[Tagging] Multiple purposes for buildings

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 10:58:25 GMT 2013


2013/1/2 Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>:
> In the UK many premiere inns are converted office buildings.


yes, offices don't have a lot of requirements, also depending on the
intended standard (e.g. if you need air conditioning but you don't
want to see it, and a certain floor height, you might get problems,
but if you decide not to put aircon or to have visible tubes it might
be possible, etc.). For certain locations (central=expensive) and use
cases you might tear down to building and build it anew, for instance
at Berlin Alexanderplatz they were tearing down 10 storey office
buildings to rebuild new office buildings because the structure (axxis
distances) of the 60ies socialist buildings weren't considered to be
reasonably convertible to current office requirements (you would have
wasted too much space for certain (asked for) configurations which was
too expensive there). At least that's what they told me at Treuhand
when I asked them about.


>  How does one go about mapping a row of terraced houses, where a single
> building will contain 20 our so houses, often with a corner shop at the end?
> I would have drawn each house to maintain numbering, is that the correct
> way?


+1, yes I'd map single houses (connected on the sides) and not
consider them "one big building" (I am not very familiar with English
terraced houses, but I guess they are structurally independent, i.e.
they do have each their own lateral walls?). If they are indeed "one
big building" you could use building parts to model the single
units/houses.

Cheers,
Martin



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