Yikes
SAWHORSE
IBC table 506.2 lists allowable area for buildings that are "one story above grade plane", aka "S1".
Example: A-3 occupancy on a one story building is 36,000. If multistory, it's only 28,000.
Let's take that and place it on top of a one story concrete podium (on-grade parking underneath the podium), and the podium provides an IBC 510.2 "horizontal building separation allowance", and the A-3 building is allowed to be considered as separate and distinct for the purposes of calculating area limitations, limitations of number of stories, etc.)
Does that mean I get to treat the upper A-3 level as if it was NOT more than one story above grade plane?
Example: A-3 occupancy on a one story building is 36,000. If multistory, it's only 28,000.
Let's take that and place it on top of a one story concrete podium (on-grade parking underneath the podium), and the podium provides an IBC 510.2 "horizontal building separation allowance", and the A-3 building is allowed to be considered as separate and distinct for the purposes of calculating area limitations, limitations of number of stories, etc.)
Does that mean I get to treat the upper A-3 level as if it was NOT more than one story above grade plane?