Learn about the practical steps in laying out a bathroom design, featuring the addition of toilet stalls and the adjustments necessary to accommodate an ADA partition. This guide provides detailed insights into the process of ensuring space efficiency and the interplay of different bathroom components in your design.
Key Insights
- The bathroom layout begins with adding the toilet stalls, taking into account the available space and ensuring it is sufficient for the bathroom components to be added later.
- Adjustments to the design, such as extending the vestibule and altering dimension values, may be necessary to create extra space for potential additions like a drinking fountain.
- When adding ADA partitions, the design process involves several adjustments including setting the depth and width, removing unnecessary panels, and ensuring precise positioning. It's also important to consider future changes in the wall thickness to maintain adequate space.
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Next on our list is going to be the bathroom here. And to lay this out, the first thing we'll do is we will add in our toilet stalls, which are going to be in this area here. And like I mentioned before, it seems like we might have more space than we need, which is always a good thing when it comes to laying out bathrooms.
And so what we'll do here is I'm, I think I'm going to extend this vestibule so that it's a little bit deeper. And so instead of nine foot one and an eighth, we're going to go ahead and change this dimension value to be eight foot so that we have a little more space in here and potentially could have, you know, like a drinking fountain or something in there if we wanted. And then we'll go ahead and we'll add our partitions.
And so we go back to component. We have our toilet partitions here, and we're looking for this 60 inch wide ADA partition. And this is wall hosted as well.
You can see how it won't let me place it anywhere else except for against a wall. And so I could start with this restroom. We haven't determined which one's male or female yet, but we can start here.
And then we just need to make some adjustments to this parameter. So you can see the depth is set to five feet and the width is set to nine foot 10. And that's, that's going to work for us because this is our five foot.
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And then this is the nine foot 10 dimension. If I were to move it back from this end point to the face of my wall here, you can see that it's pretty close, but we do definitely want to adjust that. So you can grab the grip here and it'll adjust it around.
And we also know that we don't need this panel here. And so if we look at the parameters that come with this one, you can see there's a side panel option to turn that on or off. And then I can turn that off.
And then I can just drag this in to be at the right value. And that's going to be this number right here. You can see it's changing.
Another thing you can do is if you wanted to get it right on exactly where it needed to be, you could draw this dimension and I can see it's nine foot one and eight. And so then I can change this value from nine foot 81, one 28th or whatever that is, and make it nine foot one and one eighth. So that'd be nine space 1.125. If you're into decimals there, and that gives us the exact value that we need through here.
The next is going to be, if we make this the women's room, we'll have another partition in this area. And so I can do a create similar here and change the type to the 36 × 60. And it's the same thing where we do have a partition that's going to be hosted, but we have to cheat a little bit.
And this is common when you're working on Revit projects like this, but I'll just place it, say here like that. And then I can cheat by flipping it around. And since I really only need these two pieces here, I could change this dimension so that the partitions not as, as tall, because I really only want to have five feet at this way.
If I were to draw a reference plane or a detail line or something to kind of give myself a item to work with, then I could. If I make this five feet, then I can see where that partition is actually going to end. And then I can adjust it accordingly.
And so same thing with the accessible partition. I've got values for depth and width. And if I change that depth from five feet to let's say two foot two, it'll squeeze it in and you can see, we're just getting closer and closer.
So I'll make it two feet and that should do it. And now we've got it set up where we have two stalls in here for this bathroom. And then on this side for the men's room, we won't need both stalls.
So the other thing to keep in mind is that this wall is going to get much thicker. And so we need to make sure that we have more space to account for that as well. So this is probably going to change and this is going to change a little bit as well.
