Designing a public restroom to meet code compliance can be a complex process that involves thoughtful placement of partitions, plumbing fixtures, and doors. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to effectively plan and arrange these elements using specific architectural software tools.
Key Insights
- The process begins with adding the necessary partitions for toilet stalls and urinal screens. Placement of these partitions is key to ensuring proper privacy and comfort for users.
- Next, plumbing fixtures such as toilets, urinals, and sinks are added. These are carefully aligned to meet accessibility standards and ensure there is adequate space for users to move around.
- Finally, all elements including doors are replicated on the second level using the copy and paste tool. The aim is to achieve a functional and code-compliant restroom design that also maximizes space utilization.
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Now we can add the stall for the second toilet in the women's room and the urinal partition for the men's room here, and then we can add the plumbing fixtures after that. We'll do the same thing we did before. We'll go to architecture and component, and I'll just change the type here. Instead of the 60-wide ADA, we will change it to the 36 × 60 single. It’s the same process where we find that starting point, and I'll just place it. You can see here that we do have some issues with the way it's swinging. When we look, we do have the options for the side panel or not to have the side panel. But in this case, I want to flip it around, so I'll use the toggle to flip it, and then I can align it with my other partition. Actually, we need to move it because we changed that parameter, so we'll move it to align with the other partition, and then we can make any adjustments. We know that this depth here is going to be about five feet, and that looks pretty good. Okay, and then on the men's side, we'll use the component tool again. But instead of a toilet partition, we will use a urinal screen. We'll pick one of the shallower ones because we don't have a ton of space in here, so we'll go with the 17-inch model. These are just the different heights, and so you have all these different options you can go with. We'll go with the 17 × 48 because it is going to be next to a sink. This one's not a hosted family, so you can kind of just place it anywhere. What I typically do is I'll go in, and I'll just align it with my partition on the other side of the wall and then align it back here. What's key is we're going to want about three feet in this dimension here so that we can put our sink. That’s a little tight, so we're going to have to adjust that a little. I want about three feet here, and they don't quite line up the way we wanted to, and that's going to be fine because you'll never see that. Then we'll want the same dimension here. We'll need a minimum of 30 inches at that point for clearance to the urinal, and that gives us the space we'll need for those two pieces. The next step here is going to be to add the toilet fixtures in. We're going to use the same ones we used before, so we'll use the 15-inch height here, and I'll just place it pretty quickly. Then we'll go back and adjust those locations. If you notice, I didn't add one on this side, and that's because once I get this one set, I can just mirror it across. So I'll set that to one foot six there. Then, for the other one, I'll set it so that it's right in the middle of those partitions. You'll notice that the constraints aren't satisfied when I do the EQ constraint. You’ll see that happen pretty often with Revit families. It's because by adjusting those dimensions, it's going to try and hold one of these two, and then it's trying to squeeze or push it in a way that it can't, and it'll ruin the constraints of the sketch. Sometimes we don’t have the options we're looking for, but you can see here that we're only off by a quarter inch, which is pretty good considering. What I could do is, if I get the dimension on here accurately, meaning not to the center of the partition, see how right now when we let it highlight, it’s telling me it’s to the partition and not the toilet? If I adjust it just a little bit, you can see that that is now to the center of the toilet, and now I get a better idea of how it’s placed. I’m actually again off by about an eighth of an inch there. So, if I make this instead of three-sixteenths, I can make it four-sixteenths and adjust it to be in the middle. Now that one is set. I'll take this toilet and use my mirror pick axis tool to flip it to the other side. There we go. Then, I’ll add my urinal, which should be part of our template here, and I'll place it here in the middle between the partition, the urinal screen, and the partition. That one worked because there are no parameters on this guy here, so I’m going to delete that dimension because it's not going to matter too much, and hit end constrain. Then we’ll just add our wall-mounted sink again, just repeating that CM command or going to architecture component. Then we’ll just need to find our laboratory, and you can see it’s in our recent use as well. You can always go to that or look for it in the options here, and it'll always be in alphabetical order. Then I'll place this guy where it needs to go here, and then on this side, it'll sit in the middle of those two. What I’ll do is, I’m going to set this one because I need to have at least a foot and a half from there. I want to ensure that this dimension is correct. Then here, I want to make sure that we have about one foot six from the face of this partition there, and it looks like we’re good on that location. You can always adjust these to suit the needs of your project as well. What we can do now is just take all of these elements we’ve created, the fixtures and the partitions. I’ve selected all of those, and I’m going to go ahead and copy to clipboard. Then, I’ll jump up to level two, and you can see we have all the same elements on level two with the walls. I’ll do paste aligned to current view, and then I can do the same thing. Actually, I should have grabbed the doors the first time, but we can do it again. So, select the doors, use that copy to clipboard again, go to level two, and I can say paste aligned to current view. Now we have the doors as well, and this isn’t the most luxurious restroom, but it does give us an extra fixture while still maintaining our code compliance. In the next video, we're going to take a look at maybe refining this a little bit and taking it to the next level of detail by adding our rooms back in.
