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Building Typologies

Building typologies define the preset parameters and configurator that will be used in your project.

TestFit has 7 typologies and associated configurators, to help generate site and buildings according to the presets in the configurator.

The 7 typologies are:

  • Higher Density
  • Lower Density
  • Parcels
  • Core-based 
  • Garden Homes
  • Mass based Buildings
  • Industrial Buildings
  • Datacenter

Within each typology there are specific building types to choose from.

  • High Density

    • Blocks - Buildings split by max block area
    • Gurban - 4 story urban units with surface parking
    • Infill Podium - 5 story building with fill structured parking with smaller units and parking
    • Infill Unparked - 5 Story Building with no parking on site with smaller unit sizes
    • Podium - 5 story building with fill structured parking 
    • Podium with Wrapped Units - 5 Stories of Building above Structured Parking with Units wrapping the garage
    • Precast Podium - 5 Story Building above Structured Rectangular Parking
    • Structured Parking - Structured Parking Garage
    • Tower - Same as a podium, but 18 stories above structured parking
    • Unparked - 5 Story Building with no parking on site
    • Wrap - 5 story buildings surrounding rectangular structured parking

  • Lower Density

    • Duplex - Two units per building, 10' between buildings
    • Single Family - 1 unit per building. 10' between buildings
    • Townhomes - 3 stories, 4 units per building, 10' between buildings

Parcels

  • Parcel with Fixed Building - Specific footprint size with flexible parcel size
  • Parcel with Max Building - 3 parcel types with a target footprint area
  • Parcels- 3 parcel types without building footprints



  • Core-based

    • Infill Office Site - Non-orthographic building that allows single loaded corridors
    • Spec Office - Orthographic building, fully encapsulated core
    • Tower Office - 25 floors, large vertical circulation

  • Garden

    • Custom Garden Outline - 3 story Garden Massing Outline with surface parking
    • Garden - 3 story prototypical building with surface parking

  • Mass-based

    • Basic  - Massing space with metadata
    • Blank -  An empty site for Urban Planning 
    • Office - Fills site with parking and adds a single box for office with a void space as a plaza
    • Park - Fills sire with a green space/park
    • Pad - Fills site with parking and adds a single box for retail
    • Plaza - Fills site with parking and adds 2 retail boxes and a void space as a plaza
    • Surface Parked - Site filled with surface parking

    • Structured Parking - Area filled with a structured parking garage
    • Park - A tree filled green space
    • Impervious -  A generic paved impervious area



  • Industrial

    • Cross-loaded, Parked - Max 80 bays deep/wide, cross-loaded, no parking
    • Double-Loaded, Parked - 11 bays deep/wide, double-loaded, parked
    • Prototype 3x6 -Prototypical 3x6 bay, single-loaded, parked
    • Single-Loaded, Max Building - Max 80 bays deep/wide, single-loaded, no parking
    • Single-Loaded, Parked - 5 bays deep, single-loaded, parked
    • Urban Infill , No Parking - Single-loaded, no ring road, no parking

  • Datacenter
    • Data Centers - End Bays - Single sided datacenter with end bays 
    • Data Centers - Small - Small site with datacenters
    • Data Centers - Small No Office - Small site with datacenters

  • Hotel
    • Keys Gurban -4stories of Hotel room units with surface parking
    • Keys - Podium Wrapped Units - 5 Stories of hotel rooms above Structured Parking with Units wrapping the garage
    • Keys - Tower - 18 stories of hotel rooms above structured parking