Interior Plan - Fairchild Books

A DMIn ISt RAt IVE HOME OF A n ACADEMIC BuILDInG
The academic building on this page is made up of two
adjacent structures (the original plus an addition). The
main circulation is linear and direct. The floor contains
a large number of small rooms (mostly private offices).
These were first determined as blocks and eventually
shown as rooms on the plan. As decisions were
concretized, each area was studied and developed in
greater detail.
The stacking plans for a large corporate facility show
three of the many floors occupied by the user. Large
corporations will often occupy several floors of a
multi-floor building. In these cases, designers have
to figure out how to allocate units, not only horizontally,
within the same floor, but also vertically,
from one floor to the next. That way, adjacencies are
explored both within the same floor and between
floors. The example is a very early study in which
the gross square feet for each unit were plugged in
to determine such things as how many units would
fit on each floor and how many total floors would be
required for the entire company.
Stacking diagrams
Floor 25
Floor 24
Floor 23
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