Parking

The Parking section of the Metrics sidebar shows:

The total parking stalls are shown as a percentage of required stalls beside the Parking section header.

Parking types are shown in number of stalls - to view the type as a percentage, hover on the corresponding section of the bar chart in the Parking section.

Parking in Arcol is parametric, meaning it will automatically create and layout stalls. To create parking simply select a sketch or sketch face, click the Function section in the right sidebar, and select Parking from the list of functions in the menu that appears. As soon as a parking function is assigned you’ll see the generated stalls appear on the sketch.

Note that only one parking type can be assigned to a sketch (you cannot have different parking types assigned to different faces in the same sketch). This means that if you change the parking type assigned to a face in a sketch that ALL faces assigned parking will be updated to that type.

There are various parameters used to generate parking including stall dimensions and drive aisle widths. To edit these parameters select a sketch or sketch face that has a parking type assigned and click on the settings button in the top right of the Parking section in the right sidebar.

Edit mode provides a level of customization that goes far beyond the parking parameters. You can:

To enter edit mode, click the Edit Parking button in the Parking section of the right sidebar while a sketch that is assigned parking is selected.

To add an entrance, click the Entrance button in the toolbar. Note that entrances can only be placed on perimeter edges.

Placed entrances can be dragged along the perimeter.

To delete an entrance, select it in the scene and press Delete on your keyboard.

To edit an entrance width, select it in the scene and edit the Width input in the right sidebar.

Custom stalls are placed via control points that are assigned a number of stalls.

To add a custom stall control point, click the Custom Stall button in the toolbar.

Custom stalls can be placed anywhere inside the parking sketch.

Placed stall points can be dragged to edit the position of the stalls.

To delete a stall point, select it in the scene and press Delete on your keyboard.

To edit the stall type or number of stalls being generated for a stall point, select it in the scene and edit the appropriate parameter in the right sidebar.

Custom drive aisles allow for creation of fire lanes or main aisles that cross the stall grid.

To add a custom drive aisle, click the Drive Aisle button in the toolbar.

Custom drive aisles are created as lines that cross the parking sketch.

Placed drive aisles can have their edge or control points dragged to edit their position.

To delete a drive aisle, select it in the scene and press Delete on your keyboard.

To edit the width or direction of a drive aisle, select it in the scene and edit the appropriate parameter in the right sidebar.

To remove a drive aisle section from the grid, select a drive aisle in the stall grid and press Delete on your keyboard. Deleted sections can be added back by clicking on the dashed line that appears when hovering over the deleted section area.

To create a one way drive aisle, select a drive aisle in the stall grid and set the Direction parameter in the right sidebar. Note that by default drive aisles are 2 way, and one way drive aisles only affect the direction of angled stalls.

To disable stall generation on a perimeter edge, select a perimeter edge and set the Generate stalls parameter to No.

Drag the center control point to change the location of the stall grid origin.

To rotate the stall grid, hover near the control point - click and drag when the rotate cursor appears.

Generative parking has the ability to respond to and reflow around intersecting buildings. Buildings are automatically set to intersect if they are created inside the bounds of a parking sketch or sketch face.

Building intersections can be added or removed manually by opening the Building intersections menu via the button in the right sidebar.

Note that if a parking sketch exists on multiple design options intersecting buildings may cause holes in the parking in other options.

Parking stall types can be added/editing in the Parking stall types tab of the metrics settings menu. You can get there quickly by clicking the Edit Stall Types button in the Parking section of the right sidebar when a sketch that is assigned parking is selected.

To delete a parking stall type, click the settings button at the end of a parking stall type row and click the Delete button in the menu that appears.

By default Arcol has a Parking parking type - unless you want to see the division between something like surface and structure parking, the default is likely all you need.

To create a parking type:

To delete a parking type, click the settings button at the end of a parking type row and click the Delete button in the menu that appears.

Parameter defaults can be set on a parking type so that any sketch assigned that parking type starts with those defaults.

To set parameter defaults click the settings button at the end of a parking type row. Note that updating parameter defaults does NOT affect existing sketches assigned that type.

Arcol determines traffic direction by default based on your chosen site location. Traffic direction only affects angled parking stalls.

You can edit traffic direction in the Project tab of the metrics settings menu.

Required parking can be calculated in 3 ways:

Parking requirement type is set in the Edit building function menu. If Fixed or By Area is selected, an input is displayed below the toggle. If Per Unit is selected, a Stalls per unit input will show in each Edit area type menu for that building function.