Design for rentals varies depending on there the building is going to be located. In high income areas, designs are best kept larger than the minimum size and are more complicated. This is because the target clientele will be able to afford the high rents that will be charged due to the higher cost of land and constructing the house.
In design for rental units, it’s prudent to maximize on the land use by having as many units as the law can permit. The local authority controls the maximum ground coverage that the building can cover. In most areas around Nairobi the ground coverage is 50% .This means that the ground floor cannot exceed half the size of the plot.
To maximize land use, rentals are best designed as flats or apartments. This is one homogenous block with several rental units within it. This design is compact and hence saves a lot of costs in terms of economies of scale during construction and saves on land.
In design of apartments, care should be taken so as common space such as stairways, passages and balconies are well defined and give a sense of ownership to the residents living closest to them. This ensures that these spaces are kept clean and are not used as dumping grounds.
Due to the compact nature of these designs, a small piece of land can hold many units hence a need for parking space. Vehicle ownership in Kenya is increasing rapidly per household. Local authorities in Kenya specify that each unit should require 1.5 cars parking space. To accommodate this, angle parking design which can take in more cars is important. If this is not enough, the ground floor can be kept free and supported by reinforced concrete columns creating more space for car parking.
Utility space for washing and drying clothes also becomes scarce in apartment designs. To create this space, the roof tops become very handy for this.
It’s the honors of your architect to come up with solutions to maximize land use while creating comfortable units for the tenants.
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The back span of the cantilevered joist (into the building) must be at least twice the cantilevered distance, but a 3:1 ratio is preferred.
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These are structures that are very solid and hard, usually stone. That's powerful.
Also, they're supporting some of the heaviest parts of buildings and structures, which is powerful. I hope this helps.
You can find a lot of construction detail on sites associated with the "9/11 Truth Movement." You see the 9/11 Commission report stated that there was no internal steel support columns, but if you check the truther's site, you will see pictures of the twin tower construction with 38 steel support columns. If the truther's are right, then the 9/11 Commission progressive collapse theory is all wet. They've agreed that progressive collapse is impossible, but they don't have a plausible second explanation.
The PBS special is not reliable. It ignores the fact that the steel support in the center would have protruded. The steel support structure appears to have been undermined and cut. In other words, the construction of the towers suggests that the destruction was a planned demolition.
The core was not hollow, despite what the previous administration wants you to believe.