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Rule of thumbRecommended

Wet rooms cluster against a shared plumbing wall

QS-MEP-01

Description

Group kitchen, primary bath, secondary bath, laundry, and powder room against a single shared wet wall (or vertically stacked between floors) so all plumbing runs in one chase.

Why this exists

Plumbing rough-in cost rises sharply with run length. Calibration plans with clustered wet rooms hit budget more easily; scattered wet rooms appeared in the mediocre + poor tiers more often.

Categories

PlumbingAdjacency

Source

Almost an Architectno manifest entry
Floor-plan quality calibration study (v1 (45 plan observations))
Section: lib/quality/calibration/observations.ts
Published 2026-05-16 · last verified 2026-05-16

Solver enforcement

Browsable only — the solver does not currently enforce this directive (no spec-level data to check against). This entry exists so the architect personas can cite it in conversation and the user can read what the rule says.

Related directives

Last reviewed 2026-05-16.