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Development of the floor plan

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Development of the floor plan

- [Instructor] Now, before we actually get started building the structure of the house, let's talk a little bit about some processes that you wanna use for creating floor plans. Now floor plans are really the heart of the building. Now you can do floor plans in a number of different ways, I like to categorize them in two ways. One is inside out, so the interior of the house defines the exterior. So you create the rooms, you create the functionality of the house, and that determines where all of the exterior walls are located. Now we can also do outside in, which is what we're doing here. So we create the exterior first, and this is the massing study that we did, and then, from that, we derive the interior. Now you can certainly go back and forth between methods. So if you start with the exterior and you find the interior doesn't quite fit, you may have to push out a wall or change things. And that brings us to the third point which is you need to plan for revision. So you wanna keep…

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