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The minimum slope required is much greater than what would be acceptable in a future living area.
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You'd have to have a design different from today's parkade, but would you be overbuilding it by a significant amount? You'd have to increase the ceiling height, but maybe by what?...two feet? Floors would be sloped, but maybe if they are designed a head of time to be changed at a later date, it can make a conversion easy to do.Re the future conversion ability:
Turning Parking structures into living areas in the future is marketing, nothing more. Turning was intended to work for parking, into living space, is a huge pain in the ass.
Parking spaces have sloped floors, living spaces have flat floors. It’s hard to correct that issue in the future. Also, the structural loading requirements for parking areas are lower than what they need to be for many living areas. So to do this, they have to intentionally overbuild the structure for a future use that’s never going to be used, because it doesn’t make sense to convert. Wasting money is all that is.
So they're already looking at having high ceilings ahead of time. Maybe the idea is to convert to a loft type unit? It would make sense as many lofts used to be warehouses and factories, which are more akin to a parkade.Be interesting to see what the floor to floor is. looks to be about 4.5m...crazy.
Interesting. The floor height in the Guardian parkade is probably close to that height. They have a number of rooms and usages built into the parkade, including a gym, and a maker space.Be interesting to see what the floor to floor is. looks to be about 4.5m...crazy.
It just sounds all really expensive vs building a precast garage that can be demolished (maybe even dissembled for reuse elsewhere) and replaced with housing. Wouldn't toxins leach into the concrete after a decade or two of use? The concrete can be easily encapsulated but, I wouldn't want to live there.
There you go. Page 15. Can be dissembled and used elsewhere.
http://www.sustainableprecast.ca/downloads/Sustainable_Practices_Parking_Structures.pdf