Due to the floor layouts of my building, I had to create 3 bathroom variants to ensure each level had a restroom. On the basement floor which contains the most rooms, I designed my largest restroom with 5 WCs, 4 sinks, and 2 urinals. For the restroom in the auxiliary gift shop/ticketing building, I was only able to fit a smaller system with 2 WCs, 2 sinks, and 1 urinal. For my main floors, I was still pretty space limited and used a system of 3 WCs, 4 sinks, and 1 urinal. Each of these restrooms are stacked on each other and connect to a main trunk running down to the basement.
For my pipes, I used 3” sanitary piping throughout with a minimum 1/4”/12” downwards slope. For my hot and cold water routing, I used 2” and 3” branch pipes fitted to whatever pipe my plumbing fixtures required.
My biggest challenge with this exercise was getting my plumbing bends to route around the curved shape of my building and fit within the thin, shared, inter wall spaces between my restrooms.
Your Design Journal entries for this module should highlight your design thinking and analysis results that influenced your decisions about:
- your overall HVAC system strategy
- your heating strategy and how you implemented it in your design
- your cooling strategy and how you implemented it
- any special HVAC system challenges that you encountered