Parking layouts and solar parks in a site polygon

[giza]

Hi all,

We've built two parametric objects for early site studies and I'm sharing them free with the community.

archiParkingLayout: draw your site as a polygon (drag the corners) and it fills it with surface parking:

• 90°, 75°, 60°, 45°, 30° or parallel stalls, with aisle widths and one-way/two-way traffic following the angle
• best fit: rows turn and shift to fit the most stalls, and refit whenever you move a corner
• a ring road or end lanes so every aisle connects, entrances, and rounded islands at the row ends for turning
• optional trees (a planted bay every N stalls, trees on the islands), cars in plan and 3D
• stall count, m² per stall and stalls per hectare in the info block

archiSolarPark: place it on a plot and it lays out a ground-mounted solar park:

• fixed-tilt rows, single-axis trackers or east-west tables, turned to the sun using your project's location
• rows spaced so they don't shade each other, plus fence, roads, inverter stations, substation and battery
• module count, MWp and a rough yearly energy estimate in the info block

Both are free downloads, as one library file or as single objects: https://www.architools.net/libraries

Help pages with worked examples:

• https://www.architools.net/libraries/archiparkinglayout
• https://www.architools.net/libraries/archisolarpark

They're meant for feasibility and massing, not final design: check stall sizes and aisle widths against your local standards. Feedback and bug reports are very welcome. Tell me what's missing for your projects.

Operating system used: Windows

[Kalib Stewart]

Hey giza, we've been testing the parking object and it's been phenomenal. Is there anyway to create holes in it? We often have to work around basements with multiple cores coming down and this would be even better if we could get it to calculate around these cutouts.

Thank you.

[giza]

Hi Kalib,

I updated the object you can download latest version, new options to add cores and voids, you can check the help page for more details: https://www.architools.net/libraries/archiparkinglayout

[Kalib Stewart]

Awesome, thank you. We'll continue testing it and I'll get you some feedback as we come across it.