A residential capacity study translating New York City zoning text into comparable development envelopes and early feasibility summaries.
Zoning controls are interpreted as spatial constraints, allowing dimensional rules to be tested as three-dimensional development envelopes rather than isolated code references.
Custom Grasshopper workflows automate core development calculations—including FAR, GSF, ZSF, unit counts and parking assumptions—so the same method can be applied consistently across multiple sites and compared efficiently.
The value of the study is not the automation alone; it is the ability to make code, capacity and development trade-offs easier to understand early in the design process.