Create areas

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The area of a building is one of the most important design aspects.

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Budgets and costs are often based on the square footage of a building.

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And even the number of people that can occupy the building

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is based on the area required per person.

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For example, a child in a classroom requires a minimum amount of space.

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And therefore the area of the classroom will limit

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the number of students that can occupy that class.

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I have the exercise file, create areas open

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and we can see the building that we will add the areas to.

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Before creating the areas, we must first create an area scheme

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and to do this from the architecture ribbon tab,

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we'll click on the rooms and areas panel drop down

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and then we'll select area and volume computations

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on the area schemes tab

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I can see that we have gross building and rentable area schemes already here.

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So we'll click the new button on the right hand side

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to create a new scheme,

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I'll change its name to zone in

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and then we'll click OK to create that area scheme.

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Now we need to create area plans that relate to the new area scheme.

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So from the architecture ribbon tab on the rooms and areas panel here,

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we'll click the area drop down

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and then click area plans

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in the new area plan setting here.

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We'll change the type to be the zoning scheme that we just created.

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And now we need to select the levels that we want to create the area plans for.

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So we'll select floors 123 and four

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and then we'll click ok, to create those plans,

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we'll be asked whether we want

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to automatically create area boundaries that

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are associated to the external walls.

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So we'll click. Yes,

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and then

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we'll click ok to any warnings that appear.

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And then we'll have to repeat this for each of the plans that we're creating.

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So once we've clicked, yes, for the final plan,

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we can see that we're actually left in the floor four area plan here

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because this was the last one that was created.

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Now, looking at the project browser,

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we can see that we have a group for area planned zoning.

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And if I expand this out,

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we can see that we have the area plans for the different floors that we created.

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And we can see that the floor for view

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is highlighted in bold here as that's the current active view

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looking closer at the view itself.

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We can see that we have these purple area boundary lines

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and these were the ones who are automatically created

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and associated with the external walls of the building.

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We need to add in some more area boundaries to divide the interior space

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and to do this, we'll go to the architecture room and tab

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and on the room and area panel

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or click the area boundary tool.

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Looking at the place area boundary ribbon,

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we can see that we have the draw tools available to us

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and that the pick lines tool is currently active

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looking at the options bar. We can see we have the apply area rules, options checked.

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And now all we need to do is click on the

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walls that will divide the interior space of our floor plan.

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We'll click the wall that runs along the top of the corridor here

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and then

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we'll click the vertical wall on the left

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here that returns back to the external wall.

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And then we'll also select the wall at the end

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of the corridor to close off the corridor here.

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Now, we want to close in the other side of the corridor,

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but we don't actually have a continuous wall here to select.

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So we'll draw this one in, in a moment.

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So whilst we have to pick lines tool enabled,

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we'll pick on the wall at the left here that comes back to the external wall.

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And now we'll go up to the draw panel on the ribbon

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and enable the line tool.

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And now we can draw that line across the corridor to enclose that space

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and then we'll draw down the side of the court just here to close that end off.

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We also enclose the corridor at the end of the tower too.

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And then the last bit we need to do is for the stair core here on the right hand side.

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So I'll enable the rectangle tool from the ribbon now

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and then we can just draw the rectangle over the top of the walls here.

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So now I'll click, modify to finish placing the area boundaries.

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I'm panning across to the tower just here.

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We can see that it doesn't quite follow the line of the wall.

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So I'll select the existing area boundary here

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and then using the end controls here, we can just drag this round

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to enclose that space properly

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and looking at these area boundary lines,

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we can see that some of them overlap and they don't all form perfect corners.

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However,

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this won't affect the areas as the area

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rules determine the exact location of the lines,

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depending on whether they are internal or external walls and

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the area will take account of this when it's placed.

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So now we're ready to start placing the areas.

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So from the architecture ribbon tab

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on the room and area panel here,

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we'll click on the area drop down and this time we'll click the area tool.

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Now we can see we have the tag on placement option in a board.

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So as we place the errors, they'll automatically be tagged.

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Now as we go over the building here, as we go into one of those enclosed spaces,

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we can see the area fill in that space

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and we now we just need to click to place that area in and we can

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see now with the yellow shade in here that that's filled that space for us.

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So we'll move to the next one here in the corridor and click to place that.

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And then in the core at the end

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now in the tower, we'll place one there. And then finally in the stair core,

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we can place that area there

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and then that finishes placing the areas into floor four.

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So I'll click, modify to finish this.

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So now we've got all the areas placed in,

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we're zoom in a little bit closer and we can see the tag here named as area

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with the actual square footage beneath that.

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So we can select the tag and then click on the name itself to edit that.

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And we'll assign the name core into this area just here.

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We'll repeat it for the area next to us and we'll name this one circulation

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moving across to the larger space. The first one that we placed,

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we'll select that tag and we'll name this office space

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and then we'll go across to the stairwell here

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and we'll rename this one core.

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And then for the area in the tower,

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we'll change this one to be called office space.

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So now that we have all of the areas placed for floor four.

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We can repeat this task for the rest of the

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building to create all of the areas that we need.