Adaptive Unit Layout in Skema

Skema is a fast-forward button for your design process, automating repetitive tasks so you can get to what matters. See how Skema uses a firm’s design catalog to automate a floor layout plan in seconds in this episode of Ask Alex.

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Alex here and a question I've been asked

is what's a quick way I can create a

layout in schema or is there an Adaptive

automated way to do it and there is one

tool you can use and that is the

Adaptive unit layout tool so when I'm in

my floor plan layout what I can do is

Select my adaptive unit layout tool I

can either create an offset or just draw

the path for my layout on the floor and

what this path represents is centralized

circulation so what I can do is then

select my layout move it into my floor

and then I can make some quick edits to

it for example I don't want all these

units right here to be generated so I

can change my unit mix so if I'm ever

trying to meet certain program

requirements or trying to meet certain

metrics I can easily do that just by

going in and churning off and changing

some of my metrics and if I just hit

enter then I have my layout readapted to

those new metrics and then I have some

other elements that I can adaptively

change as well these inner and outer

offsets represent these Corner

placeholder massing’s for you to allocate

space for when you want to bring in

units to those Corners later I can

change my circulation width and I can

also change the depth of these Corner

regions and you'll see as I change the

depth the layout is adaptively changing

to those edits so whenever I'm done with

these adaptive layouts all I need to do

is just hit the bake button and now I

can individually select each unit