Or perhaps all the (actual) Architects have really left the building and 'made by architects for architects is now only just an empty slogan? (that's a rhetorical question.

I'm having a hard time believing that no on at Graphisoft has ever encountered or envisioned such a scenario or realized it needs a better solution than what we have now. I realize some would say you just split the project per tower and common podium and then hotlink each separate tower from it's own file with it's own level settings to the main file with the common podium and parkade.īut as anyone who's had to go this route will tell you, this 'solution' or workaround is rife with issues and problems of its own along with limitations that are just not that ideal to have to deal with. For instance, when the second floor is overhanging the first floor. D Change where building height is measured from: Submission 39: Any second unit must be single storey with a maximum height above the floor level at 4m. Say you have a multi-tower project with 2, 3 or more towers that share a podium and parking levels, but which then adopt different storey height levels as they become separate towers (with some towers having office or hotel program with taller floor-to-floor height and others having residential or even a mix of both). Determining the ratio of floor space to lot area. This is one of those daily problems we deal with in projects - particularly in mid- to large multi-building projects that take on different forms and floor heights and may not necessarily be phased separately (in which case I suppose in ArchiCAD you would go the 'Hotlink' route) - and one that you'd think Graphisoft would have gotten around dealing with by now - especially given their heavy emphasis on chasing 'big' customers and architect offices, which deal with these sizes and scale of projects.Įspecially also given how much people have requested or wished for a better solution to it over the years (decades?)

Height of two stories