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Room Types

Room Types

We would benefit greatly from being able to create room types, in the same way, that we can create types for pretty much everything else. This would allow us to predefine information that our collegues have to remember to set out - finishes, loads and so on. We could get support for ISO - IFC standards room types (parking, exterior, interior) where only gross area space is supported through areas. And if Zones where a possibility for architecture, as "Idea'd" by others, we could predefine relationships to that too, and get a clearer understanding of the relations in the project.

 

To implement it correctly, rooms, areas and zones should have a spot in the project browser - you could even lumb them together with HVAC spaces and HVAC zones.

 

When there is a need for HVAC space and zone types, there is no need to think that it is not there for architecture too. In many ways room would be better supported if they where renamed to spaces, and the functionality from the MEP side was implementet for architecture (well parts of it.. ;)).

Believe it or not, everything we build revolves around the room. All elements either create or support the function of room, from the wall to the duct. Make the room a top priority.

 

 

Existing Zone ideas:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/zones-for-room-in-architecture/idi-p/6589405

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/zones-for-rooms-like-in-aca/idi-p/6682179

 

IFC implementation of the concept (and is one that descripes our need quite good too):

http://www.buildingsmart-tech.org/ifc/IFC4/Add1/html/schema/ifcproductextension/lexical/ifcspace.htm

http://www.buildingsmart-tech.org/ifc/IFC4/Add1/html/schema/ifcproductextension/lexical/ifcspacetype...

http://www.buildingsmart-tech.org/ifc/IFC4/Add1/html/schema/ifcproductextension/lexical/ifcspatialzo...

http://www.buildingsmart-tech.org/ifc/IFC4/Add1/html/schema/ifcproductextension/lexical/ifcspatialzo...

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also for mep spaces please. The main Mep- space might be a large room like a combined living room and kitchen with a shaft. The Heating specialist should then be able to create a two mep sub space for heating (one for the kitchen & including  shaft and one for the living room. The Electrical engineer would create three sub spaces for Electrical Equipment (Kitchen, shaft and Living room). The Plumbing engineer just needs the sub space for the Kitchen as a plumbing space sanitary. The MEP Cost Estimator need all the objects linked to this main MEP-Space. So we need the different types of spaces/rooms, the referenz between these rooms and room boundry lines, which only effect certain types of rooms/spaces.

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