May 8, 2019

Working With Fill-Type Garages

Posted by Clifton Harness

What is a Fill-Type Garage?

Simply put? Fill a site with parking in an irregular fashion. TestFit handles three major scenarios with fill-type parking: The Podium Fill; The Donut; and The Donut + Wrap. Sounds pretty appetizing, right?

The Podium Fill

Fill the site with parking, put building on top of it. To achieve this, simply select “podium fill” on the preset panel.

Podium-Fill-1
Podium Fill 5 over 2

The Texas Donut

Fill the entire site with parking, but line the garage with housing units. Affectionately called the “Texas Donut”. In TestFit simply select “donut” on the presets panel.

Donut-Fill
Donut-Fill 3D

The Filled Donut + Wrap

Sometimes a site has a weird shape, and the garage is used to regularize that shape. This is less easy to achieve in TestFit, but still achievable.

Step One: Select donut from the preset panel

Step Two: Slide a setback to shrink the garage footprint

Step Three: Set building wrap levels to 5

Step Four: “Explode” the model to manual mode

Step Five: Reset the setbacks

Step Six: Manually add building mass

Step Seven: Solve by toggling out of manual mode

Donut Fill

Here is a swift comparison, with two “Donut Fill + Wrap” options:

3D Fill Options
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