Design Problem:  There are not enough parking spots at ACF to accommodate all students who drive or want to drive to school.

Client:  Your design firm has been hired by ACF PTSO to propose solutions to the problem.  The first step in the process is to get the client some graphical models to communicate your design ideas. 

Research to be conducted:

1. How many parking spots are available on campus?  379 total with 16 handicap spots.
1. Behind Media Center / 400
1. 50 
2. 4 Handicap 
2. Senior Lot
1. 128 
2. 8 Handicap spots 
3. Junior Lot (junior spots are different from teacher spots) 
1.  102 total
1. teacher
2.  student spots 
2. How many cars can park on Falcon Dr.
• Falcon Dr. from Muv (or whatever it's called!) to the loop (including the loop)
•  47 on Falcon Drive 
•  and 2 handicap in the loop 
• Falcon Drive from Beltline to the loop including the baseball parking lot thingy 
•  10 in baseball lot 
• 2 handicap 
•  18 on the street 
3. How many student spots are necessary to accommodate everyone?   Explain how you arrived at this number (best educated guess).  Think of this as your goal for this assignment.  
4. Dimensions of (use Google Earth):
1. The size of a parking spot on campus 
2. The Senior lot
3. The junior / teacher lot
4. Row behind the Media Center to the Cafeteria
5. Row behind the 400 to the theater
6. Near the tennis courts
7. The Access Road
8. The baseball lot
9. From Beltline to baseball lot
10. Baseball lot to the loop
11. Loop curb
12. Loop up the hill to Muv 

Design Specifications:

• Cannot block entrances
• Cannot block exits
• Cannot block fire lanes.
• Spots must allow for cars/trucks/SUV's of varying sizes. 
• Cannot double park/block people in
• Must provide sufficient  room for teenage drivers to back out/park.
• ALL TEACHERS and SUPPORT STAFF MUST HAVE PARKING SPOTS (100)
• Can only alter the areas already used as parking spots in order to add parking spots (so it's more about experimenting with layout/parking schemes/etc.
• Cannot alter the athletic fields as they currently stand
• Cannot tear down buildings/change the physical structures of ACF.
• Your design can move curbs.
• Aesthetics -- the design cannot look crazy/disorganized/bad.  

The Process:: 

• Take a look at satellite images of ACF to get an overall picture of campus 
• Go out in your groups and figure out how many cars are parked n different parts of campus. 
• Napkin sketch the existing lots
• From Brentwood entrance, behind the 400 down to the tennis courts
• Senior lot and Access Road
• Front loop and behind the Media Center 
• Create some conceptual models of layouts -- be creative and brainstorm.  At least five rough sketches of ideas for making more spots! 
• Here are some helpful links to possible ideas:
• https://www.mapc.org/resource-library/local-examples-compact-car-spaces/ 
• https://www.dimensions.com/element/parking-spaces
• https://qcode.us/codes/temecula/view.php?topic=17-17_24-17_24_050 
• http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/niatt_labmanual/chapters/parkinglotdesign/theoryandconcepts/parkingstalllayoutconsiderations.htm  
• https://utia.tennessee.edu/cpa/wp-content/uploads/sites/106/2020/10/CPA-222.pdf
• https://www.hobokennj.gov/resources/reverse-angle-parking

• Now start to come up with a comprehensive plan for the campus.    
• THIS IS AN ITERATIVE PROCESS -- that means it evolves as you think more about it.
• Create a FORMAL drawing of your parking lot idea. Use a ruler muppets!
• Try to keep it in scale -- this is actually pretty hard... 
• YOU NEED TO ANNOTATE THE LOTS/CHANGES THAT YOU MAKE (but you do not need to draw in all of the individual spots but you need a sample to communicate what you plan to create).  Annotations should:
• Detail the changes you made (the thinking involved)
• Give the number of parking spots created vs number that were already there 

Think about all possibilities for parking (within reason - i.e. no parking garages) -- types of spaces, size, direction, orientation, shape of the lots, etc.   You may want to look at other parking lots/set ups/ arrangements.  Check out other schools like Greer High, LR, Greenville High, Codega's High School,  other ones around for inspiration.  Use google maps!