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Site Area Values

How Giraffe calculates different site areas

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Written by Holly Conrad Smith
Updated over 2 months ago

Site areas call properties of the site as defined by your project boundary.

This includes both the basic site area and calculated areas such as the building footprint, roads and hardscape, landscape and open space, and even rooftop landscape!

These values are used in Urban, and site area components in Analytics

Site Total Area

total area within the site boundary

Building Total Area

Sum of area of level 1 of all geometries with building type usages

Landscape Total Area

sum of area of all ground-level geometries with landscape type usages

Paved Total Area

sum of all geometries with Paving type usages

Road Total Area

sum of all geometries with road and path type usages

Rooftop Landscape Total Area

sum area of all landscape with ‘force stack’ on

Site Ex All total area

total site area - landscape total area - paved total area - road total area

Site ex building total area

total site area - building total area

Union all total area

building total area + landscape total area + paved total area + road total area

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