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<\/a><\/p>\nHere you are about to enter the parking garage, the slope isn’t too bad and there’s plenty of head room that doesn’t impact the retail space above. \u00a0Fortunately the Avenue outside slopes around the corner of the intersection this building will reside on thus giving us a height advantage.<\/p>\n
To the far right one can see steps allowing people to enter through the secondary apartment entrance, grab their mail and then enter the parking garage, keeping fumes away from the interior through positive air pressure. \u00a0Note that where the entrances are a special bluish granite is chosen for the walls, keeping the interior of the garage lite colors.<\/p>\n
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This version of the parking garage, an earlier version, can accommodate 12 vehicles, one pulling in now! \u00a0The secondary tenant lobby is located off this lower sidewalk and provides access to mail, vehicles, stairs and the elevator.<\/p>\n
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In this scheme, which deviates from the basement floor plan, the handicap ramp is accommodated within an enclosure, to allow for air-conditioning. \u00a0Just beyond this enclosure is the elevator, a 2nd approach for handicap if they enter the second entrance to the building.<\/p>\n Coming up the ramp, one intersects with the public stair that doubles as a fire egress. \u00a0In this lobby, tenants can retrieve their mail from the mail boxes on the far left.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In order to accommodate the entrance car ramp, yet keep parking spaces as close to level as possible, we devised a series of steps, doable because of the extra width of these first few spots as one enters the garage. \u00a0It is quite the tricky parking spot as one pulls in, as one’s right wheel rolls up a hill the left wheel rolls down, both converging on a nice flat surface. \u00a0It is the functional details like this that help make SimpleTwig Architecture stand out.<\/p>\n No that white spot isn’t a parking spot, but instead it is a place for people to back into as they pull out of their parking spot. \u00a0The door on the right is a fire egress, the other is for utility rooms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All the components that eventually made their way into the final version of the parking garage can be seen even in this portion of the basement, where utility have ample room, providing meters for each unit, the egress stair, an important second means of egress, and the backup space as noted in the image above, that while a different shape still indicates its important function, that being to separate vehicles from pedestrians while protecting the walls and structure of the building from vehicle impact.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n