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Flats and the plan engine
53 buildings in 30 models. Storeys of flats laid by the plan engine, with their corridors, cores and mixes; and a unit drawn once, its variants, its fit, repeated.
Units: a flat drawn once, its variants, its fit, repeated and edited once
Type B drawn by hand and furnished, saved as a unit with its rooms' fit rules (living grows, bedrooms hold, bathroom fixed) and three variants (corner, end, accessible); a block of three storeys where the engine lays the corner variant in the end bays and one copy is laid accessible by hand; the same flat as a maisonette laid in pairs of storeys; the bathroom as a pod inside every flat of a block. Open Build > Units to see the four units, their checks and the Unit window; the Unit book template draws them.
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Plan engine: a storey laid from a plan, your own flat repeated along a corridor, the street composed
Six buildings that tell the plan engine in order: a storey laid from the balanced slab preset with every storey above; a flat drawn by hand that Make a unit reads and saves (its faces said back); the same flat repeated along a corridor by the solver, its party walls drawn once and its wet rooms back to back; shops under the flats; the courtyard block laid as wings; and a street along a spine whose every bay of flats is solved by the plan, one facade on every block. The saved unit sits in the model's Library.
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Flats - the 40 x 18 m slab, options A and B
The double-loaded slab, 40 x 18 m, 5 storeys, as options A and B: a corridor, one core with its protected lobby, flats both sides.
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Flats - the slab, option C, and the family slab of two- and three-beds
The 40 x 18 m slab as option C, and the 48 x 20 m family slab of two- and three-bed flats entered from the east: 5 storeys.
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Flats - the shallow slab, the single-loaded bar, the tight plate, the UK slab, serviced studios
The shallow 36 x 13.5 m slab, the single-loaded 24 x 11 m bar, the tight 16 x 10 m plate, the UK slab, and the shallow slab as serviced studios: 3 to 5 storeys.
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Flats - the slab drawn at 20 degrees and the point block in two options
The slab drawn at 20 degrees (designed in its own frame) and the 20 x 20 m point block as a point block (option A) and a double-loaded plate (option B): 5 storeys.
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Flats - one slab under the UK and the US codes
The 40 x 18 m slab, 5 storeys, under the UK code (FD30 doors, the 7.5 m dead end) and the US code (20, 45 and 90-minute door sets).
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Flats - one slab under the Saudi and the Dubai codes
The 40 x 18 m slab, 5 storeys, under the Saudi and the Dubai codes: Gulf 60-minute doors, the wider Dubai corridor, paved roofs behind 1.1 m parapets.
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Flats - one slab, studio-heavy and balanced
The 40 x 18 m slab, 5 storeys, with a studio-heavy mix and a balanced mix of studios to three-beds.
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Flats - one slab, family-heavy, and as student housing
The 40 x 18 m slab, 5 storeys, family-heavy, and all studios as student housing.
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Flats - the L block in two options: a corridor down each wing
The 40 x 36 m L, options A (5 storeys) and C (4 storeys), the dark inside corner split into cycle and bin stores.
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Flats - the T block: two cores in the inside corners
The 48 x 36 m T, 5 storeys, its two cores where the stem meets the bar.
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Flats - the block with an angled edge, squared off in steps
The 44 x 32 m block whose edge is angled: the wings designed, the wedge outside the walls named: 5 storeys.
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Flats - the U block of three wings
The 54 x 40 m U, 5 storeys: a corridor down each of its three wings.
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Flats - the courtyard block: four wings round an open court
The 56 x 48 m courtyard block, option A, 4 storeys, the court planted.
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Flats - the courtyard block under the Saudi code
The 56 x 48 m courtyard block, option C, 5 storeys, under the Saudi code: Gulf fire doors, a paved roof behind a 1.1 m parapet.
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Flats - the big courtyard block: 30 to 45 flats a floor
The 72 x 56 m courtyard block, option A, 4 storeys: about 40 flats a floor, cores in the inside corners.
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Flats - the Z block: two wings, their corridors joined by a jog
The 50 x 27 m Z, 5 storeys.
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Flats - the stepped slab: the two wings that cover it
The 60 x 25 m stepped slab, 5 storeys: read as the two wings that cover it, never the strip they share.
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Flats - the stepped terrace of three bars: corridors joined by two jogs
The 70 x 36 m terrace of three 30 x 18 m bars, 5 storeys: three wings, two jogs, three cores.
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Flats - the stepped terrace of four bars: corridors joined by three jogs
The 80 x 40 m terrace of four 26 x 16 m bars, 5 storeys: four wings, three jogs.
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Flats - a slab bent at 45 degrees under the UK code: one core serves both bars
The bars of 26 and 22 m bent at 45 degrees under the UK code, 5 storeys: the walk measured through the knuckle, one core at the corner serving both bars.
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Flats - a slab bent at 30 degrees: each bar in its own frame
The slab bent at 30 degrees, 5 storeys: the main bar and the wing each planned in its own frame, the knuckle between them.
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Flats - a slab bent at 60 degrees, two options
The slab bent at 60 degrees, options A (5 storeys) and C (4 storeys): the larger corner a nook and a study.
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Flats - the tall slab: its top floor 24 m up
The tall slab at 9 storeys, its top floor 24 m up: the lobby by rule.
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Flats - the tall slab at 12 storeys under the UK code
The tall slab at 12 storeys under the UK code: over 18 m, every core a firefighting core through a protected lobby.
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Flats - the point block as a 10-storey tower under the US code
The 20 x 20 m point block (its typical floor), 10 storeys under the US code.
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Flats - the 130 m slab: about 30 flats a floor
The 130 x 18 m slab, 5 storeys: about 30 flats a floor along one long corridor.
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Flats - the 60 m slab: two cores
The 60 x 18 m slab, option A, 5 storeys: two cores, because one would leave a front door further than 30 m from its stair.
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Mixed use - shops on the ground, flats above
The 40 x 18 m slab with a ground storey of shops under 4 storeys of flats, under no code and the UK code: each flat's floor a shop with its door to the street and its back door on the corridor, the cores and the entrance lobby as the engine planned them.
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