Design and Computer-Aided Drafting Project No.

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ARCH 121 Summer 2017

Assignment No. 2 Space Planning

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1. INTRODUCTION

Our firm has been able to convince our joint venture partners that that the industrial lot owned by our
Client should be developed by building a light industrial building on the site. Your employer (Instructor)
has approved your selection of light-industrial use for the site. You will need to carefully study and
understand the functions and relationship of each space required for your development in order to
complete a functional, economical and sustainable design for the industrial building.

In order to prepare for the Design Phase of our Project, you will create a Bubble Diagram and a Program
Matrix. You will base those two documents on the generic program matrix provided on the last page,
enhanced with information you found while doing the research of various industrial buildings in
Assignment No. 1.

2. PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS - CONTENT

CAD Bubble Diagram of each floor area

Bubble Diagrams are a design and analytical tool that help us understand space adjacency, room
proximity, sound and visual relationships, traffic flow and relative sizes between proposed rooms and
spaces. Complete a Bubble Diagram of the industrial use that you have presented and that your
Instructor has approved after your presentation of Assignment No. 1.

Steps:
1. Provide the type of Industrial use you propose for your site below and have your instructor
approve it.

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Type of light industrial development proposed Instructors initials

2. Prepare a design title block on ledger size paper (11x17).

3. Draw each room/space as a circle, to scale, in METRIC. Label the spaces.
4. Arrange each room on a sheet in a logical order and by floors.
5. Link each room or space as required using a series of lines that represent at least three levels of
adjacency.
6. Provide a title, date, course/section number and your name on each sheet.
7. Print the drawings using the appropriate LT scale and CTB file.
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Program Matrix of all spaces

A Program Matrix is similar to a bubble diagram except that it provides more specific details about each
room. Complete a Program Matrix of the industrial building you selected in Assignment No. 1. A sample
program matrix is available in Lecture 1 posted on e.centennial.

Steps:
1. Prepare a design title block on ledger size paper (11x17).
2. Draw the program matrix perpendicular and diagonal grid for the number of spaces/rooms you
have (either one matrix per floor, or one combined).
3. Indicate each room and fill in the data for each column as shown in the example, but using YOUR
ideas and YOUR words.
4. Indicate the proposed adjacency of each space in the diagonal matrix using the Donut or Circle
AutoCAD commands.
5. Provide a title, date, course/section number and your name on each sheet.
6. Print the drawings using the appropriate LT scale and CTB file.

3. PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS PROCESS

Students will work individually to complete the above requirements. Work shall be based on the
Space Requirements provided on the following pages and the conclusions of the research undertaken in
Assignment No. 1 including the functional, sustainable, and design requirements. AutoCAD and sketching
techniques will be used in the preparation of the drawings. Final presentation will be on a standard format
ledger printed page. Drawings are to be prepared using AutoCAD. If used, images must be described and
the source identified.

4. REFERENCES

Sample Bubble Diagram and Program Matrix posted on e.centennial

Architectural Graphic Standards
Interior Design Standards
Sample Industrial Building Websites

5. EVALUATION

Grading Criteria Bubb. Diagr. Prog. Matrix

Completeness
All drawing and title block info has been provided and labelled. _____/4 _____/4
Graphic presentation
The presentation is concise and neat. The line work is correct. _____/5 _____/5
Functional presentation
All information provided is reasonable and easy to understand. _____/6 _____/6

Total _____/15 _____/15

6. DUE DATE

Prints of the project are due at the beginning on the first lab in Week 3, prior to the start of class.
NO PRINTING DURING THE LAB PERIOD WILL BE PERMITTED.

PLAGIARISM WILL BE DEALT WITH AS DESCRIBED IN THE COURSE OUTLINE.

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7. CLIENT PROGRAMATIC REQUIREMENTS

NOTE: These programmatic requirements are generic. Adjust them to suit your specific building/use,
but include a majority of the spaces shown below. Variations to the warehouse, sales area and the
number and size of the washrooms are permitted. Those rooms followed by an * are optional. The
Warehouse block is one storey, except for the mezzanine. The Office block must be two storeys. The
OVERALL Gross Floor Area cannot exceed 600sm, excluding mezzanines as defined by the OBC.

WAREHOUSE/ BACK OF HOUSE AREA OFFICES/ FRONT OF HOUSE AREA

Floor Level Footprint +/- 450 SM Floor Level Footprint +/- 180 sm
Warehouse/ Light manufacturing 300-350 sm Air-Lock Main entry 8-10 sm
Loading Bay 10 sm Air-Lock Employee entry* 6-8 sm
Reception/ Lobby 10 sm
Tools/ Equipment/ Dry Goods 20 sm Sales and Showroom including 20-40 sm
Storage* service counter
Open Mezzanine (max 10% of 10 - 100 sm Public B/F Washroom (one 20 sm
warehouse open area, over other Universal washroom)
rooms)
Main Electric Room 5-10 sm 2 Sales Offices (12sm ea.)* 24 sm
Garbage Room 5-10 sm Presidents Office including 18 sm
Meeting Area and private
washroom
Circulation (hallways)* 5-15 sm Administration Area 30 sm
Fire Sprinkler room* 8 sm Photocopier / file storage room 15 sm
Note: HVAC equipment located on Secondary Electrical; Telephone; 5 sm
roof Computer servers
Elevator 5 sm
(the following can be located in Elevator machine room (on grnd 5 sm
plant or office block) floor only!)
Lunch Room 40 sm Stairwells (12 sm ea. x 2*) 25 sm
Change & Washrooms (accessible 50 sm
W/Rs as required)
Janitors Closet 5 sm