Residential Buildings

 House
 Home
 Residential building
 Living room 30 – 35%
 Dining room 50 – 60%
 Bed rooms 40%
3 Major areas
 Living area
 Sleeping area
 Service area
 Near the entrance
 No direct access to bed room and W.C/bath
 Adjacent to the dining room
 Comfortable and spacious in order to
accommodate furniture and circulation area
 Sufficiently lighted and offer an attractive view of
the surrounding landscape, garden etc
 Should have southern and northern aspect
 For sleeping and relaxing
 Should be located so as to give privacy
 Includes Kitchen, dining room, bath room, W.C
Kitchen
◦ can be adjacent to the dining room
◦ Should have eastern, north eastern aspect.
Dining room
Kitchen activities should be screened from this
Bath and W.C
Should be approachable from all sides
 In architecture, a mezzanine or entresol is an
intermediate floor between main floors of a
building, and therefore typically not counted
among the overall floors of a building. Often,
a mezzanine is low-ceilinged and projects in
the form of a balcony. The term is also used
for the lowest balcony in a theatre, or for the
first few rows of seats in that balcony
 The real art in house design is to group all
these rooms in such a way that resulting
building proves most convenient, comfortable
to its inmates.
 Verandha
 Drawing room
 Bed room
 Kids room
 Dressing room
 Kitchen
 Dining room
 store room
 Pooja room
 Bath room
 Water closet
 Stair case
 Guest room
 Garage
 Waiting room for strangers or a visitor before
he is lead into the living room
 A passage giving an independent access to
other rooms of the house
 Protects the walls of the house from being
exposure to sun rays
 Main area of contact with visitors and hence
should preferably be located near the
entrance.
 Social functions can be held
 Size should be better determined by the kind
of furniture needed. It depends on the living
standard of the family and the purpose it is
going to serve.
 The most important rooms in a house
 Ideal conditions of bed room are that the sun
should shine in the room in the morning and free
breeze should ventilate it by night
 Some storage space is invariably required
 While planning the bed room first determine the
position of the bed w.r.to windows, so that bed
would be in the path of cross air currents
 The position of door should be located that when
opened, the bed should be screened.
 Should be attached to the bed room
 Main requirement is ample light
 It can be day light or artificial light, and it
should light the body not the mirror
 Health, comfort and happiness of the family directly depends
on the quality of food prepared and cleanliness of the kitchen
 Eastern or N - E corner is best, it will be warmed and purified
by the morning sunshine and remains cool for the rest of the
day
 At least 15% of the floor area should be provided in the form
of windows and ventilators
 Smooth grease proof floor having proper slope towards the
drainage pipe is essential
 Lower 1m height of the wall should also have a smooth tiled
finishing
 It can be a separate room or a space allocated
in kitchen itself
 Combined living, dining room is the latest
trend as it increases the usable space of the
room.
 Screen partition or Archway partition
 To store all the things
 A loft may be constructed on the top of the
garage or bathroom to use as store room
 Space below can also be used as store room
 Should be located in secluded part of house,
free from all disturbances
A bathroom is a room that may have different functions depending on
the cultural context. In the most literal sense, the word bathroom
means "a room with a bath". Because the traditional bath tubs have
partly made way for modern showers, including steam showers, the
more general definition is "a room where one baths". There can be just
a shower, just a bathtub or both; and often both plumbing fixtures are
combined in the bathtub. The room may also contain a sink, often
called a "wash basin" or "hand basin" (in parts of the USA) and often a
“water closet".
 Stairway, staircase, stairwell, flight of stairs or
simply stairs are names for a construction
designed to bridge a large vertical distance
by dividing it into smaller vertical distances,
called steps. Stairways may be straight,
round, or may consist of two or more straight
pieces connected at angles.
 Special stairways include escalators and
ladders. Alternatives to stairways are
elevators, stairlifts and inclined moving
sidewalks as well as stationary inclined
sidewalks.
 The room designed for accommodating
guests
 TV, Books
 Attached Bathroom
 Separate room for kids
 Under parents control
 Colourful and cheerful look
 Can be under the ground floor or separated
one
 Built inside is much convenient and cheaper
than separate one
Types of residential buildings
Detached houses or bungalows
Semi – detached houses
Block of flats or apartment houses
Row houses or chawls
 Bungalow
 2 storeyed, living, kitchen, dining, stores,
garage etc in ground floor and bed rooms ,
study room, etc in first floor
 May have an out house for maids
 Either single storeyed or 2 storeyed
 One wall common with adjacent house
 Constructed where land is very costly
 Large population to accommodate in limited area
 Flat is a unit of 2 or more rooms providing
accommodation for one family
 Can have no of flats in a floor and can have 7
storeys of such flats in an apartment
 Should have adequate space for parking the
vehicles
 Normally 50% of the site area is used for building
and remaining for courtyards, gardens, play area
etc.
 A number of dwelling units are located by the
sides of each other in a row, having front and
rear verandah or balcony for access.
 Usually there are 2 rooms, one as dining cum
kitchen other as bed room.
 More than 7 storeys
 Vertical expansion of city
 Adopted where horizontal expansion is
dificult
 Draw 2 plans in class…. Den assignment