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5. The Room

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CHAPTER 5 THE ROOM

CHAPTER 5 THE ROOM

E. Locating Rooms

1. Rooms location on the site is to either be

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• Located along the facade, or;

• Located against a void - in order to allow for natural lighting to enter the space

F. Green Spaces

1. Each room must have access to the outdoors. This includes private and semi-private rooms.

2. Bedrooms should have a direct passageway out to open space.

3. Rooms must either have their own private outdoor space or direct access to the outdoors.

4. Each room must have a minimum of ten percent (10%) outdoor area. If rooms do not include 10% outdoor area in their module, They must have access to outdoor space within direct proximity that equals 10% of the room floor area. This space must be located within two thousand millimeters (2000mm) of any entry.

If a green space is internal it must occupy 15% entirely, or at least 15% of the rooms area worth of greenspace must be directly accessible less than 50% of the distance of the width of the room away.

E.g. 4x4 room, a 2.4sqm green space must be available 2m away.

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