Learn about creating and modifying wall divisions in architectural suites through the use of keyboard shortcuts and alterations in planning. This article offers a step-by-step guide on how to effectively block out, draw, and adjust wall divisions to segregate different suites.
Key Insights
- The walls that divide architectural suites are created by using keyboard shortcuts and then adjusted according to the desired alignment. The location of the walls doesn't need to be exact initially as they can be moved later.
- When creating wall divisions, the type of wall to use may vary depending on the separation between suites. Walls can be drawn from the midpoint to the edge, and they can be drawn in a zigzag pattern if needed.
- After the suites are divided, the next step involves dealing with existing walls that may need to be demolished and replaced with new storefronts to provide entrance points for tenants. The demolition and reconstruction process involves splitting the wall, marking the portion to be demolished, and creating new walls where needed.
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The first thing that we're going to do is we're going to block out the walls that are going to divide up the two suites. And so, you saw that a little bit when we jumped in and created the rentable area plans. We have this division here that is going to divide up our two suites.
And we're going to go ahead and add those in now. I'm going to just go ahead and start by drawing the walls around here and then the one down the middle. Then we'll take a look at how we're going to modify this one.
So I'm going to use WA on my keyboard to activate the keyboard shortcut for walls. Then I want to make sure this is set to either Finished Face: Exterior or Interior because I want to align it with this wall right here. You can see it went to the opposite side, but no big deal because we know we can just hit the spacebar and move it around.
I'm not worried about exact locations right now. I'm just trying to get this blocked out. So that's not the final resting place for that wall, which is no big deal.
I'll go ahead and draw in those three walls. I did use that one-hour type because I have no idea what the separation between these two is going to be. Then we'll activate the wall command again.
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We're going to go ahead and change it to Wall Centerline because I want to grab this midpoint and then take that all the way up to the edge. You can see I'm not going to quite hit a mullion here. That's not a problem because all I can do is just take it to that point.
Then I'll pick either this side or that side of the wall—or of the wall. Then I can draw in a little zigzag here. So I'll just move this down.
Then I'll draw that at a foot and a half. Then we can jog it over. Then I can trim it out to close this.
That just creates the little jog here. It doesn't quite have to be that much if you don't want it to. It's just a general rule of thumb that I follow there.
Now I've got my two suites divided up. The next thing to do here is to deal with this wall. What we're going to do is actually demo it and then draw in a new storefront that is going to have a different spot or a designation for where this tenant is going to enter on this side.
So what I'll do is take a look at where I might want this to be broken down. Then I can go in and draw my new storefront. If I were to just take a line across here—just drawing a detail line—that's just one of the hidden lines; that was the type it just happened to be on.
I can use that as my guide for where I want to demo. I want everything from here down to be demolished. Then everything from here up I'm just going to leave as a solid wall.
I'll go ahead and split the wall at this point here. If I don't get it exact, it's not a big deal because I can go back in and make the adjustment as needed. If you don't do it far enough away, it will rejoin the walls.
You might have to split it again, like I just did. But this is the portion that I want to have demolished. Just like we've done in previous courses, I'll select this wall.
I can change the Phase Demolished from None to Tenant TI, and then it'll demolish that view or that wall. You can see that wall is being demolished in this view type because our phase filter is set to Show All—and that's something that we'll deal with here in a second. Now that I've got that wall demolished and set in the position that I'd like to have here, I'm just going to double-check and make sure there aren't any other walls that we need to draw.
It looks like we're pretty good for right now. The rest of it is going to be more geared toward what's happening within the tenant improvement scope. So let's go ahead and make a couple of duplicates of this view.
I'm going to take this one here, and this is going to be our floor plan that we use. I'm going to right-click, and I'm going to make another duplicate of it. Then I'll go ahead and rename this view to be the Demo Floor Plan.
It's not like we're going to use a demo plan for this class, but it's good to just keep track of it. Now we have our Level 1 Demo Floor Plan. When we do demo plans, we set our phase to Previous + Demo.
So it won't show any of the new walls that we created, but it will show the wall that's being demolished here. For new floor plans, we are going to change our phase filter to Previous + New. What it did is it got rid of the demolished portion of it, but it shows all of our previous phase walls plus the new ones that we just drew.
