The American Architect
Vol. CXV
Wednesday, May 21, 1919 Number 2265
PHOTO 10. MAIN DRIVE AT JUNCTION WITH ENTRANCE TURN
Note provision for lawn to right of drive and at living end of house. See A, fig. 7 also photos 11 and 19.
Garage and Entrance Turns—Part I.
By A. D. Taylor, Landscape Architect and Town Planner*
THE introduction of the automobile and its present universal use both for pleasure and
industrial traffic has developed a new problem. Tins problem is the laying out of garage turns and entrance turns, and is presented to thousands of owners of both small and large homes throughout the country. Road space once ample for the use of horse vehicles has become within the past few years entirely inadequate for the use of the automobile. These new problems of width of road and degrees of curvature have been most acute at the entrance to residence and garage, although in some measure they appear along the course of the entrance drive itself. These problems have been
*All illustrations are from work designed and photographed by the author.
solved, not by definite rules deduced as a result of experience in designing these turns, but rather by “the rule of thumb’’ method.
This subject is worthy of detailed discussion, and it is the purpose of the present article to bring together for comparison and reference some of the results obtained in practice, as shown in the designs of various garage and entrance turns, each of which has been fitted to the actual curves of the wheel tracks under the conditions locally imposed by the size of the garage and the car, by the relation of garage location to property lines and residence, and by the direction of approach.
Unfortunately, there is very little available diagramatic data pertaining to areas and outlines of garage and entrance turns in which an automobile
Copyright, 1919, The Architectural & Building Press (Inc.)
Vol. CXV
Wednesday, May 21, 1919 Number 2265
PHOTO 10. MAIN DRIVE AT JUNCTION WITH ENTRANCE TURN
Note provision for lawn to right of drive and at living end of house. See A, fig. 7 also photos 11 and 19.
Garage and Entrance Turns—Part I.
By A. D. Taylor, Landscape Architect and Town Planner*
THE introduction of the automobile and its present universal use both for pleasure and
industrial traffic has developed a new problem. Tins problem is the laying out of garage turns and entrance turns, and is presented to thousands of owners of both small and large homes throughout the country. Road space once ample for the use of horse vehicles has become within the past few years entirely inadequate for the use of the automobile. These new problems of width of road and degrees of curvature have been most acute at the entrance to residence and garage, although in some measure they appear along the course of the entrance drive itself. These problems have been
*All illustrations are from work designed and photographed by the author.
solved, not by definite rules deduced as a result of experience in designing these turns, but rather by “the rule of thumb’’ method.
This subject is worthy of detailed discussion, and it is the purpose of the present article to bring together for comparison and reference some of the results obtained in practice, as shown in the designs of various garage and entrance turns, each of which has been fitted to the actual curves of the wheel tracks under the conditions locally imposed by the size of the garage and the car, by the relation of garage location to property lines and residence, and by the direction of approach.
Unfortunately, there is very little available diagramatic data pertaining to areas and outlines of garage and entrance turns in which an automobile
Copyright, 1919, The Architectural & Building Press (Inc.)