Design Philosophy, Fire Strategy and Performance Information of a Building

Design philosophy, Fire strategy and Performance Information of a Building
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Design philosophy - provide a concise explanation of your design approach.
For the main house, the partitioning of the rooms have been done to ensure space is
efficiently managed so that furniture can fit it well. The bed can fit in the bedroom and still give
enough space for the occupant to freely and comfortably move around the room. The bedroom is
equipped with a wardrobe to provide space for storage of clothes and other belongings. The
occupant being an academician, room has been allocated for use as a study. Notably, the
washroom is located at one of the corners of the room so as to ease the process of draining waste
from this particular area. The washroom is equipped with all the sanitary ware including wash
hand basin, water closet and a shower cubicle. The sanitary ware are strategically placed in the
room to enable the occupant use them freely and without obstruction (Smith 2015 p. 21). For
instance, water closet location observes the BS standards. The WC has enough space around it so
as to allow the user free access. The design also maximizes the available space by ensuring that
the house has is equipped with a living room and kitchen to facilitate the comfort ability of the
occupant. The main entrance door opens into the living room. Notably, the kitchen and living are
all incorporated into one space with no partition to maximize on the already limited space. All
the rooms in this case are well ventilated with permanent ventilation assigned to allow for natural
air circulation. The space is then covered with a pitched roof wide enough to contain a solar
water heater for the sake of hot water supply to the building. At the roof, insulation has been
done to help in regulating the thermal conditions of the rooms (Smith 2015 p. 47). Notably, rain
water drainage is key as guttering has been done all over the roof. Clearly, the house has been
designed to act as a resident to an individual.
For the extension, there are two floors which will act as classrooms. At ground floor
level, the entrance opens into an open space where desks can be located to act as office. Also, the

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teaching room is situated at this level with toilet for people living with disabilities so as to
conform to the building regulations. The door to the disabled toilet from the outside to maintain
privacy for the user (Smith 2015 p. 52). The teaching room is equipped with a kitchen sink so as
to increase hygiene and easy access to water. At ground level, there are two ways of access to
first floor, that is, the staircase and the lift which caters for PLWD (Smith 2015 p. 53). Notably,
fire exit is provided too for easy escape from the building in case of any emergency since it’s
would be a busy place. At first, a toilet is provided at far corner for ease in drainage. The toilet
has a permanent ventilation for easy in air circulation. Emergency exit is provided at this level as
well for easy escape. Lastly, rain water drainage is consider by design of gutters.
Picture 1: Ground floor furniture layout plan with Extension

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Picture 2: First floor extension furniture layout plan
An account of your thermal performance expectations for the house and for the extension
The thermal performance of this specific building was critically analysed both for the
house and the extension. Energy transfer for the building was completely treated different as to
that of the extension. There are different modes of heat transfer that has been taken into
consideration when accounting for the energy performance of this specific structures. The
performance anticipated for the main house is distinct from that of the expectation. This is due to
the number of occupants of the room, mode of occupation and height above the ground among
other factors. Therefore, this explains the difference in wall, windows and door size for these
structures (Lillesand 2016 p. 18). Since the main house would have limited number of occupants
presumably 3 maximum, the amount of heat that would be emitted would be less. Therefore, the