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Casa Banda Lateral: Two-bedroom layout with a side kitchen-and-bathroom strip

Two-bedroom layout with a side kitchen-and-bathroom strip. A layout study from ResPlan 11900.

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Published view of ResPlan 11900. Geometry, furniture and finishes belong to an approximate reconstruction; this is not a photograph of a home.

Casa Banda Lateral is the editorial name for this two-bedroom layout study based on ResPlan 11900. The public tour offers a way to inspect room connections and boundaries; the name does not identify a built residence or commissioned renovation.

Reading the Casa Banda Lateral layout

Two bedrooms line one side of the plan, opening from the central living area. The kitchen and two bathrooms form a staggered strip along the other side, with a deep recess above the living area between the kitchen and upper bedroom.

The public model reports an approximate overall envelope of 10.01 × 8.089 m, with a modeled height of 3 m. These figures describe the reconstruction, not usable floor area, individual room dimensions or a verified building survey.

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Rotate the Casa Banda Lateral study to inspect the connections described here. Compare the plan shape before checking thresholds, keeping the uncertainties noted in this story visible.

How the room routes connect

Casa Banda Lateral has a central room that distributes directly to two bedroom doors. The staggered kitchen-and-bathroom strip adds different depths along its opposite edge. Check those destinations individually before drawing one continuous circulation line. The deep recess above the living area is outside the room outline and must remain separate from the indoor path between kitchen and upper bedroom.

A furniture decision to compare

A sofa facing the staggered service strip may organize the living room visually, yet its rear or arm can interfere with bedroom access. Compare its orientation against both bedroom doors, not just the kitchen. Keep the upper recess in the frame: cropping it out can make the central room seem more regular and make an unsuitable continuous wall treatment appear plausible.

Review exercise: Casa Banda Lateral

Identify both bedroom doors from a top view and trace their routes from the kitchen side. Compare a sofa facing the staggered strip with one turned along the outer living edge, using equal footprints. Then inspect the upper recess from an oblique view. Note whether any route or proposed furniture has accidentally crossed the exterior gap.

Source and scope of this study

Source: The ResPlan Authors, ResPlan plan 11900. Original ResPlan collection, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Lodnor reconstructed the plan in 3D. The editorial project name and furniture proposals in this article do not attribute new design intentions to the source authors.

The public release credits furniture by Eric Chadwick, ©2021 Wayfair, LLC, CC BY 4.0, modified for presentation. Full furniture and material credits are embedded in the GLB. Furniture sizes and finishes are illustrative; check real dimensions before purchasing.

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