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[Tael]

So, I've bee working fairly steadily on making a more interesting fortress -- Less of the same old things I've been using all the time. I used to use a circular fortress-tower, but got bored of designating the rooms that I never actually did anything interesting with.
Now I'm trying to set up a more interesting fort, but I'm not quite sure how or where to put the workshops.

Spoiler: Current design plans -- Zoomed out (click to show/hide)

So, for actual size of various room setups: the smaller spirals are 4x3+1 with hallways out that are 1 wide. The larger spirally set up rooms are 8x6+2x2 squares, with a 2 wide hallway out.
I plan on using the spirally set up rooms for housing and the large spirals for Noble housing. In the SMALL spiraled rooms there is a 2 wide wall for ALL squares -- Though I might go in and swap back down to single wide, as I'm not sure the 2-wide walls will look good smoothed.
But that is a different issue.

What I'm asking for is for people to post workshop layouts (Preferably that fit within ~24x24 squares), that are not the standard 3x3 room+door//cornerdoor complexes, NOR 5x5 minus corners setups. What I'm looking for is something which will look nice -- better than the cut-paste workshops.

Post some inspiring workshop designs if you have them!

[Argonnek]

Here's an idea, You could find three of your favorite DF-supported colors and make a wave pattern with them
Or you could build with only red stones and have a blood mosaic to please Armok.
Also, are those big rooms intended to look like swastikas?

[sonerohi]

Good to see someone still using Dwarf Heaven.

[Tael]

More or less Dwarf Heaven. Its 5x5 and set with the magma/bottomless pit in the top left rather than in the middle-ish, with partial chasm.

And as for looking like swastikas, that is unintentional but results from the design idea for that housing -- Four centrally linked rooms for dwarves. They'll end up being two stories tall, smoothed, and in the case of the larger ones, paved with either green or red stones, their walls being natural as much as possible. The center is going to be a court-yard type area. Military will be stationed inside of the pillars in front -- which will end up being several z-levels.
But again this is a request for suggestions on how to set up workshops in the back half of my fortress.

[Dante`]

Build a circle of kickass magma forges in the center of each of the squares, Then surrounded by them place various other workshops also in a circle. Basically clear the whole part of that map.

[G-Flex]

Your design honestly looks incredibly inefficient for the sake of pretty shapes. Cut down on travel distance and make better use of the third dimension. That's my advice, anyway.

[shadowclasper]

Also, are those big rooms intended to look like swastikas?

Even if they are, it ain't the Nazi ones. He took the original kind that are a Sihk and Indian holy symbol.

As for my advice... hmmmm... problem is I don't remember how each workshop looks. You'll have a better time of it when the custom workshops come out next patch.

[UndergroundTree]

I put a hanging floor over a volcano for all my magma forges and workshops then walled off the crater, remember to wall off around the hanging floor, and floored Z-level +1. The stairs go through the "roof" and single holes in the floor let them be active.  Spirits of fire and fire imps dance around outside. Trapped by the walls, and unable to get into the forges.