I am working on a 4-story mixed use project with retail on the first floor and apartment units above. For the residences, we have 95.5% views, but I was wondering how to treat the retail spaces. Our project does not include designing the retail spaces. For our project, the first floor is a large open space, and future tenant fit-outs will be handled in later projects. The tenants haven't even been contracted yet.
Even though we don't know what the final fit-out will be like, we are confident that the 90% views will be met. The north exterior wall is 76% 10-foot-high storefront glazing (77' out of 101' total linear feet), while the south wall is 71% storefront (59' out of 83' total linear feet). With so much glass, it is likely that views will be accessible from most - if not all - of the regularly occupied spaces, but there's really no way to tell.
How do we treat this type of future fit-out in documenting this credit? Do we leave out the retail floor from our calculations all together? Do we include the large open space? Any suggestions? Thank you.
David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
LEEDuser Expert
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June 2, 2010 - 12:34 pm
In a mixed use building like yours, it's quite common to have ground floor retail space that's only built as core and shell at the time of certification. You'll want to include these areas in both the daylight and views calcs - with storefront glazing, there's often alot of daylight.
For drawings & calcs, one approach would be showing the likely demising walls between tenants, and then draw a average back-of-house storage/ work room. With that as your typical space plan, you can draw your floor/ glazing area take-offs and lines of sight.