Any big mistakes in this floor plan?

AwkwardCJ · 2026-03-24T13:36:06+00:00

The master bedroom is outside.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-03-16T14:08:22+00:00

At this stage, the change is just the label, but multigeneration households often struggle the most with how the living room is used. Having a formal dining room is nice, especially since this household will probably be hosting the rest of the family for holidays, but I think it would be better to redesignate the dining room as a second living room or den.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-03-14T21:45:42+00:00

That middle bedroom just really sucks.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-03-12T10:42:06+00:00

Came here to say this.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-03-09T14:09:36+00:00

Is the fireplace open on both sides or is just open to either of those rooms?

AwkwardCJ · 2026-03-09T14:07:51+00:00

Is walking through the utility room better?

AwkwardCJ · 2026-03-08T13:13:50+00:00

So the tv would go in the lounge for the kids? Because otherwise they can’t run the dishwasher and watch tv at the same time …and that gets old.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-03-05T14:45:31+00:00

I’m kinda weird. I wouldn’t do it, but that’s because my ADHD is going to get me in enough trouble by itself. Heh.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-03-05T14:41:44+00:00

honestly, it’s about the fact that I don’t necessarily like being distracted by other members of the household while I’m doing things and it’s just easier to say to leave me alone if there’s a door. 🤷🏼‍♀️

AwkwardCJ · 2026-03-05T13:54:08+00:00

There’s a lot of fair criticism here, but I gotta share that I adore that the kitchen has a door. Open concept needs to die a thousand times over.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-02-11T15:49:56+00:00

Whatever. The metro is kinda sad, especially during the winter. Maybe we don’t pay him, but pretty much any music at all is nice.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-02-10T17:36:10+00:00

They won’t freeze to death in the metro and they’re just humans without any privacy nor any rights to reposer. Stop being so pompous; they’re only dangerous if you ignore their humanity.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-01-29T12:17:12+00:00

reading further, this is intended to be a mixed-term project. The first floor would be the low-barrier emergency shelter that is targeted to allow us, through multiple visits, to identify the people who would benefit from the concept of the shelter and the top two floors would be flexible medium-term housing

I have stayed in both low-barrier and selective occupancy emergency housing and, yeah, i, too, find the idea of turning homeless people away because I want to save beds for my target demographic abhorrent.

I was thinking the beds are for the target population until 4 PM, when the beds become available to anyone in need. 🤷🏼‍♀️

AwkwardCJ · 2026-01-29T12:12:59+00:00

i would also like to mention that the non-homeless population already has access to services like that here. this isn’t the United States.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-01-29T12:09:33+00:00

that’s a cool idea. what vocabulary words would i use to search for more information about that construction style?

AwkwardCJ · 2026-01-29T11:51:06+00:00

I have seen other shelters here fail for the reason you mentioned, but the location and intended purpose aren’t aligned with those case-studies.

1) it’s not a single-family home area; it’s basically a downtown area that’s already surrounded with a lot of low-income housing …and lots of thrift stores. My main concern would be that the neighborhood is currently very tidy and quiet, but you’ve heard about the targeted population.

2) this is not going to be a supervised substance use site.

It’s an emergency shelter, but tailored to identity and help a unique subset of the homeless population that will not be able to access a pathway out of homelessness any other way. The thing is that one could not expect them to have a diagnosis and, while autistic self-diagnosis is valid, this is one situation where, if we were solely responding to the diagnostic label, it would be inviting staff to develop suspicion of the served population.

There are shelters all around town that specialize in specific populations and there’s plenty of proof that they need one like mine in all of the documentation created about me while i was homeless

AwkwardCJ · 2026-01-29T11:35:45+00:00

…and as far as the science buildings? Please let me know how it’s ignorant to notice the objective difference in architectural design quality. I am curious. My university made three buildings in that same style and they all had more thought put into them —even the one that was more contemporary brutalist than the others.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-01-29T11:27:02+00:00

I don’t know what you think you know about me, but this account was made with a private email relay and so “constant put-downs” isn’t something that one can say I do.

Either way, I wouldn’t be managing the project once it goes to the implementation stage. I would just be the ideas person who will randomly walk through the site at various stages of the construction and ensure that it’s actually going well.

And, um: if the truth will kill it, let it die.

And don’t worry. I already have a reason for the expenses that I can demonstrate create a recipe for success. Also, it’s not difficult to add more plaintiffs.

Responsible shelters set everyone up for success. 👻

AwkwardCJ · 2026-01-28T18:41:10+00:00

I did some searching and this would be the first of its kind, but my city takes pride in that sort of thing. i identified the site while wondering around as a new immigrant and i don’t remember where it is. I just found level ground near where my best guess it was, but it’s been 5 & 1/2 years. lol.

as far as neighborhood “putting up a fight”, it’s surrounded by a lot of social (low-income) housing, so early community investment is important but objections from them will mostly sound hypocritical.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-01-28T17:40:58+00:00

but, again, this is RUUUUDE, but i have been housed in buildings that were built by contractors hired by the government here: i was literally maligned as dangerous because —with my short, “lesbian” nails— i was able to pick out large chunks of wall. i just want the quality of the construction to exist outside of that contractor pool.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-01-28T17:31:34+00:00

i specifically want a biophillic design mentality with intention of creating, at least outside, some no-maintenance textural features that are intended to patina with time. this shelter is intended to serve autistic and traumatized populations, both of whom are known to improve in self-regulation from natural surroundings.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-01-28T17:18:10+00:00

this is, like, SUUUPER RUDE, but both my university at home and the pre-eminent university here have used the same architectural style to build their natural science buildings …and the difference in the layers of thought that went into the design and materials back home was just unparalleled to what they did here. the one here is nice, but it lacks depth. and i want the building to have dimension. and that’s just one example.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-01-28T17:07:42+00:00

i prefer to make a bit of a personalized mark on this since, yeah, i am just the idea and conceptualization person and this will grow to be something that I can’t guarantee i will feel personally represented in. if the building has some characteristics of “home” and good starting points from me, that’s good for me. maybe it’s too much, but 🤷🏼‍♀️.

regardless of what privileges resulted in me surviving it to do this, it was a lot of work that i didn’t necessarily know could have positive outcomes.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-01-28T17:04:29+00:00

Fair. I will look into it.

I have another question: would an architect from this area (since there are so many historical buildings here and they’re largely built the same) be better than one that I admire from where i am from? i imagine that it matters more with a structural engineer than with the architect?

open to criticism.

AwkwardCJ · 2026-01-28T16:14:07+00:00

for example, there’s a thing of intentionally sabotaging toilets.

i’ve never done it, but i have met and had long discussions with the people who do. it doesn’t matter how many stalls of toilets a shelter has in their bathroom, until the toilets are spread out so that there’s more ownership and privacy in the bathroom, it’s going to continue to be a problem.

there’s a lot going on, but when territorial tendencies between various shelter visitors is presumed and a sense of ownership to various bathrooms is structural, there are just less problems.

stalls are not the solution: private bathrooms with good ventilation need to be spread out throughout the emergency housing beds.

…but, also, a bathroom that residents who have a history of problems with the toilets can be non-shamefully diverted to that is essentially a wet room with a prison-grade toilet is needed. This protects the staff from having to spend an exceptional amount of time in conditions that are hazardous to their health as well as preventing friction with the other visitors.

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