MULTI-UNIT DWELLING SYSTEM AND BUILDING
First Claim
1. A multi-unit dwelling building having a predetermined floor plan arrangement, the building comprising a plurality of multi-room dwelling units, the unit generally being a series of units aligned in adjacency in a row along an external passageway, and including an access door to each unit from the passageway, a predetermined number of units having a predetermined occupied area by each unit, and wherein each unit includes a usable area defined by an area including a bed, a chair, a television area, and a writing surface, and an area defined as non-usable, such non-usable area including a toilet and a shower stall, and wherein the usable area relative to the overall occupied area is at least greater than about 75 percent of the overall occupied area.
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Abstract
A multi-unit building design has a system of contiguous dwelling units arranged to occupy a single story at a high density. Each unit includes a usable area defined by an area including a bed, a chair, a television area, and a writing surface. There is a non-usable area that includes a toilet and a shower stall. The usable area relative to the overall occupied area is at least greater than about 75 percent, and as high as about 85 percent of the overall occupied area.
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- 1. A multi-unit dwelling building having a predetermined floor plan arrangement, the building comprising a plurality of multi-room dwelling units, the unit generally being a series of units aligned in adjacency in a row along an external passageway, and including an access door to each unit from the passageway, a predetermined number of units having a predetermined occupied area by each unit, and wherein each unit includes a usable area defined by an area including a bed, a chair, a television area, and a writing surface, and an area defined as non-usable, such non-usable area including a toilet and a shower stall, and wherein the usable area relative to the overall occupied area is at least greater than about 75 percent of the overall occupied area.
- 4. A multi-unit dwelling building having a predetermined floor plan arrangement, the building comprising a plurality of multi-room dwelling units, each unit generally being arranged to occupy a generally rectangular area, selectively with one wall being angulated, and wherein a series of units are aligned in adjacency in a row along an external passageway, and including an access door to each unit from the external passageway, a predetermined number of units having a predetermined occupied area by each unit, and wherein each unit includes a usable area defined by an area including a bed, a chair, a television area, and a writing surface, and an area defined as non-usable, such non-usable area including a toilet and a shower stall, and wherein the usable area includes a washing basin, and wherein the shower stall is essentially square in plan, and wherein the occupied area excludes an internal passageway to the occupied area.
- 18. A multi-unit dwelling building having a predetermined floor plan arrangement, the building comprising a plurality of multi-room dwelling units, a series of units being aligned in adjacency in a row along an external passageway, and including an access door to each unit from the external passageway, a predetermined number of units having a predetermined occupied area by each unit, and wherein each unit includes a usable area defined by an area including a bed, a chair, a television area, and a writing surface, and an area defined as non-usable, such non-usable area including a toilet and a shower stall, wherein the usable area includes a washing basin, and wherein the shower stall is essentially square in plan, and wherein the occupied area excludes an internal passageway to the occupied area, and wherein the washing basin is located between the non-usable and the access door opening into the unit from the external passageway, a sliding door for selectively separating the usable area from the non-usable area, a bay window for the usable area, and provision for central HVAC to the units, wherein the unit does not contain a local HVAC system for each unit, and each unit includes ports for ducting for circulating the HVAC between each unit and a central HVAC processing system.
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