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For a multi-family building with a maximum of four stories, generally planned as a timber-frame structure:

Is it better to use completely homogeneous wooden panel floors or wood-concrete composite floors?

I’m particularly interested in how this is actually implemented and why one might choose one option over the other.

I want to understand how space planning actually work – why certain rooms are placed next to each other, how circulation flows through a home, what dimensions make sense for different spaces, that kind of thing. More about functional logic than aesthetics or decoration.

Anyone know good books, PDFs, YouTube channels or websites that cover exactly this?

I want to understand how floor plans actually work – why certain rooms are placed next to each other, how circulation flows through a home, what dimensions make sense for different spaces, that kind of thing. More about functional logic than aesthetics or decoration.

Anyone know good books, PDFs, YouTube channels or websites that cover exactly this?

Hi r/architecture,

I'm a building drafter apprentice in Switzerland, currently planning a self-directed year-long design project as part of my final qualification. Not looking for anyone to do work for me, just interested in how practitioners in this community think about project scope and typology choices.

My current direction: a mid-scale timber element residential development, multiple apartment blocks, shared outdoor space, taken through feasibility, preliminary design, and a full planning permission package. I work in industrial construction day-to-day, so residential typology is the gap I'm deliberately targeting: apartment layout logic, room dimensioning, furniture clearances, interior organization principles.

Beyond the planning stages I want to include timber construction section drawings at a level of detail worth learning from, AI-assisted visualization, building analysis, and energy efficiency coverage.

Two things I'm genuinely curious about from people who work in this space:

1. Does that scope hold together as a coherent project, or does it spread too thin across a year?
2. For residential layout methodology, where do practitioners actually go for reference, beyond the obvious Neufert?

Appreciate any direct takes.