Currently, Archicad’s Zone tool provides fixed calculations for areas and volumes using the classic “Measured, Calculated, and Reduced Area” approach. This method feels outdated and too rigid, limiting flexibility for modern workflows.
With sloped roof cut Zones, it would be highly beneficial to introduce flexible, user-defined parameters for calculating zone data based on custom height ranges. Users could specify:
- One or multiple height thresholds (ideally an unlimited number),
- Choose whether to report area, volume, max/min/average height,
- Calculate data for zone portions below, above, or between those chosen height levels.
With this approach, architects could, for example:
- Precisely calculate usable area or volume below 1.50 m, between 1.50 m and 2.40 m, and above 2.40 m,
- Obtain tailored reports without relying on the current, cumbersome “reduced area” system,
- Potentially leverage expressions to further customize these outputs.
Why this is useful:
- Greatly enhances the flexibility and precision of zone reporting.
- Simplifies compliance checks for regulations (e.g., height-based habitable area rules).
- Removes dependency on the legacy measured/calculated/reduced area method.
- Makes zone data extraction modern, dynamic, and fully customizable.
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