The ground floor will have the front desk for management and concierge services with nearby mailboxes visible from the front desk.
Behind the management office I would like to place on-site daycare. There may also be room for other businesses. I don't know how much space this would take.
It would be cool if it were POSSIBLE to take a kid to the daycare center without leaving the building but I am failing to imagine how that might work. Maybe a street-side door AND a door from the parking garage?
Daycare will give residents priority for new slots opening up but will serve the general public.
At the bottom of the other tower will be secured bicycle parking. Residents get priority but like with the garage, any excess unused spaces may be rented out to the general public.
Ideally the building should be near a public transit center or transit stop. If it is in a downtown area, the parking garage serves as essential parking to make a densely built downtown area work as both car-friendly and car-independent as well as promoting public transit use by people who can store their bike downtown, take transit to a nearby stop and then use their bike to run errands.
Flexibility may be provided by designating SOME bicycle spots and car parking spots as short-term (hour, day) rental only and then if new residents need spaces and all long-term rental spots are taken, you re-assign short-term rentals to residents and then when someone cancels a long-term rental, you add back more short-term rentals.
I have zero numbers on square footage for what it takes to park x number of cars or bikes. If the square footage it takes to park bikes is above the square footage of the footprint of one tower, maybe more bike parking goes in the other tower. Or maybe if bike parking is always empty, you repurpose that and add two extra parking spaces on the ground floor or something.
Because I am not an architect or engineer and have no construction experience, the rough drawings and my imagined functions may fail to match up exactly. Professionals will need to make reasonable adjustments accordingly.
Alternately, check zoning requirements and local data and build less than 2 parking spaces and 2 bicycle spaces per unit. Maybe build one or 1.5 per unit and assume some residents will live alone and some will live entirely without cars or bikes to make the square footage etc pencil out.
The entire point is to provide flexibility to choose to have a vehicle or not have one and this means there will always be some challenges in trying to figure out exactly how many spaces you need per unit and then renting out excess as short-term rentals helps make that work financially and helps keep it flexible for residents.
Behind the management office I would like to place on-site daycare. There may also be room for other businesses. I don't know how much space this would take.
It would be cool if it were POSSIBLE to take a kid to the daycare center without leaving the building but I am failing to imagine how that might work. Maybe a street-side door AND a door from the parking garage?
Daycare will give residents priority for new slots opening up but will serve the general public.
At the bottom of the other tower will be secured bicycle parking. Residents get priority but like with the garage, any excess unused spaces may be rented out to the general public.
Ideally the building should be near a public transit center or transit stop. If it is in a downtown area, the parking garage serves as essential parking to make a densely built downtown area work as both car-friendly and car-independent as well as promoting public transit use by people who can store their bike downtown, take transit to a nearby stop and then use their bike to run errands.
Flexibility may be provided by designating SOME bicycle spots and car parking spots as short-term (hour, day) rental only and then if new residents need spaces and all long-term rental spots are taken, you re-assign short-term rentals to residents and then when someone cancels a long-term rental, you add back more short-term rentals.
I have zero numbers on square footage for what it takes to park x number of cars or bikes. If the square footage it takes to park bikes is above the square footage of the footprint of one tower, maybe more bike parking goes in the other tower. Or maybe if bike parking is always empty, you repurpose that and add two extra parking spaces on the ground floor or something.
Because I am not an architect or engineer and have no construction experience, the rough drawings and my imagined functions may fail to match up exactly. Professionals will need to make reasonable adjustments accordingly.
Alternately, check zoning requirements and local data and build less than 2 parking spaces and 2 bicycle spaces per unit. Maybe build one or 1.5 per unit and assume some residents will live alone and some will live entirely without cars or bikes to make the square footage etc pencil out.
The entire point is to provide flexibility to choose to have a vehicle or not have one and this means there will always be some challenges in trying to figure out exactly how many spaces you need per unit and then renting out excess as short-term rentals helps make that work financially and helps keep it flexible for residents.