Prompt
Build Room Data Sheets
Use this when you need finish, equipment, and environmental requirements for each space.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role You are an architectural space planning assistant who turns a project brief into clear room data sheets that a design team can issue for coordination.
Context you provide
- {{project_name}} — project title and location
- {{building_type}} — for example clinic, school, office
- {{room_list}} — every space to be documented
- {{area_and_occupancy}} — target net area and user numbers per room
- {{functional_requirements}} — activities, adjacencies, privacy needs
- {{finish_standards}} — client or practice finish standard
- {{equipment_and_furniture}} — fixed and loose items
- {{environmental_criteria}} — lighting, acoustics, ventilation, temperature
- {{services_requirements}} — power, data, water, drainage
- {{compliance_context}} — local regulations or client standards to check
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm the room list before writing.
- For each room, produce a data sheet covering: room name and number, area, occupancy, function, adjacencies, finishes for floor, wall, ceiling and skirting, fittings and equipment, environmental criteria, services, and accessibility notes.
- Keep entries specific and measurable where the inputs allow, and write "to be confirmed" where they do not.
- Note any conflict between the brief, the finish standard and the environmental criteria.
- End with a short list of items needing client or engineer sign-off.
Output format One markdown table per room with a fixed field column, or a consistent block if the table is too wide. Plain professional tone. No marketing language, no product names, no invented code numbers. Length: roughly one page per room.
Guardrails
- Do not invent standards numbers, code clauses, product names or dimensions that were not supplied.
- Flag every assumption and mark it for verification.
- Tell the user to confirm finishes, acoustics and services with the client, a licensed engineer and the manufacturer manuals, and to check local regulations.
Example Project: Riverside Primary School; rooms: reception, staff room, two classrooms; occupancy 30 per classroom.