i tried to make my fictional kpop companyâs head quarters on the sims 4 and this is what happened.
i got this idea from @ephemera-smâ who posted a text post about how it would be interesting to see a floor plan of oc dorms, companies, etc. I thought that was an amazing idea so i decided to make my company on the sims!Â
some notes before we start:Â
the sims only allows 4 floors to be built. obviously a real company has multiple floors and multiple different levels. some of the layouts that i created i see as being a ârepeatâ floor (so like... multiple floors may have the exact same layout)
i am really really really ungifted when it comes to sims4 building. please donât judge me too hard. i donât have cc furniture either. i was working on limited skill and resources. iâm insecure about posting this lmao please be nice.
if you even read through this whole thing.... iâm open to answering any questions about HBH or the building or staff or whatever! questions help me world build and I really need to work on world building.
Alright. Letâs start with the ground floor.Â
Ah, the main lobby. Where visitors and artists alike enter the wondrous building and are greeted by the equally-wondrous, piece of ancient history secretary, Mrs Son Youngja. Right next to the entrance (that you can only get through if you either have an ID or buzz in), are three large display cases. Inside these cases are all the awards that HBH artists have won over the years. Yes, this is a flex on any newcomers that have never been to HBHâs headquarters. No, itâs not subtle in the slightest.
If youâre a trainee, employee, or artist, you have to show Youngja your HBH Entertainment ID before heading to the elevators. Anyone who doesnât have their ID has to wait in the lobby, but they will be asked to leave by security if they loiter for more than ten minutes. You do not want to mess with security.Â
In order to access the rest of the building, you will need your HBH Entertainment ID to open the elevators. Depending on your position at the company, your ID may only get you into specific locations. For example, a corporate intern will only have access to the corporate floor.Â
I always pictured HBH to have a wall full of ivy or plants or maybe even running water behind the front desk. I feel like Hak Bonghwa would want that just to like âbring calmnessâ or something. The sims 4 ivy wall looks fugly but please just envision a cool looking plant wall.
In my Sims 4 world, I called it âThe Big Practice Roomâ. At HBH, there are actually at least 2 of these types of floors, stacked one on top of the other.Â
So there are two floors that look like this! The first one is on floor 1, and they call it Practice Room A. The second one is on floor 2, and they call it Practice Room B.Â
These larger practice rooms are mostly reserved for debuted idols to practice their choreography. Large groups like Triptych need big practice rooms like this so all their members can work together.Â
Trainees rarely use these practice rooms unless they are given permission from their instructors to book them. They are sort of a rite of passage to be able to use the larger practice rooms after you debut.Â
I showed a picture of some random posters next to the âsound systemâ in the second picture because in my head these practice rooms just have a ton of vice/promise/triptych memes printed out and pasted onto the walls near the back of the rooms.
Part of being an HBH artist is coming in at five in the morning to see a new meme of yourself right next to the aux cord. Good morning, Seoul.Â
As you can see, there are two locker rooms up here. Most of the idols just dump their stuff against the wall in the practice room, but sometimes people actually use the lockers that HBH paid for.
Thereâs also three showers and if I could find space for it there would have also been bathroom stalls but.... hehe i made everything too small and was too lazy to rescale. There should be three toilet stalls in each locker room, just use your imagination.Â
In the Sims 4, Trainee Town is one floor. At HBH, itâs more like two. So imagine this floor, but another identical floor on top of it.Â
They call it âTrainee Townâ because these two floors are only used by trainees.Â
Well, not all the time, but you will rarely see a debuted idol in a practice room up here or walking around unless they are hosting a class or dropping by to give tips.
Trainee Town has four practice rooms, all which are significantly smaller than the larger practice rooms that we saw earlier. This is because when they are training, they are broken down into smaller groups and taught by instructors. They also are broken down into smaller performance groups when it comes to busking and showcases, so they never really need a large place to practice.
Actually, the kids will practice anywhere. The space between the two elevators has been used as a practice room multiple times.Â
Right when they get off the elevators, there are bulletin boards that not only have the schedules for their training and showcases, but also sometimes theyâll leave messages to each other on them. Itâs cute.Â
You might have noticed that the locker rooms donât have showers. Thatâs because I ran out of space again. There is supposed to be showers and toilets. I just donât know how to be an architect.Â
Thereâs at least three floors of corporate, but only one has Hak Bonghwaâs office. (The floor above his has an office very similar to his. That office belongs to Heo Seongja.)
They all generally have this same layout. Open seating, no cubical, only a half-wall to separate desks.
HBHâs unofficial-official color is a greyish blue so I tried to keep the color theme going in this specific floor because this is like... where the Business Happens.Â
I couldnât make it but there is a specific floor in HBH that is dedicated to just conference rooms. All the top floors of HBH are for business offices and stuff, but the conference floor is the second-to-top floor. The only floor above that one is the food court, which overlooks the city.
I totally forgot to add the food court, but imagine like... a college dining hall. Itâs like that but with healthy food and tables with benches.Â
Anyways! Hak Bonghwaâs office is in a glass box so he can see all his workers. He doesnât do this to be controlling or whatever, he wants to make it feel like theyâre all in this together.Â
His desk always has photos of his family on it.Â
He has a small conference section of his office with a cat vase. In my head, there was no cat vase. Now that I saw this one from the Sims, there is now canonically a cat vase in Hak Bonghwaâs office.Â
The tea is: a good chunk of HBH workers hate this office layout because thereâs no privacy and you can always see what other people are up to and itâs distracting.Â
The last level I created were The Dungeons.Â
The Dungeons got itâs nickname for two reasons. One, the other half of the basement (which isnât shown because I got too tired to finish it) used to be the old trainee rooms when Vice were training.Â
The second is because of the obsurd amount of time you spend down here when youâre working on a new album.
Most of HBH artists are self-producing so the members will spend a good chunk of their time down in one of the studios to record their comebacks.Â
There are three recording studios. The Green Studio, the Red Studio, and the Blue Studio. They all get their names from the carpets that are laid on the floor.Â
The Blue Room is used the most frequently for production lessons for trainees. Â
Across the hall, you may have noticed two other rooms. One of these rooms âbelongsâ to Cyth from Vice. The other belongs to Rushi and Haeun, two long-time trainees.Â
Cyth gets a room because he produces not only for Vice but he also has had a helping hand in almost every HBH artist comeback since Triptych debuted. Heâs earned his own work space to say the least.
Rushi and Haeun have one for similar reasons. They have both been trainees for nearly six years now. A part of their training was that they got to produce, compose, and write for other HBH idols. They have helped Promise create their whole âDancerâ album as well as a few early Triptych tracks. Even though they are just trainees, they are very valuable members to the HBH gang.Â
To explain the ârandom spaceâ part!Â
Iâve thought it through and Iâve decided that I will probably be putting several âemptyâ rooms down there for a variety of things like rap practice, vocal practice, lyric writing practice, etc. Just more practice space for idols and trainees.Â
I have nothing else to add. If you have any questions or comments, Iâd love to hear them. I may or may not make the dorms?? idk. Weâll see. iâd love to see other peopleâs floor plans! hop on this! letâs make it a trend! Thank you for reading this very long post! Stay healthy please.Â
