Architectural View 

Use

The architectural view allows you to create an optional architectural structure that augments the master data of the usage view. This lets you map your real estate structures at all hierarchical levels, regardless of company code. 

Use of the architectural view is optional. It is recommended in the following cases:

·        You wish to enter detailed information on the architectural structure of your real estate in the system, especially if you have detailed measurements, such as on rooms or floors in a building, and you wish to access this data in the usage view

·        You want to move management of plant maintenance from the usage view to the architectural view (this provides more flexibility in the usage view).

·        You wish to define information on a level below the rental object (such as rooms).

·        You want to link to graphical systems.

 

You do not need the architectural view for purely rental-related processes, including creation of spaces for lease-out and lease-in. You can even handle lease-out of rental spaces belonging to a pooled space without creating an architectural view.

 

Features

Architectural View in the Real Estate Process

An architectural structure represents the functions, parts and characteristics of a superior object (such as locality, architectural building or property) with one or more of its subordinate objects (such as a floor or room) in a hierarchical form. A structure consists of several architectural objects and levels that are linked with each other.

The architectural view represents the natural structure, or architectural status, of a real estate object, taking account of all the chronological changes relevant to its usage. In the architectural view, you can save data generated by various architectural planning processes and planning systems related to Flexible Real Estate Management.

It is possible to define architectural information on rooms or spaces or fixed units without creating a corresponding rental object for each room or space.

Parts of buildings (such as wings) are no longer defined as “subbuildings”, as in Classic RE. If you need them as account assignment objects in their own right, you can use pooled spaces in the usage view. Otherwise they are shown as parts of buildings in the architectural view.

Architectural objects are not account assignment objects!

 

Integration

Usage View

In the usage view, you can link each master data object, down to the level of the rental object types pooled space and rental unit, with an architectural object. It is not yet possible to link a rental space with an architectural space or an architectural room.

It is not necessary to create an architectural structure to manage your real estate objects.