Delve into the world of restroom design as you learn the techniques and strategies for achieving the most efficient layout. The article details each step of the design process, from blocking out the design to placing doors and fixtures.
Key Insights
- The design process begins with blocking out the layout, using similar wall types for consistency.
- The article emphasizes the importance of setting the right options as active before starting to lay out the design. This will save time and effort later on by ensuring everything created within a certain option is automatically set to that option.
- The layout's efficiency is further enhanced by carefully placing the doors and fixtures, taking into consideration the space available for movement within the restroom.
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Our next step here is going to be to lay out the new restroom design that we're looking to achieve. And the first thing we want to do is just kind of block this out. And so we're going to use some similar wall types that we had before.
So for instance, we'd want to use this same full height wall type. And then we'd also have a plumbing wall that we're going to have divide the space. And then we'll use again that same wall type to create the entire layout.
So the first thing I'll do is I'll create this first wall that's going to go up. And before we get started, we want to make sure that we have the right option set as active. And it's not required, but it'll just save you a step in the future.
If I change my option from main model to option two, then what will happen is anything that I create on this option will be set to option two. And you can see here when I click on it, as I hover over it, it'll tell me that it's part of the restroom options option two. And that way, I'm not having to go back and then set different items to the other option set.
So I'll start off again by creating a wall. And I'm going to change my wall type to this 12 inch plumbing partition. And what I'll do is I'll set my options here.
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I want to make sure I've got it going up to the roof, and then it's set by wall center line. I'm just going to use this midpoint here as a starting point, and I can just run it all the way across the top. And then I'll go back and I'll draw a wall again, and I'll activate the wall command.
But this time, I'm going to use the four and seven eighths partition, which is our standard full height interior wall. And I could use the wall center line again if I wanted, because I can just grab this point here, which is the middle of that wall. And I'll just bring that up and across.
And we are overlapping a room separator here, so it will give you an error. And obviously, this isn't the layout we're going for here, but it's close. And so we're just trying to rough this in a bit.
So then I'll use my Trim Extend to Corner, which is the TR keyboard shortcut that we became very familiar with in BIM 101. And I'll trim to that corner there. And then I'll draw another wall.
And this time, I'm going to change my location line to finish face exterior. And I'll draw it so that it aligns like you see here and hits that point. Now, this isn't much of a walkway for somebody to make their way through.
So what we'll need to do is we'll need to adjust the dimension here. And that's a little tight. We'll go ahead and make that four foot four, which is probably the absolute narrowest we could do and still maintain our door clearance here.
And so I'll go ahead and set that. And then we'll place a couple of doors. And so using the door command, keyboard shortcut DR this time, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to find the 36 × 84 single flush.
And we're going to want to put that as close as we possibly can to this wall here. And then I'll set this one about the same relationship. And so that gives us our layout for our restrooms.
And then we can take a look at adding the rooms and the fixtures.
