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    This document outlines several key principles of building planning, including aspect, prospect, privacy, grouping, roominess, flexibility, furniture requirements, circulation, lighting, elegance, economy, and sanitation. Aspect refers to the planned arrangement of doors and windows to allow sunlight, breeze, and views. Prospect provides good external appearance from certain rooms. Privacy is important, especially for bedrooms, bathrooms, and WCs. Grouping facilitates communication between rooms like kitchen and dining. Roominess maximizes space. Flexibility allows for future expansion. Furniture sizing informs room dimensions. Circulation includes passages. Lighting considers natural and artificial sources. Elegance imparts an impressive appearance. Economy stays within budget. Sanitation supports hy

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    This document outlines several key principles of building planning, including aspect, prospect, privacy, grouping, roominess, flexibility, furniture requirements, circulation, lighting, elegance, economy, and sanitation. Aspect refers to the planned arrangement of doors and windows to allow sunlight, breeze, and views. Prospect provides good external appearance from certain rooms. Privacy is important, especially for bedrooms, bathrooms, and WCs. Grouping facilitates communication between rooms like kitchen and dining. Roominess maximizes space. Flexibility allows for future expansion. Furniture sizing informs room dimensions. Circulation includes passages. Lighting considers natural and artificial sources. Elegance imparts an impressive appearance. Economy stays within budget. Sanitation supports hy

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    This document outlines several key principles of building planning, including aspect, prospect, privacy, grouping, roominess, flexibility, furniture requirements, circulation, lighting, elegance, economy, and sanitation. Aspect refers to the planned arrangement of doors and windows to allow sunlight, breeze, and views. Prospect provides good external appearance from certain rooms. Privacy is important, especially for bedrooms, bathrooms, and WCs. Grouping facilitates communication between rooms like kitchen and dining. Roominess maximizes space. Flexibility allows for future expansion. Furniture sizing informs room dimensions. Circulation includes passages. Lighting considers natural and artificial sources. Elegance imparts an impressive appearance. Economy stays within budget. Sanitation supports hy

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    Principles of

    Building Planning
    Unit II
    Principles of planning
    • Aspect
    • Prospect
    • Privacy
    • Groping
    • Romminess
    • Flexibility
    • Furniture requirements
    • Circulation
    • Lighting
    • Elegance
    • Economy
    • Sanitation
    Aspect
    • Aspect refers to the planned arrangement of the doors and
    windows of the external walls to get sunlight,breeze and a
    good view of the scenery outside.

    Types of room Suggested aspect


    Drawing room South,SE
    Bed Room West,SW
    Dining room South
    Kitchen East
    Verandah West,SW
    Prospect
    • A building is said to have prospect when it presents a good
    and pleasing appearance when seen from outside.
    • It is used to mean the external views as seen from certain
    rooms of the building.
    • It also includes the concealment of some undesirable views in
    a given outlook.
    Privacy
    • For residential building planning privacy is important
    consideration. There should be privacy from one room to
    another room and also from neighbour building and public
    building and public building and streets.
    • Privacy is necessary in the bedroom, bathroom,wc and urinals.
    Grouping
    • Grouping refers to easy communication and utility of various
    room .kitchen and dining room should be close to each other.
    • Store room should be adjacent to kitchen. WC and urinals
    should be far away from the kitchen .
    Roominess
    • Roominess refers to an arrngement of getting yhe maximum
    advantage from the minimum or limeted dimensions of a
    room.
    • The space must be utilised economically. Make the room
    rectanguler .
    • Ceiling height and breadth ratio may be 1.20 to 1.50 for
    bulilding planning.
    Flexibility
    • The planning of the building should be prepared by keeping in
    mind the future requirement.
    • Expansion should be possible economicaily without major
    altertions in planning.
    • Planning should be such that with minor adjustments , it
    becomes possible to satisfy needs when the occasion arises.
    Furniture requirement
    • During building planning the sizes of furniture to be required
    for functional utility of the rooms should be considered.
    • The size of the rooms should be decided by considering easy
    accomodation required.
    • Bed room size should accomdat bed ,cupbored, side table,
    Dressing table.
    Circulation
    • Circulation refers to providing throgh passages between
    rooms in a bulding.
    • It is necessary to permit horizontal circulation throgh
    passages, corridors and lobbies and vertical circulation
    through staircases,lifts, and ramps in bulding .
    • Passage should be provied along
    Lighting
    • Natural and artifical lighting is provided in bulding , planning.
    By proper venilation sunlight can given good lighting.
    • By using various electrical appliences artifical lighting is
    provided.
    • Glaer should be avoided.
    Elegance
    • Elegance refers to the planning of elevation and layout of the
    plan to give an impressive appearance to the bulding.
    • The proper of elevation width, height, location of door and
    windows, materials employed in construction of exterior walls
    etc. create elegance is asthetics of bulding.
    Economy
    • Bulding planning should be carried out in the financial limit of
    the cilent.
    • An engineer should know in advance, client intends to spend
    for the bulding and according material of consturaion finshing
    items stage constucion should be suggested.
    • By estimation proposed amount should be followed to avoid
    miserble faliure of bulding construction project.
    sanitation
    • Provision for cleanliness , lighting and ventilation in sanitary
    units avoid growth of bacteria and spread of disease
    condition.
    • The ventilators in bath w.c permit sunlight and air circulation
    to maintain hygenic conditon the kitchen sholud have glazed
    tiles dedo

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