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[Jerm]

I've seen people do this kind of thing as a challenge of sorts - I'm curious if hollowing out (nearly) entire levels can be an effective strategy for building a productive fort?

[BahamutZERO]

As long as areas such as sleeping quarters, dinning rooms and offices are enclosed there's no big problems with doing this, aside from aesthetics and possibly organization. If the cave-in code gets improved at some point I think it would make it impossible to hollow out whole levels without using a lot of supports.

[Derakon]

Quarters don't need to be enclosed; they just make it easier to exactly constrain a room to the shape you want. You can make "rooms" out in the open out of beds, chairs, and tables; they'll just all be square. Usually the first bedrooms I make in a fort are scattered throughout my workshops and stockpiles, as I haven't gotten around to making the living area yet. Works just fine.

The biggest problem I could see you having with such a design is figuring out what to do with all that space.

[Metalax]

Stone stockpile?