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Planning Consideration BIM
Planning Consideration BIM
• “Every room intended for any use and not equipped with
artificial ventilation system, shall be provided with widow
or windows with a total free opening area equal to at
least ten percent of the room floor area, and such
window shall open directly to a court, yard, public street
or alley or open water courses”
SEC. 806 OF THE NATIONAL BUILDING CODE ON
SIZE AND DIMENSIONS OF ROOMS PROVIDES
THAT:
• “The Minimum size of rooms and their last horizontal dimensions shall be as
follows:
a. Room for human habitations shall be 6.00 square meters with a least dimension
of 2.00 meters.
b. Kitchen shall be 3.00 square meters with a least dimension of 1.50 meters.
c. Bath and toilet shall be 1.20 square meters with a least dimension of 90
centimeters.
When we say least dimension, it does not mean to limit the additional length or width the
owner may want.
SEC. 807 OF THE BUILDING CODE ON AIR SPACE
REQUIREMENTS IN DETERMINING THE SIZE OF
THE ROOM STATES THAT:
a. Habitable Rooms with Natural Ventilation shall have a ceiling height not
less than 2.70 meters.
b. Habitable Rooms with Artificial Ventilation shall have ceiling heights not
less than 2.40 meters measured from the floor to the ceiling. For buildings
more than one story high, the minimum shall be 2.70 meters and 2.40
meters for the second floor. The succeeding floors shall have an
unobstructed typical head room clearance of not less than 2.10 meters
above the finished floor.
c. Mezzanine Floors shall have a clearance of not less than 1.80 meters
above and below it.
DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN FIGURE
Furniture Clearances
1. 80cm. – for chair plus access thereto
2. 95cm. – for chair plus access and passage
3. 105cm. – for serving from behind chair
4. 120 cm. – from table to base cabinets (in dining – kitchen)
SIZE OF TABLE AND DINING AREA
• RECOMMENDED DINING TABLE LENGTH
of dresser, or chest 15 to 20
cm
drawers.
large 75 x 85 cm x
80 to 95cm
• Dresser 90 to 120 x 45 to 55 cm