Working link to your Revit cloud model in Forma Data Management
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Working link to your Individual Forma Board
PDF sheet set, 30 by 42 inches (E1 size)
Here is the room schedule with the unit mix (only occupancy was included in pdf below):
A screenshot of Forma Data Management showing your two published versions side by side for comparison.
I didn’t see that you had to publish 2 versions as you went, so I furnished an additional room to show a different version. As I made the original version, I iterated on several designs, but didn’t save the different iterations as I went. Most of the differences between my iterations were improvements rather than grand differences, where I specified more doors, windows, etc., and created a better layout space-wise for the furnished rooms.
Design memo of 250 to 400 words: what your calculated field computes and what it told you, and what you learned about your own design from having to document it.
The calculated fields
I built a unit/room mix schedule from the room schedule for a typical residential floor (B01-L02). There are three calculated fields. Occupants is calculated by dividing area by an occupancy factor of 200 SF per person and rounds up, like the assignment review described. Unit Mix divides each type’s count by the 12 units on the floor. These results are automatically calculated when changes are made to the floor plan, not typed.
What it told me
The floor holds 2 studios (17%), 4 one-bedrooms (33%), 5 two-bedrooms (42%), and 1 three-bedroom (8%). The program asks for 15%, 45%, 30%, and 10%. Studios and the three-bedroom sit close to target. Two-bedrooms run 12 % high and one-bedrooms 12 % low. Converting one two-bedroom to a one-bedroom gives 17%, 42%, 33%, and 8%, which matches the program more closely, but the extra 1 bedroom would be very large. I chose this room-mix due to the wide nature of my building, which resulted in more 2bd rooms at the 20’ 30’ 20’… grid that we used from the assignment review.
The schedule also shows that unit SF is more of a range within unit types than an exact number, which was also due to having different spacing than the assignment review’s example building due to my skinner-but-wider site.
The occupant calculation also shows the limit have using a fixed factor of 200. A 663 SF studio returns 4 occupants, which is far too many. This factor is useful for measuring loads for codes, as the assignment review described, not to predict how many people will live in a unit.
What documenting taught me
Documenting my design showed me how to more efficiently use room tags. When I began furnishing rooms, the original room tag was causing issues and I had to remove it to tag the individual rooms in the unit, so I switched to using a non-furnished floor to do the unit mix schedule.
Furnishing the 3bd room showed me that the kitchen, laundry, and bathrooms are better situated near the core (hallway), so the wet walls stack and piping is easier to map.