Room (ROOM)

The Room element is an enclosed internal space enclosed by walls, floors and ceilings and has one or more doors allowing access to adjoining space. The walls may have windows in them or there may be holes in the walls that allow equipment, pipes, cables or ducting to pass from adjoining spaces.

Although some spaces are completely enclosed by the walls etc., others may not be, for example, two spaces may be partially separated by a wall containing openings with no physical separator. The two spaces could be considered to be a single room with internal dividers or two separate spaces depending on how the designer wants them to be handled.

The data model describes both the physical aspects of an enclose space along with requirements on that space; the later can be used as checks against the definition or the help in the design of the enclosed space.

The Room element is positioned relative to the elevation component of the Building Level element and has an XY position on the plane of the elevation, its angular offset or rotation is taken about the Z axis of orientation as indicated in the image below.