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Originally Posted by memph
I'll run some different scenarios to avoid having this problem.
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Scenario 2: The endless slab
Slab buildings have been pretty popular in the past, sometimes arranged in rows and columns tower-in-the-park style. By the way... while the scenarios I'm describing might creating some soulless landscapes, I'm putting that aside for now and just going for a density efficiency argument.
So lets say that the slabs are 70 ft thick, just like the wings of the buildings in the previous scenario. Assuming hallways are about 10ft, that means all rooms in the apartments would be at most 30ft from the edge of the building (i.e. a potential window). Some condo buildings might be a bit "thicker" but generally not much, and they typically have all glass curtain wall which is many not ideal and still bring up complaints about having many rooms without windows. So... 70 ft thick and again using the 1/3 of height separation distance rule.
1 storey: 0.91 FSI
5 storey: 3.39 FSI
12 storey: 5.60 FSI
75 storey: 9.21 FSI
500 storey: 10.28 FSI
So you've got some decent increases from 1 to 5 to 12 storey, and to 75 storeys is good too (though most of the increase is from 12 to 50 storeys), but after that the increase is pretty small and just not really worth it.