Working link to your Revit cloud model in Forma Data Management
Working link to your Individual Forma Board
https://app.autodeskforma.com/board/up_qom1okmnwc/board_5fa9dfc5-56e9-4a3c-8e85-ff6c6a1d010d
PDF sheet set, 30 by 42 inches (E1 size)
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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.
My calculated field is in the Unit Mix Schedule. The schedule pulls every room named Studio, 1 Bed, 2 Bed or 3 Bed on Levels 2 to 7, groups them by unit type, and counts them and adds up their area. The calculated field is "% of Total Unit Area", a percentage field that divides each unit type's total area by the total area of all the units. I did not type any of these numbers in, so if I move a wall the percentages update on their own.
The building has 84 units and 56,228 SF of unit area (not counting the bathrooms, which are their own rooms). By area the mix is 1 Bed 35%, 2 Bed 35%, 3 Bed 22% and Studio 8%. The studios surprised me. There are 12 of them, which is 14% of the units, but they only take up 8% of the unit area. The 1 Beds are the opposite, 36 units (43% of the count) but 35% of the area. So my plan looks like it is mostly small units, but in floor area it is really a family size building, with the 2 and 3 Beds taking up more than half the residential area. The room totals also showed that corridors, stairs and the elevator add up to about 10,400 SF across the floors, which is space nobody can rent and that I never noticed when I was massing.
Documenting made me make decisions I had been putting off. When I checked the plumbing against the unit count, the 3 Bed at the end of every floor had no bathroom, no kitchen sink and not even an entry door from the corridor, so I had to add all of that before the door and room schedules made sense. The room schedule was double counting because of six redundant rooms, so I had to delete those. The reflected ceiling plan made me pick real ceiling heights (8'-6" in the units and 8'-0" in the corridor and baths), which leaves about 2 ft of plenum for ducts and sprinklers in Weeks 6 to 8. The enlarged studio plan was the hardest part, because at 1/4" scale you can see if the bed actually fits next to the bathroom wall. The model felt done before, but the drawings showed me how much a contractor would still have to ask me.