Rough draft and guideline of dorm layouts

[overlord-zordon.livejournal.com]

Okay, everyone -- this is Phase 1 of my ongoing project to standardize the dorm layout and some of its conventions. There was a whole plan where I was going to do these in TurboCAD and they were going to look all shiny and professional. There's just one problem. I haven't learned to use TurboCAD yet. So you get the rough Photoshop mockups which are not to scale. But there are some colors. Kinda.




A few notes on these floors.
Yes, the second floor has adjoining rooms 239 and 240, It's a quirk of the second floor. Because it's a quirky dorm -- as befits a quirky (can we grossly understate any more?) school.

Room 404 on the fourth floor is not occupied. There's a good reason for this, and a bad joke. Room 404 technically exists. It's on all the floor plans. It's just never been found.

Yes, Hamlet and Duo live alone on the sixth (you have no idea how close I came to not correcting my "Sith" typo) floor. It has a lot of rooms. But for some reason they fit into the same amount of space as the lower floors.

There are one or two suites on each floor; i.e. mparker17's on 2, and iwasawesome and allie_cameron's on the fourth. The actual number has yet to be determined. These suites should be the only rooms besides the dorm common rooms equipped with kitchenettes, except for the teachers' quarters on the first floor.. (And thanks to iwasawesome for keeping it reasonable: see her comment here for an idea of exactly what a suite kitchenette should entail.)





There are extra rooms on the first floor, so it actually kind of sticks out further than the other floors do, and the gym is appended to it.


ETA: Room numbers run from low on the common-room end to high. Because carter_i_am keeps catching these things for me, she gets a cookie.

Each floor has common bathrooms; because of the diversity of student culture here, there are a limited number of rooms on each floor with their own private bathrooms. Some of us have them, some don't, but effective this semester students whose cultural background might make them more uncomfortable using the common bathrooms will be getting priority pick of those. (There's tentacle monsters that occasionally pop up in the second floor common bathroom plumbing. Watch your feet.)

You'll notice I haven't done the attics yet. This is because I honestly don't have a clear picture in my head of what the attics are laid out like, so for those of you who live/lived on the attic level? Your input on how you picture the floor plan would be greatly appreciated. I'm assuming they're on the same level as what is the rest of the dorm roof.

Again, this is a rough draft, and hasn't taken into account any of the odd quirks everybody else has come up with. Within reason, I'm totally open to incorporating those into the ongoing dorm standardization project, so post those in the comments here, please!

Comments

[fh_jackass]

Ooh, very cool!

At one point (as Kitty) I said there was a small dance room attached to the gym. I was thinking there might be a few smaller rooms that opened into the main gym.

[overlord-zordon.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the main gym is definitely sizeable. Heck, I'll even say it's got two stories to accomodate everything.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

At the risk of infecting everyone with anal-retentiveness, which way do the numbers run, left to right? From high to low or low to high?

[overlord-zordon.livejournal.com]

Good point, I forgot to add that.

Low room numbers start on the common room side. I'll edit to add that now -- this is the second time this week you've caught something for me! There may have to be cookies.

[swerval_zero]

Where are the common kitchens?

[overlord-zordon.livejournal.com]

In the common rooms.

*pause*

Which are totally bigger than they look in those very not-to-scale diagrams.

[sensethevisions]

*grins*

I know that room #412 has its own bathroom, but not a kitchen. :)

Also? This layout is very helpful. :)

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I'll add that to the spreadsheet, then. Thanks for letting me know.

[anole-x.livejournal.com]

Are the private bathrooms in specific areas on each floor, or are they sproatic? Since Victor (room 335) has his own bathroom, it's technically taking up space that his neighbor could use for part of his/her room, which messes up the layout. Going with that as well, does that mean that rooms 235, 435, and whatever have the same layout as Victor's room?

I'm not trying to confuse, but clarify for the final version. :)

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

It is now my turn to be too lazy to switch logins.

They're kind of sporadic, actually, and all the room layouts are kind of different. Part of this is because when the game started, all we pretty much knew about the dorms is that there were six floors with an attic level and a tower room, and people's room numbers. Everything else just sort of got made up as necessary, but that's getting to be a little too inconsistent, hence the standardization.

Doing a floorplan for every room in the dorms is a little too time-consuming though, and I'm not doing it, so I'm going to fall back on the old "this place is quirky" mainstay. Feel free to assume whatever floor plan you want for your room, as long as it stays within reasonable dorm room proportions.

Again, that layout? So very not to scale.

[soldtoarmenians]

If anyone cares, 406 is one of the ones with a bathroom, not necessarily because anybody specifically needed due to character-quirks; just because we already established in plot that there was one. (Though amusingly it was not that long ago, and involved a convo between me and notstakedyet that went "Hey formerly evil former roomie, new roomie just asked if we have an en-suite bathroom. Uh. do we?" .... "Um. ....Yes! Yes, we do. Despite having never mentioned it before." ... "Yay! Then she can go take her shower now."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Ooo. Hee. Cool. I'll add that to the spreadsheet too, then.

Mostly just so I can keep track of how many there are.

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

*nods* thank you. *smiles*

[can_be_more]

Noting that both 238 and 239/240 have been played as having a bathroom, and I think kitchen. (Not sure about 239/240, actually)

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

238 has been played as having a small kitchen complete with fridge, stove, and sink, and a bathroom complete with a tub-sized shower which is now almost completely filled with Angel's haircare products.

[drgrissom.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, you just gave me a shout-out and now I'm going to be a dick. Classic move on my part.

A long, looong time ago, through various admins and crap like that, it was determined the first floor was (in some configuration of undetermined, whatever) (because I asked due to tehOCD) ...

Faculty apartments - middle common room - Kids rooms

Also, for various sundry purposes, it has been long established that Grissom and Sara's apartments share a wall (146 and 147) because poor, lame-ass Grissom had to hear Sara having boatloads of sex before they got together (they weren't really supposed to ever get together, but that's another story) and Sara also claimed a corner room (147 apparently), like, the first day of FH.

And then we had gremlins half knock the apartment wall down, so it was one apartment, although easily split back in two if necessary.

With that in mind, OCD Diagram (http://www.livejournal.com/users/drgrissom/11083.html).

And that being said, and amplifying my dick-dom, OCD layout of 422/424 (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a347/fandomhighstuff/tworoom.gif). Also, the kitchenette is based off of this (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a347/fandomhighstuff/kitchenette-sm.jpg), but without the palm trees omg.

So, I can modify this, but the faculty apartments (on the first floor) thing is kind of throwing me off, so I don't know how. I'm flexible, but my brain can't handle computing a solution this drunk late. Let me know?

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

By previous mentionings, room 112 had it's own bathroom, mini-fridge, microwave, but no kitchen.

Room 409 just has two large closets.

Room 217

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Room 217 has a bathroom, I think a mini fridge as well but for sure has a bathroom. (Had a thread in the bathroom i.e. with Chiana)

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Cameron has used a shower in his room as well for different reasons. Besides that he might have a mini-fridge and a microwave, but I never established a kitchen so...

I hope that's alright.

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Yup, we've3 mentioned a bathroom in #226 several times, but never a kitchen.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

We've been playing the West Attic room as having 3 small private rooms, a shared bathroom, and it's own sort of living/common room with at least a microwave and mini-fridge.

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Well, Veronica & Piper baked cookies in the East Attic, so I assume there's a small stove in there :)

But we've played it as having three small private bedrooms, a shared bathroom and the common area as well:)

[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

507 was established as a two-bedroom suite [yay tiny kitchenette!] long ago with former roommates, and nadiathesaint and I have kept it that way.

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Room 216 has a bathroom and small kitchen.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Are there windows in the common romms? And is there a clear view to the ocean from, say, the 5th floor common room?

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Because if there aren't, there will be... At least on the 5th floor. :)

[alchemic-bean.livejournal.com]

I guess #229's somewhere in the middle now, once upon a time it was by the stairwell.

Not that Ed or I really care. I just want an idea of where I'm Ed's at. XD

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Dorm 306 floorplan (http://www.livejournal.com/users/psycho_barbie/18129.html#cutid1), which now seems to have windows which open into the boys bathroom. ;)

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Dude! I bet they're those cool one way mirrors. Tssss!

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John, in 101, has a private bathroom and a kitchenette. Said kitchenette was built by John in pieces in shop class and is built into the wall separating the bathroom from the room room. it's also totally bitchin, 'specially with the Muhammed Ali griller

[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

If you want some more details about the sixth floor, here's some of the notes I've compiled on it not because I might be planning to do something with it later, oh no:

-since room #666 used to be occupied, it's assumed that the floor has 70 room to it. It still fits into the same amount of space as all the other floors, but not because the rooms are any smaller.

-likewise, the sixth floor common room is twice the size as all the other ones, but still looks the same from the outside.

-Apparently, rooms 610-615 have "collapsed into hypercubes from dimensional warping". Don't ask me what that means; I didn't come up with it.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

227 has a closet and a bathroom as well as a Synthetron, two beds (used to be a double), and wall-to-wall shelves fulla junk important stuff. 225 has a bed that Bridge will promptly be getting rid of (because he doesn't need three!), a desk, and a closet.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

213 has a bathroom (think I mentioned it to you, actually), and a dismantled bunk bed that has now become a double. Also, a mini-fridge, and this weekend there will be installations of some stuff in the general vicinity of the ceiling - shelves and a hammock for Vladdie, to be precise.

My OCD floorplan goes up tonight, yo.

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to add again, it was brought to my attention that room 217 has a small kitchenette I had forgotten about that thread that included the kitchenette.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Also, randomly? All the rooms except 201, 225, 227, and 306 should have key locks. Unless their occupants installed their own electronic ones.