Second Revision Design Critiques and Suggestion

This being my first post I ought to give some information about my design, I had designed a studio space based on a slab that had yet to be poured, but before I had it poured I stumbled across this amazing resource. I had been wasting considerable space in comparisson to the design after I embeded the SAE Corner Control design into my pre existing space. As for the picture, yea, I did it in good 'ole Microsoft Paint so there is actually a scale, but it is not quite accurate. If any of you are intrigued and can figure out the wall measurements somehow I would be grateful, as I am going at this blind right now. I do know the desired length of one wall and I include it in the layout as well as the width of the hall surrounding the studio. Well thanks for any criticism, congratulations, or hints, I would appreciate it greatly. And by the by, anything blue is glass, but I'm sure you all could have guessed that.

This is the updated floor plan, yes it too was done in Paint, so I'm sorry for the scale issues.

What's up with the moat-like ring of hallway around the building? Planning on an attack from a viking hoard? You could gain a lot of space if you're restructure this I think. But i'm not an expert. That's just an amatuer opinion.

Thanks for the reply, I assumed that your question would be the first to come up. Since I am building the studio on a empty slab all of the rooms are going to be the size I wanted, so I decided to build the hall to facilitate easy access to the main room (without crossing the control space), an easy place to store extra cases for those busy touring rockers and of course hall hockey. Really I just like the ability to get to the other side of the studio while staying dry on rainy days :-)

Offhand, this looks like about 45'x60' -- darn big. Because they are around the edge, those hallways are taking up almost 2000 square feet, if I'm calculating correctly. I understand the desire to have paths and loadin/loadout and hall hockey -- but that's a lot of square feet/money for that kind of space. I strongly suspect you can use it better. On the other hand, a hall like this, with solid walls on both sides gives great sound isolation. People don't usually spend so much space on that, but I believe it mitigates the multiple leaf problem allowing two sets of walls. (am i wrong?) I also wonder about the two amp iso booths. If you made those a bit bigger, you could use them for overdub vocals too - a lot more flexibility. A 6'x7' room can do fine with a single vocalist or a guitar cab - flexibility is king. Having a "work area" is very cool. You'll also want to plan more storage. Microphones, mic stands, cables, headphones, instrument stands, etc. take up a ton of room. Is there another area where folks that aren't actively recording can relax? It can really help a session flow better if they don't have to be in the recording area or the control room. Its a "cheaper" area, because you don't have to do the same kind of sound treatment, but its an important addition. Also, for a facility like this, you may want to add a closet next to the control room for your computers and other noisy equipment. -lee-

If you're going to keep the hallways, I'd shift the "studio" section into the upper right hand corner and make your "studio" bigger, and still keep a perimeter 5' wide around the bottom and left side.