SLAB LAYOUT: TYPICAL VS PRECEDENTS In order to analyze modular and micro unit buildings, it is not enough to just look and analyze precedents alone. It is important to compare them to regular building parameters. Building parameters such as circulation cores, hallways, depth of the apartment for optimal lighting and so on allowed so standards to be set and defining what a typical building is. Be it a typical double loaded corridor building (left) or a typical point tower building (right).
A typical point tower would be 85 feet by 85 approximately which has a slab area of 7,225 sq feet. My micro building is 48 feet wide and 100 feet long, the slab area is 4,800. Even though its slab area is 2,425 sq feet smaller than the typical point tower building, we can see that they both have 8 units per floor. Another advantage provided by the micro modular layout of the project.
The double loaded corridor has a typical width of 66 feet to best accommodate a central core that houses the hallway and egress. Whereas the 1047 Commonwealth building, a micro unit double loaded corridor type building has a width of 49 feet. 17 feet in width in this case or 5,032 sq feet saved as space and construction material that the micro unit allows us to gain.
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Typical Point tower
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