4-plex

For pricing and design development only

Four studios, two on each side of a central owner spine that holds the water heaters and the water lines.

Concept render of a one-story building with green doors and white windows, a bank of five electric meters beside the door on the end wall, an outdoor heat pump unit at each corner of that wall, and a walk along the front. — Concept render: the 4-plex, with two studio entries on this side and the owner door on the end wall.

Concept render of the other long side of the building, with two more entries, and the owner door, meters and two outdoor heat pump units on the end wall. — Concept render: the 4-plex from the other side, with the other two studio entries.

Colors, the lot and the planting are picked for these pictures. Our drawings do not set them.

Specs in our current drawings

Four studio apartments in one story, around a central strip for building equipment. That strip is not a room for tenants.

Building footprint 44 ft by 30 ft, outside the walls: 1,320 square feet in all
About 252 square feet per studio, inside the walls
Partitions rated to resist fire for one hour, between homes and along the central strip
One 50-gallon electric water heater for each studio, on that studio’s own meter
Gutters and downspouts included

Status. Drawings are for pricing and design development only. They are not for permit or construction. A licensed architect or engineer must complete and seal them.

The owner spine, kept warm

The spine runs the length of the building between the studios, with an owner door at each end. It is not a room for tenants.

Four 50 gallon electric water heaters stand along one wall, one for each studio on that studio’s own meter, in two pairs with a floor drain between each pair for their drain pans.

Each studio has its own cold and hot water manifolds with shutoffs, fed only by its own heater. The one washer hookup is cold water only.

A mini-split heat pump on the house meter heats the spine, with a 1,000 watt baseboard heater set at 45 degrees as a backup. Our drawings tell the owner to keep the spine heated, because the water service comes up inside it.

Walk through it in 360

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Concept render, not a photograph: outside the 4-plex, by the entry walk. The one-story 4-plex from its entry walk, with studio doors along the side and parking nearby.

The studio views are of a studio in a 4-plex in the village concept.

The plumbing plan shows where each pipe runs, not how high. The lines over the hall are drawn at ceiling height for the picture; the lines to each studio run below the floor slab.

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Every spot as a flat picture

Here is each panorama laid out as one wide picture, for anyone who cannot use the viewer.

The one-story 4-plex from its entry walk, with studio doors along the side and parking nearby. — Concept render, not a photograph: outside the 4-plex, by the entry walk.

The end wall of the 4-plex with the owner door to the spine, a bank of five electric meters and an outdoor heat pump unit at each corner. — Concept render, not a photograph: the 4-plex owner door on the end wall.

A loveseat and a round table for two sit in the middle of the room, with the TV on the front wall and the kitchen along the back wall. The bed is in the far corner, and the indoor unit of the heat pump hangs high on the end wall. — Concept render, not a photograph: the entry and living area, seen from just inside the front door.

White shaker cabinets and a stainless sink, with the range and refrigerator beside them and a microwave over the range. A fruit bowl, a mug, a cutting board and a pot of herbs sit on the counter, with plates and a bowl beside the sink. — Concept render, not a photograph: the kitchen along the back wall.

The front window looks out on a lawn and other concept homes. Beside it is the closet door, and the indoor unit of the heat pump hangs high on the end wall above a framed print, with the bed in the corner. — Concept render, not a photograph: the corner by the front window, near the closet and the bed.

A tub with a tiled surround and a shower curtain. A wall-hung sink sits under a mirror cabinet beside the toilet. — Concept render, not a photograph: the bath, with the tub across the back.

Four 50 gallon water heaters in drain pans, one for each studio, in two pairs with a floor drain between each pair, red and blue water lines on the walls, and a mini-split heat pump high on the wall at the far end. — Concept render, not a photograph: the middle of the 4-plex owner spine.

The washer hookup, cold water only, in a short chase on the spine wall between the two pairs of water heaters, with the spine’s mini-split heat pump and its backup baseboard heater toward the east end. — Concept render, not a photograph: the 4-plex owner spine beside the washer hookup.

The owner door, the house panel on the end wall and the water service coming up through the floor. — Concept render, not a photograph: the west end of the 4-plex owner spine, by the owner door.