Explore the intricacies of designing a guest room suite with detailed floor and electrical plans, furniture positioning, and interior elevations. Grasp how the intricate details and dimensions, extracted from a Revit model, enhance the understanding of room layout and design.
Key Insights
- The floor plan provides a detailed layout of the guest room suite, including the position of the kitchenette, sitting area, sleeping area, closet, and bathroom, along with a comprehensive reflected ceiling plan, electrical plan, furniture plan, axonometrics, and interior elevations.
- Each light fixture and outlet is meticulously located and dimensioned in the plan, with some fixtures and outlets being anchored to the walls already in place, demonstrating the precision required in designing a space.
- All the interior elevations, furniture plans, and electrical and dimensional floor plans are extracted from the Revit model and drawn at a consistent scale of quarter inch equals a foot, ensuring consistent understanding of room dimensions and design.
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When we were reviewing the floor plans, I had mentioned enlarged guest room plans, and that a lot more detail would be presented on the specific pages for those guest room suites. So here we are, and look at how much information is conveyed in one drawing. There's the floor plan, the Reflected Ceiling Plan, Electrical Plan, Furniture Plan, axonometrics, and Interior Elevations.
So let's start zooming into each of the areas and cover a lot of material. You can see that all four images are being presented at a quarter-inch equals a foot. So the scale is there.
On the floor plan, you can see that we have the column grids, and that dimensions are anchored to the column grids. So it's 12 feet from the center line of the grid to the outside face of the EIFS system. How the suite works is there's a door from the hallway.
You can see there's a door number right there. There's a kitchenette. You continue on to the sitting area, the sleeping area, closet, and a bathroom.
This symbol right here is for an Individual Interior Elevation. So it's on A427, and we're on page A427, and it's image number 14. We also have four other Interior Elevations.
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Number six is looking this way, number nine looking this way, eight looking this way, and seven looking this way. There is a section cut through the cabinet right here. So that section would be on page A530, image 12, and that's probably going to be millwork drawings, and that would be the cabinets and that sort of thing.
There would be a legend at the very beginning or the first of the enlarged guest room plans. And so these legend keys would be presented there. You can see over here that this is similar to the Special Wall we saw on one of the floor plans, but there's more detail that's being shown now.
In hotels, there are particular Sound Transmission Coefficients that need to be maintained between individual units. And typically by having a double wall with an airspace in between, and then insulation meets those sound coefficient requirements. You can see that there's a chase back here.
That would be for venting. And let's look at the Reflected Ceiling Plan. Again, a Reflected Ceiling Plan is as if you had a mirror on the floor looking up.
You can see we have ceiling types, ceiling heights. What they're saying here at Level One, we have ceiling type B. At Levels Two through Four, ceiling type A. We have a room number. This is the light over the kitchen sink.
Normally, we do not dimension light fixtures unless they want to be in very specific locations. And so what we're saying is that from the inside face of this wall to where we have a change in ceiling height from kitchen to living room, that this light fixture is equally located between this face here and this face here. We can also see that these light fixtures here, here, and here are anchored to the wall.
We look in the bathroom, we see similar kind of information. That this fixture here is located one foot nine inches from the end of this wall. If I go to the end of the wall, go down the extension line, I get to the slash, I go over one foot nine, the center line of the fixture is up to there.
And then what they're noting in here is that this light fixture will be equally located within this shower area. It would be more typical to have the word 'EQUAL' here and the word 'EQUAL' there. One of the beauties of Revit is the fact that we can have virtual tours inside the building.
So you can see that we have a Furniture Plan, Electrical Plan, and Interior Elevations. All of these Interior Elevations, all of the Furniture Plans, Electrical, dimensional, floor plans, are all extracted out of this same model. When we model, we create things on different layers.
So there's a layer for electrical symbols, electrical dimensions, keynotes for Furniture Plan, keynotes for Elevation Plans, and so on and so forth. When I look at the Electrical Plan, again, you can see that we're not anchoring to structural grids. Rather, we're anchoring to the walls that are already in place.
When we were looking at the floor plan, the light fixtures that were being dimensioned were the light fixtures. In the Electrical Plan, we're locating outlets. And again, in the legends, towards the beginning of the set, there would be different symbols, like here's one for a switch, a television outlet, a regular duplex outlet.
When I look at the Furniture Plan, these, again, are extracted from either the Specifications Book or the actual Interior Design set of drawings. But these would be telling us that this chair is table X-212. So again, different bits of information that are all conveyed in the Furniture Plan.
When I go back down and look at the Interior Elevations, again, I can see here that this is bed number Q104. I look at the Interior Elevation, bed number Q104. Pillow number X106A and B. Pillow X106A and B. Again, all of this information is conveyed out of the Revit model.
All of the Interior Elevations are drawn at quarter-inch, which is the same scale that the Electrical Plan, the Furniture Plan, Reflected Ceiling Plan, and the floor plan are drawn. In my mind, this is a very informational, enlarged guest room set of drawings. It's very easy to see things, and it's especially beneficial to have the 3D model in the drawing.
Let's move on to our next drawing.
