Guide to designing a 2 bed apartment/house?

Designing a 2-bed apartment/house is not rocket science. It involves a sense of understanding of the spaces within a household with 2 bedrooms. It is important take into account the number of people that will be using the apartment/house and most importantly the minimum sizes of the rooms to ensure that people are able to live in comfortable.

It is a simple three step procedure:

Step One:

Conducting live casestudies and doing a literature casestudy.

Live casestudy – it is important to visit various 2 bed properties to get an idea of the number of rooms, sizes of rooms and number of people using that apartment.

Following aspects have to be studied whilst conducting a case study:

• study the circulation,
• the requirements,
• calculate the number of people it caters to;
• calculate the areas of individual spaces such as bedroom, bathroom, Hall, Dining, Kitchen, Utility etc.

Also, the study of connectivity of the spaces is very important and has to be done in order to get the functional aspect of the design right.

Literature casestudies – you will find numerous floor plans on the internet posted by people from all over the world. Whilst you do not want to copy them, going through different floor plans would give you an idea of the variety that can be created.

Step two:

Listing the requirements:

1. Entrance Foyer
2. Living room
3. Kitchen/dining room
4. Master Bedroom (with an attached bathroom)
5. Second bedroom
6. Common toilet
7. Store/utility room
8. Patio
9. Garden