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equally to achieving this sense of scale. Housing should provide a homelike environment with an architectural scale that imparts a clear sense of relative comfort, ease, and satisfaction.
4.23.6 Building Mass. Building mass is defined as the overall bulk or total volume of space a building occupies. Large buildings such as bachelor housing, aircraft hangars, and maintenance facilities often have a greater relative mass than other buildings on a base. Modulating the form and facade of these buildings with setbacks, repetitive details, and less dominant colors softens their physical appearance and develops a blending of facilities in terms of their form, proportion, and perceived size. The size, shape, proportion, repetition, and placement of design features such as fenestration, roofs, and columns are elements that combine to project the architectural character of a building. Building form should reduce the impression of size and institutional regularity and emphasize
more individual interior and exterior scale.
4.24 Life Safety. Provisions for life safety should conform to requirements in NFPA 101. Occupancy of bachelor housing is classified by MIL-HDBK-1008C, Fire Protection for Facilities Engineering, Design, and Construction, as personnel housing, by NFPA 101 as interior corridor or dormitory for recruits, and as apartments for all others. Use the more stringent requirement where regulations conflict.
4.25 Fire Protection Sprinkler System. Provide sprinkler systems in bachelor housing. For both new construction and rehabilitation projects, install in accordance with NFPA 13R. Fire protection systems should conform to MIL-HDBK-1008C and to NFPA fire codes, particularly NFPA 101. Bachelor housing are classified by NFPA as new interior corridor and bachelor housing occupancy or as existing interior corridor and bachelor housing occupancy (in the case of minor renovation projects). Fire and life safety safeguards should comply with requirements of this occupancy. Mid rise/high rise bachelor housing should be protected throughout by an approved, supervised automatic sprinkler system installed in accordance with requirements specified in NFPA 101, NFPA 13R, and other fire codes referenced therein.
4.26 Fire Alarm Systems. Install fire alarms systems compatible with base systems and connected to the base system.
4.27 Smoke Detectors. Provide each bedroom and each living room with a smoke detector powered from the building electrical
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