Anything you need to know

• Property lines are like invisible fences that show where one person's land stops and another's starts. Properly lines also we can say legal boundary lines.

• Site area = area in the property lines

• Building area = Calculate everything from the outside walls of the building to be built.

• Site cover = Building area / Site area (expressed as a percentage)

• Gross floor area is basically the total space inside a building if you measure from the inside of the outer walls on each floor. measured at a height of 1.4 meters above the floor.

Includes;

1. the area of a mezzanine

2. habitable rooms in a basement or an attic

3. any shop, auditorium, cinema, and the like, in a basement or attic

4. Foyer

excludes;

1. any area for common vertical circulation, such as lifts and stairs

2. any basement—

3. storage

4. vehicular access, loading areas, garbage and services

5. plant rooms, lift towers and other areas used exclusively for mechanical services or ducting

6. car parking to meet any requirements of the consent authority (including access to that car parking)

7. any space used for the loading or unloading of goods (including access to it),

8. terraces and balconies with outer walls less than 1.4 metres high

9. voids above a floor at the level of a storey or storey above.

• Floor Space Ratio (FSR) = total gross floor area / Site area = x.xxx : 1

• Common open space is a public space that is accessible to everyone.

• Outdoor area for Childcare Center

1. Exclude = garden, stairs, ramps, store

2. Include = gaden veggie which kids can planting, play area

• Storage for Childcare Center

1. Generally use 2400mm height to calculate the cubic meter. if the internal storage doesnt comply with 0.2 cu.m per child, increase to 2700mm.

2. For storage outdoorn = 0.3 cu.m per child

• Minimum cu.m storage in apartment

1. Bed 1= 3.0 cu.m

2. Bed 2 = 4.0 cu.m

3. Bed 3 = 5.0 cu.m

• Minimum Bedroom width & area in apartment

1. Bed 1 = 3000mm minimum width & 10 sq.m min area

2. Bed 2 = 3000mm minimum width & 9 sq.m min area 

• Minimum Living room width in apartment

1. Bed 1 = 3600mm 

2. Bed 2 = 4000mm

• Hard landscape

1. Include = stone for path, driveway, sunken pit, stairs, pool, anything concrete.

• Soft landscape

1. Include = garden veg patch, anything soil

• Driveway section = The cross fall cant be steper than 1:25