea.

 

[thescreensavers]

^ hehe

endlessmike: did you just draw that up or did you find some place that there is a reason for it?

 

[IronWing]

What is the geographic orientation of the outside wall with the windows? East facing?

 

[iGas]

It look like the architect really screwed the pooch on this one.

Is there a complete floor plan print of the entire floor of building?

 

[thescreensavers]

What is the geographic orientation of the outside wall with the windows? East facing?

The Majority of the building faces N and S. The ends of the building are E and West.

It look like the architect really screwed the pooch on this one.

Is there a complete floor plan print of the entire floor of building?

This is the best I can find

http://issuu.com/faucoecs/docs/214655_fau_new2

 

[Demo24]

Looks like the size of the rooms changed once they got the outside finished. Can't really build a wall into the window, so they just did that.

Or perhaps they had to add some more supports.

 

[thescreensavers]

^ But as you see, there are no supports in there. Its just empty space and then the next room has the indentation in it. just looks like a normal thin drywall.

 

[the DRIZZLE]

Seems obvious...they wanted a wall there, but they are cutting down on electricity usage by having a shared window. Light goes into both rooms, but you don't have to have two windows which would cause more heat loss.

LEED is a pretty cool project. You really have to do every tiny thing to achieve platinum certification.

LEED is complete nonsense. You get more points for feel good crap than for things that actually save energy.

 

[iGas]

The Majority of the building faces N and S. The ends of the building are E and West.



This is the best I can find

http://issuu.com/faucoecs/docs/214655_fau_new2

The floor plan shown there are jogs in the wall that suggest there are supports and/or chase in those area that you can't see.

There must be a huge oversight where exterior finishings/windows drawing that doesn't match up with the supports and mechanical. Every building that I worked on have errors that needs to be corrects as the work being done (there are original blue prints, then updates prints...sometimes in the dozens while work being done, and then there are as built drawings that we summit after completion date) there are rooms that are absolutely wacky because the architect didn't make allowance for mechanical and structural as well as fire exits, etc...

PS. Most architect that I have worked with are absolute control freaks and thinks that they are the builder/engineer, matter of fact they have absolutely no idea how to put things together (they don't know the different between a hammer and a pry bar) and rely completely on builders/engineers/artisans create the magic.