A single-threaded parking structure requires a minimum width of 122 feet and length of 155 feet to allow for two-way traffic flow with 90-degree parking and a five-foot vertical rise over two bays. The structure has sloping floors on both sides, but larger sites allow one sloped bay and one level floor. The number of levels should be limited to six maximum for convenience due to the number of turns required to ascend. A two-bay single-threaded design can accommodate approximately 750 parking spaces.
A single-threaded parking structure requires a minimum width of 122 feet and length of 155 feet to allow for two-way traffic flow with 90-degree parking and a five-foot vertical rise over two bays. The structure has sloping floors on both sides, but larger sites allow one sloped bay and one level floor. The number of levels should be limited to six maximum for convenience due to the number of turns required to ascend. A two-bay single-threaded design can accommodate approximately 750 parking spaces.
A single-threaded parking structure requires a minimum width of 122 feet and length of 155 feet to allow for two-way traffic flow with 90-degree parking and a five-foot vertical rise over two bays. The structure has sloping floors on both sides, but larger sites allow one sloped bay and one level floor. The number of levels should be limited to six maximum for convenience due to the number of turns required to ascend. A two-bay single-threaded design can accommodate approximately 750 parking spaces.
In order to develop a reasonably efficient free-standing parking structure, the
minimum dimensions needed are about 122 feet in width by 155 feet in length. A width of 122 feet allows for a two-bay facility with two-way traffic flow and 90-degree parking. A facility with two-way traffic and a five-foot rise along each bay requires approximately 155 feet in length for a minimum floor-to-floor height of about ten feet. That is, one 360-degree turn within the facility equates to a vertical rise of ten feet. A structure in this configuration has sloping floors along both façade sides. However, sloping floors can make façade treatments challenging. On larger sites that allow a structure length of about 255 feet, one bay can be sloped rising 10 feet with opposite façade having a “level” floor.
Because of the number of 360º turns needed to ascend in a single threaded
structure, the number of levels (floors) should preferably be limited to a maximum of six, otherwise the number of turns required and the number of spaces passed becomes inconvenient. A structure with a two-bay single thread design has a capacity for a maximum of approximately 750 spaces. The isometric diagram to the right represents a two-bay single-threaded helix.