Difficult room layout

Hi all. My hair has turned grey from trying to do a reasonable design from this. I am going to have 1 control room and 1 tracking room in this shared, 4 room “complex”. The tracking room has to have a room within a room design (noisy neighbor) and floating floor (noisy workshop below). I have attached a Sketchup drawing. Now my rooms are the two most right, and the second room from the right is to be the control room, the first from the right the tracking room. There has to be a window between the tracking and CR. The little room in the tracking room area is a toilet which can't be moved. From the toilet, through the tracking room runs a vent pipe along the right most wall to the outer wall about two meters up (sorry - couldn't draw it properly in Sketup). The wall between the CR and tracking room is concrete and does offer quite a bit of isolation. Unfortunately, that wall does not go all the way through the room but stops about 2 meters from the back wall. The rest (where the door is - brown colour) I made of drywall. That wall CAN probably (with permission from the land lord) be knocked down if necessary. Can you help me a good, space and (as always) cost saving design. Budget is only 2 – 3000 USD.

Pls let med know if theres any important information I've left out :wink:

Lasso wrote:

tracking room has to have a room within a room design (noisy neighbor) and floating floor (noisy workshop below).

How much dead weight will the existing floor safely handle? Rooms within rooms, especially with floating floors, need to be extraordinarily heavy, and often their weight makes them impossible to do without risking a catastrophic collapse. Making the floating floor or floating room lightweight could actually make the room perform worse in terms of isolation. Please provide extensive details of the existing construction. You may need a structural engineer to investigate and report back with the weight limits under which you will need to build. Is this space in your possession already, or are you still just researching before signing a lease? --Keith :mrgreen:

Hi Sharward - and thanks for your reply. I'm renting the rooms allready and have been for 4 years. My business has just changed so much lately so I have to rebuild. More clients that want more fancy rooms :D To floors should be able to handle to load - but ofcourse it's something that needs checking. Actually, I think the floors are concrete. Theres a hole right down to the room below where there used to be a pipe. I Guess the floor is about a foot thick.