Discover how to design an office suite layout using wall types and grid lines. This step-by-step guide illustrates how to maneuver architectural elements to create a functional and efficient office space layout.
Key Insights
- The guide provides valuable insights into adjusting architectural elements such as wall types, grid lines, and columns to achieve an optimal office suite layout. It emphasizes the importance of having a comprehensive plan when designing an office suite layout.
- The article explains how to utilize grid lines and wall types effectively to partition the office space into different areas such as conference rooms, private offices, and phone rooms. It demonstrates how to ensure each room is proportionate and suitable for its intended use.
- The guide also offers useful tips on how to avoid common mistakes when aligning walls and manipulating other architectural components. It further discusses how to add doors and additional storefronts to complete the office suite layout.
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To finish off the entry, what we can do is we can adjust, first of all, the swing of this door. I think it'll be better like that. And then we can draw this wall that goes over the top because we identified that there was just a big gap here that needs to get resolved.
And so I'm going to pop back to our TI floor plan. And it's just a matter of drawing a wall of this type. And so I can use create similar here.
And I can go ahead and draw the wall along this portion here. And it's going to disappear on us because this is a storefront that's going to cut the wall. But if I pop into my elevation view, you can see that we have the wall that's set here.
And right now it's set to drop six inches below the slab because it's showing that it's going to be below that deck. But you can always grab it and slam it up so it hits the top. This elevation is showing the wall that was being demolished here.
That's what that dashed line is. And then that gives us the wall to finish off our tenant entry. And so if I pop back to our level one plan, we can now go ahead and start blocking out the rest of our suite.
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And the first thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to go ahead and find a couple mullions that we can hit. And so I'm going to use those as our guide to create the next couple of rooms in here. And so the first one is going to be a conference room that we have.
And so I'm going to draw walls using this wall type A. And then I'm going to go ahead and set it to wall centerline because that's what we're going to use as our basis. And so I'll just use this centerline here. And I'm going to draw from this the center point of that that mullion there.
And I'm just going to draw the wall straight out. And then I'll do the same thing here to start blocking out some of these fixed rooms. And this will be a conference room that we have here.
And so just using that space. And then if you're curious, you can always jump in and see like, okay, that gives us about 11 feet, you know, not the biggest and best conference room in the world, but it's good for the size office that we're using here. And then I can do the same thing as we kind of work our way up and through the rest of the office.
So the goal is to have kind of a bank of private offices in the middle over here with obviously a reception area. In this area, open offices and break room in the back and some more conference rooms and like phone rooms and stuff like that down in the middle. And so to do that, we're going to go ahead and then draw in where we're going to have our offices sit in here.
And I'm going to use this grid line as a guide. So I can draw my, my wall here, just kind of running down this space here. And again, I'm just drawing it off to kind of a point in space.
And then I'll just draw this one across. And the goal is to have that alignment that you kind of hinted at here. But that's not exactly where that wall is going to go.
We're going to have to adjust it. But I'll just draw, say, this block here. And then I can go in knowing I want to have this alignment occur.
And then I can determine where I want this wall to be as we lay this out. And so then I'll have my phone rooms that I was mentioning here. And again, I'm just going to change that location line to finish face exterior.
And then I'm going to have these come out seven feet. And then I'll bring that down so that it aligns with the grid, just like this wall on the side here. And then across.
And because I changed my location line from center line to finish face exterior, you can see that those two don't quite line up. So I can line them up now. And then we can build furring around this column here.
And the way I want to do that is I will set it to a finish face interior exterior in this case. And then I can give it an offset of a couple inches. So then I can build a wall that will sit two inches from that face.
And so you can see here it's going into the wall at that point. So I need to adjust my offset to be negative. And that'll have it sit just outside of the column.
And so I can wrap the column and then bring it back to that existing wall so that we have the column wrapped like you see here. And so now I've got the layout for where I'm going to have my phone rooms, where I'm going to have my offices. And this dimension is going to change, remember.
And then I want to have three equal phone rooms. And so we know a sweet trick to do that. So I can just draw my walls randomly.
And then I can dimension going across here to those three points and then setting it equal gives me the three equal rooms there. And then I'm going to want to leave a pretty good amount of space here. So I'm going to give 10 feet from wall face to wall face for that.
And then we can start drawing in where our offices are going to go. So this is going to split down the middle. If we have our wall location set to finish face, I'm sorry, if we have our wall location line set to wall center line, I could just draw a line down the middle here till it hits this point.
And then we can start drawing in our offices. And we'll use this dimension from here to here to be our division point. And so I'm just going to draw a wall here using the finish face exterior or interior.
It's the same on both sides in this case to make our first office, which would be this one here. And then we're going to draw in. We have four equal offices across this side.
And so I'll just draw my walls in. And so if I have four offices, that means I'm going to need three walls to divide it up. And like I just said, it doesn't really matter where they are initially.
But we can go ahead and then dimension them from one edge, right, like we did with the phone rooms, and then set it to equal and then it gives us the four equal rooms across here. And then we have our set of offices. And then we'll make this one like a IT room for that, that setup.
And so this is how we're just blocking out the different spaces. Here, if you recall, we talked about having this be conference rooms. And so what I'll do is I'll go ahead and draw, draw a wall across the face here.
And we'll take that one all the way to the edge. And this pretty much aligns with that column. Just about.
And then we'll split this up so we have like one smaller conference room and one larger conference room. And so I'll set a wall somewhere about here. And I really want it to be about 11 feet from that grid line.
Just so we have enough space to put furniture in there. And so we've got conference room, larger conference room. And you can see we're just right on the edge there.
So I think I'm going to make an adjustment here and align this wall to the face here. And if you notice, it moved this one as well, all the way down. And that is not what we want something to do.
And it's something that's really easy to do, because we're working in this area. But you can see that just by doing that type of alignment, I'm actually impacting a lot of stuff. And so to avoid making that type of mistake, what I do is I'll take my wall and make a separation between those two.
And then I can go in and then handle the alignment that way. And the reason I did that is because we don't want to mess with this wall, which is existing and not something we would want to propose changing for this project. So then I'll go ahead and just close this off now.
So I can just grab it from the edge here. And again, just over drawing it, right? Because it doesn't matter as much. It's just easier to try and draw it first and then go back in and make the adjustments like we did here with the trim.
And like we were saying before, this isn't the final location for that line. So it's going to adjust a little bit. And in our case, we were going to bring it up so that it was aligned here with the edge of the column.
So I'll go ahead and make that alignment like that. And it's going to remove that little portion of wall, which is not a problem. There just wasn't enough room for that to exist.
But I do want to extend this one so that that alignment still maintains. So a lot of some of the old concepts, but it's always good to jump back in and take a look at them. So that gives us kind of the rough framework for the office.
And then we need to go back in and start adding some doors and additional storefronts to finish off, say, our conference rooms, phone rooms, and our private offices.
