Space Arrangements are required in addition of our previous articles discussing about stairs construction. With the perfect space arrangements, usage of stairs in proportional place, will rescue more people during unwanted disaster that endanger the buildings.
Two or three level floor might be more easier to decide space for escape door or stairs, but in high tower/skyscraper building, you got to look on every angle of aspects before deciding it. As an example typical design for office tower floors which is a rectangular core with a perimeter ring corridor for tenants and building service personnel to access the spaces within the core. This floor plan does away with the ring corridor by including an internal central corridor within the core. These kind of arrangement has several advantages, such as:
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Building a house, an apartment, office building, campus/university got its own interest things. Within those, the character would be different, the aspect on building the structure and planning ahead also need to be consider better.
For those we need master plans that guide all the aspect, including security planning. You’ll see that building owners and facility managers will oriented their live on the buildings the live, they will rely on master planning to meet long-term facility and operational goals.
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Building structure, when you heard the word you might assumed that we’re going to talk about metal, wood, or other material. That things we will discuss later, but the most important structure is planning. With a good planning, all other material will come along.
Remember the 9/11 on new york, when planes get through WTC building in New York, that will warn us about the security of the building. Also remember the earth quake that recently happened on all over the world, Japan, Hawaii, and many other countries, its showing how vulnerable buildings are. Does skyscraper really that dangerous? whose fault is that? engineering team or building structure?
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