Architects: Statistics on Building Plans/layout

D.P.

D.P.

D.P.

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This is a long shot but:

For some research on my PhD it would be very nice if I can have some statistical information on typical buildings. The kinds of things I am interested in is the average width of corridors, ceiling heights, office sizes (and the range of normal values along with the averages.

Even more interesting would be things like typical corridor lengths and branching factors (are most branches 2-way, 3-way etc). Any statistical distribution of this information would be perfect.

This data likely varies between building types, so an average detached house will be different to a shopping mall to a university campus or hospital. Separate data on different building types would be superb.

I want to make a robotic search algorithm that exploits the structure of indoor environments and uses the statistical distribution of the common design elements to optimize the search strategy. This data can then also be used within a graph.-theoretic approach to prove optimal graph traversal times
 
Get on tothe british standards website. This is exactly what im doing at uni at the mo and designing my own building. There is a lot of data in BS8110 which refers to structural layout of buildings. Also try the .gov health and safety website for corridor and stair widths.

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In general not everything follows rules when designing so you may become very unstuck if you want accurate data. There are allways safety factors involved (sometimes very silly indeed) and there are different standards and codes of pratice. The two biggies are British Standards and Euro Codes. I'd get yourself to the civil engineering department at uni if you want propper advice. Im only scrapingt he top of the iceberg
 
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Sounds like fun lol
There are obviously building regs which dictate minimum ceiling heights, corridor widths, and such depending on building type, which I can easily give you. I'll take a look in the departmental library when I'm in Uni this afternoon to see what is available statistically on the more varied stuff. Don't know what there will be on corridor branching but I'll have a look, Would point you in the direction of the "Architect's Pocket Book" by Charlotte Baden-Powell which is handy for these sort regulation dimensions it sometimes gives averages too tiz a fair bit cheaper than a full on metrics handbook too

edit:Beaten lol
 
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You'll probably find most buildings are heavily influenced by the Metrics Handbook. Ceiling heights, corridor widths, etc all covered in there (plus lots of other stuff you'd probably never even thought about).

Not sure where you'd find statistical data, if such a thing exists! :confused: :)
 
I assume you can access this through your uni with an athens password. This is how I get mine or did befor I forgot my password. Reading back now. You'd be better of getting an architects code book which will have all this data. What I blabbled on about is more a lot the structural side of things.
 
Thanks for the input.
Seem like I can get info on stnard corridor sizes.

The statistical information on corridor lengths and branching factors looks like it will be difficult to find.
 
Building Regulations, Metric Handbook, Architect's Pocket book will all be useful but not give statistics, just requirements and recommendations.
 
DB_SamX said:
Building Regulations, Metric Handbook, Architect's Pocket book will all be useful but not give statistics, just requirements and recommendations.
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As I've found.

I might get a student to construct some statistics from open source layouts/plans.
 
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