Commercial Property Lease Space, Build Out
CAD Design Drawing
in Plan View & in Perspective
"If you must cut corners in home designing and home building, first cut those corners that blind you from building within your means." AG
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The Autocad Granddad has made other references to this commercial property lease space CAD design work of retail and light industrial space, as seen in —
Builder HOME Drawing, Plans & Elevations, Schematics —
Commercial Leasehold Improvement, Electrical Wiring Diagram
Commercial Leasehold Improvement, Tutorial and Electrical Wiring Diagram
Schematics, Commercial Leasehold Improvement, Plumbing Layout.
The CAD commercial design drawing was previously thought out carefully by the prospective lessee. The prospective lessee requires a minimum of 2000 square feet floor area commercial property lease space to build out maximum storage area. The lessee also requires two commercial showroom areas with 10' ceilings and two commercial work areas with at least 12' ceilings. The showrooms should be about 400 square feet each, and they should adjoin. The work areas should be contiguous, but physically separated. Ample lighting and active ventilation are both very important (see BUILDER HOME Drawing, Plans & Elevations, Schematics, Commercial Leasehold Improvement, Electrical Wiring Diagram).
A possible commercial property lease space for buildout has been identified by the time the Autocad Granddad arrives on the scene. Based on the lessee's laundry list, two white boxes were needed for buildout, each at about 20' x 50' and next to each other.
The showroom configuration allows over-ceiling storage (albeit with 6' apx. clearances, still locally permissible as uninhabited space) covering 800' apx. additionally.
Here's the CAD drawing footprint of the two abutting commercial space white boxes at 20' x 50' apx. each, in plan view.
Next, we'll see an in-perspective view from the front face in a CAD design drawing. This one shows the showroom partitions separating these areas from the backside work areas, and includes built-in display areas by each of the 10' wide front windows.
You can see that the Autocad Granddad added wire frames of the existing sheetrock walls for added dimensionality. Further, you can see now that he left the two 1/2-baths in plan view as two-dimensional commercial drawing, so they show up flat as Kansas in this 3d home design perspective.
What you cannot see at this distance is that each stick of lumber is both dimensioned as actual, cut to length, and fitted in place. Close up, these structural pieces can be identified, defined, and described visually down to fractional inches . . . from the angle of your choice.
This next shot's a little weird. It's to show another aspect of Autocad 2006 power in visualizing, but it'll take a little getting used to. This view is from the same place as the last. It drops out the partition and display framing we've just seen, and adds framing specifically for doors, both to make the doorways themselves and to reframe existing partitions to accommodate the new passages. You'll also see a few odds-and-ends framing members here and there to respect (by example to an inspector) minor adjustments to existing structure, in order to let the new partitions soundly to the existing partitions. There are several doors for framing: between the showrooms; from the right-hand showroom to the adjacent work area; between the work areas; and between the storage areas up above. (It's the last one that will get you wondering without a warning about what it is.) The AG also added plywood (by the 4'x8' sheet) to the storage area, and you'll see plywood sections by the windows for the tops to the two display decks. (You bet, the flooring is drawn at 3/4" thickness and the display at 1/2". His word's good on that. His word's always good. Nope, the old geezer didn't add the tongues and grooves to the flooring . . . but he could have if he had wanted to.) Another CAD commercial design drawing in perspective.
We have one last CAD commercial design drawing in perspective to show for right now, and that's some of the railing to the storage area, the stairs to the storage area and the stair railing. Appreciate, please, that this stair is not only proportionate, to scale, and to code, but that it is also so precisely drawn that takeoffs from it could be delivered directly to the carpenter's sawhorses for home building. In other words, this stairway ain't your graphic artist grandfather's pretty picture. The view is from the back right. The storage floor plywood is left in to help with your perspective of the rest of the drawing.
We'll have to cool it a while on this project. The prospective space turned out too pricey to occupy as built out and we've trimmed this design down to its bones. So now we're looking for bigger, cheaper space. Who knows?
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Well, the Autocad Granddad supposes that the Shadow knows, too. The lessor wanted too much for too little. So it goes.
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We have moved on to another leasehold opportunity. Same basic plan with the retail shop up front and the work shop in the back. The space is different. Now, the two white box bays on which we focus total 50' across and 60' deep with only about 14' of ceiling height (it slopes from about 15' in front down to about 13' in back). That means a lot more first-floor area with which to work, but no second-floor storage at least immediately, and certainly not ever to the scale contemplated previously.
To keep the bills down, this home drawing so far are only in 2d home design plan view. The first is really quite similar to the last place contemplated, adding an office space interior to the build out and a central kitchen space. The limitation of consequence here – such limitation as it is – arises in the plumbing. These boxes are brand new. All the drain plumbing is sunk below grade, presurveyed for re-siting, and concrete padded over. Each major drain is 20' back from the front face and 5' in on a side line. We're expecting that our two bays will have the plumbing paired to the inside. If not, we can shift things around in a hurry.
The toughie here is that these drain facilities become somewhat difficult to work around given our own functional imperative. For our purposes, they are very close to the front end, almost too close. And, should we get the interior pairing we expect, the sites are also close together to each other, again almost too close. However, we can wander about 5' or so from these drain site marks to locate a bog or a shower, and the contractors simply chop a channel from the fixture site to the drain site. As it turns out, we did design around the drain constraints, but posed problems were remarkably frequent.
Here's the first plan view, with the retail area symmetrically laid out up front.
There is one central passage from front to back, passing by the kitchen double sinks, counter, and refrigerator. One half-bath is set beyond the retail area, a full bath is dedicated to the office. Since deliveries would come to backside roll-up doors, we snubbed the cased opening to the passage at 3'-0". Note that the production area is walled off (floor to ceiling), and that there are skylights at 4'x8' – 2 running the spine of each bay.
The client faulted this design on two counts:
the office would have no direct sunlight as it was sequestered behind full walls (the only windows being on the front face);
the retail area was static, uninteresting, dull.
We tried again.
Now, the office is up front, with two NNW-facing windows. We've added a file room in the office "suite," kept the central passage, and built back the retail area on the lower end. The build back forced the 1/2-bath into the retail area. Overall, the retail space retains its design specification of 800 square feet apx.
Note a few other house plan details. There are now two portals between the back work shop areas. The back doors are added. The tiny doors in the back access the electrical panels, included so as to make clear to us not to restrict physical access as further build out and occupation plans are laid.
The client is pleased. (It's worth noting that the client is a blessing to the AG in her own regard as an accomplished draftsman for renowned commercial architects and a teacher of interior design at the university level.)
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We waited on this one long enough to find an even better lease space commercial property – better sized and better priced. The commercial home drawing thus far dovetailed nicely into the next potential leasehold, and may themselves be a subject for subsequent study.
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