Practical guides for architects and land owners: how to read a zoning status, how coverage and FAR are calculated, what setbacks mean, and how AI floor-plan generation actually works. Written by an architecture practice, not a marketing team.
TAKS & KAKS (FAR): what they are, how to calculateCoverage ratio, floor area ratio, gross area bands and a worked example — plus the free land-share calculator.How to check the zoning status of a parcelWhere zoning information lives, what the plan notes mean, and how RONCHAMP reads official sources in 21 countries.Setbacks: front, side and rear distancesWhy setbacks exist, typical values, how they shape the buildable footprint — with diagrams from real studies.AI floor-plan generation: how it really worksArchive retrieval, a small in-house plan model and a constraint solver — with independent verification instead of pretty guesses.
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