External Utilities: Avoid Drilling Through Walls

An interior with exposed utilities. Electrical wires run in metal conduits along wall corners and baseboards. Air conditioning uses vertical or floor-standing units placed in corners. Ducts run along newly built independent wall surfaces. There are no new openings in the old walls and old ceilings. The utility paths are neat and painted in a color close to the wall surface. Avoid: grooving old walls for concealed pipes, hiding pipes in new ceilings to cover original roof trusses, messy pipe paths crossing historical surface materials, using large concealed ceiling units that require hanging from old structures.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個設備明管化的室內。電線用金屬明管沿著牆角與踢腳走,空調用立式或落地機組放在角落,風管沿著新做的獨立牆面走。老牆與老天花上沒有任何新開的洞。管線的路徑規整並漆成與牆面接近的顏色。避免:在老牆上開槽埋管、把管線藏進新做的天花遮住原有屋架、管線路徑雜亂穿越歷史面材、使用大型吊隱式機組需要吊掛在老結構上。