 Types of public bldg

◦ Bank
◦ Commercial centers
◦ Educational institutions
◦ Hotels
◦ Libraries
◦ Temples
◦ Theatres
◦ Post office
 Typical plan of Bank having
1) Basement – it is used for providing safe deposit vault
2) Ground floor – it is used for carrying out for banking
operation
3) mezzanine floor- it is used for storage & record
keeping
Use of building unit Minimum area (m2)
Primary school, high school 1000
Educational, institutional, 2000
community hall, marriage hall,
Cinema theatre, town hall

Petrol pump without service 1000

station

Petrol pump with service 2000

station

Religious places 2000

industry 500 ( built up area ≯ 20% of
plot area)

industrial More than 300 (width >15m)

 The overall Dimension of building are 20.m x
12.0m
 Mezzanine floor width 3.6m
 Basement dimension 9.8m x 7.4m
 Provide manager room 3.0m x 4.0m, staff room
3.0m x 3.6m
 Toilet blocks for ladies & men
 Factor consider in design of banks are as follows
◦ Banking space
◦ Public space
◦ Safe deposited values
◦ Sanitary units
◦ Staff facilities
 The buildings where business activities are intensively carried
out are knows as commercials centers
 Nos of shops are provided on ground floor.
 Following points should be notes in the planning of the
commercial centers
1. Location : it should be on main through roads where traffic is
congested and values are high.
2. Markets : away from markets of fruits, vegetables etc.
3. Office : Upper floor of commercial centers are generally used
as offices.
4. Beyond fourth or fifth floors can be used as residential flats.
5. Carpet area can be workout by knowing the categories of
persons likes use of office.
 Clerk 5 m2
 Steno-typist 6 to 6.5 m2
 Head or senior clerk 7.5 to 10 m2
 Head of the office 15 to 20 m2
 Officer of very high ranks 40m2
4)Parking
 The basement space is reserved for parking the vehicles.
 The building by lows of the local authority shall be is
specified the provision to be made of parking for car,
scooters and cycles.
5) Stores
 the concept of departmental stores has come into existence
to modern time
 Department stores are generally located where population is
heavily located.
 The department store, in many cases, extended for a number
of floors with efficient lift arrangement, restaurants, water
rooms, sanitary blocks etc.
 Educational institutions include:
Nursery school to the university campus.
 Typical plan for school bldg
◦ It will provide an accommodation of
◦ total 12 class room, 5on ground floor & 7 on first floor
◦ The dimension of class room 7.5m x 5.0
◦ Teacher’s room 7.5 x 5.0m
◦ The width of corridor is 2.4m
◦ The toilet blocks 1.2m x 2.40m below the stair landing on
either side
◦ The other necessary facilities such as water room , sanitary
room, play ground,
◦ Library, laboratory etc will have provided separately in
school compound
 The factors to be considered during the planning stage
of the educational bldg include following:
1) class room: is the service unit of an Education bldg.
◦ The dimensions of an individual class room depended
on the max. number of students likely to be
accommodated in it.
◦ If furniture is provided for the seating ,space is
worked out at rate of 1 to 1.2sqm
◦ Width of class room depend on types of desk & width
of gangways
◦ Sufficient ventilation, light etc provided
◦ Every class room should have independent access to
corridor
2)Grouping of activities :
◦ the planning of education bldg should take care of the
requirement of teachers & taught.
◦ Activities of school bldg mainly divided in three
categories, namely class room, demonstration
area and administration
3) location:
◦ it is provided where sufficient area available for
future development.
◦ the small school bldg should be located in the
residential area
◦ Should be away from arterial roads so as to be
away from noise, dust, and risk of accidents.
4) other amenities :
◦ The other amenities include telephone, first aid
medical unit, parking principal’s cabin.
 Types of Hospital
◦ 1) Dispensary
◦ 2) clinics
◦ 3) Maternity home
◦ 4) Nursing home
◦ 5) laboratories
◦ 6) child welfare centers
 A dispensary indicates a small health center where
medicines are prescribed and are given to the patients.
 A clinic is a place for medical examination and
treatment
 The maternity and nursing homes are meant for special
treatment and patients are allowed to stay for short
duration
 The pathological & radiological laboratories carry out
the medical tests of the human body.
 For the common public and to serve the people for
various diseases and the treatments in a single
compound.
 The general hospital is constructed at suitable site
of town & city
 And it is managed by local government body
 site :-
 Centre location of city, convenient means of
transport.
 It is desired to design building with horizontal type
layout with structure of two or three storeys.
 The vertical type of layout is desired where land
values are high.
 The important departments and facilities to be
provided in the layout of a general hospital.
 1) Administrative block
 2) Infectious disease
 3) Medical college
 4) mortuary
 5) Out patient department (OPD)
 6)Parking facilities
 7) Pathology department
 8)Radiology department
 9) staff quarters
 10) wards:- a) medical wards b) Surgical wards
 Activities:
 Selling of post cards, inland letters, covers, stamps.

 Sending/receiving telegrammed

 Receiving and distributing letters, parcels, money

orders.
 Registration of letters, parcels etc

 Recurring deposits, N.S.S, saving bank, N.S.C

 Maintaining post boxes.

 Site: in the centre of city/Town

 Entrance : Parking facilities, local and outstations

letter boxes.
 Main area Reception- corridor 2.5 m wide writing
desks, gum.
 Counters : For all activities mention above.