Rooftop Solar & Space Planner
Size your solar system, see what a lower tilt really costs you, check it fits your roof, get a wind-resistant structure concept that beats the local-fabricator failure point — and turn the shaded space underneath the panels into a usable rooftop room instead of wasting it.
Location: Faisal Hills / B-17 / Taxila / Islamabad (33.73°N). Figures indicative; final system, structure and slab confirmed by our team.
See it from your rooftop · optional, AI-assisted
Upload a few rooftop photos, or paste an unlisted YouTube walkthrough link, and we'll read the obstructions, shading and rough usable area to fill in the form. For measurements from video, keep a measuring tape or a standard object in frame as a scale reference.
An illustrative concept of a 8 kW array with a usable space underneath — not a final design.
Measure your roof from a photo · premium, to-scale
Upload a near-top-down photo with a known length in frame (a 1 m tape or a standard object). Mark the two ends of that length, then tap your roof — we return a measured area. The 2.5 m canopy height is drawn to scale on your photo so you can picture the real thing.
Measured area assumes a roughly top-down photo; oblique shots are approximate. To-scale height is a 2-D visual, confirmed on the site visit.
Recommended system
Sized to cover your consumption; enter a target kW on the left to size to your own number.
Tilt & orientation trade-off
At 10° facing South, this array makes about 11,134 kWh/year. That's roughly 4.5% (524 kWh/year) less than the optimal 30° due south — the cost of a flatter or turned array.
Does it fit your roof?
The array needs about 36 m² of your 74 m². It fits, leaving space for the usable areas below.
Lay out the panels on your roof · drag tanks, click panels
20 columns on a ~3 m grid, tied by beams and cross-bracing on every side.
Auto-packed at a flush row pitch (0.3 m setback, 0.2 m keep-out). Shadows are indicative for Summer 9:00 — final layout confirmed on site.
Wind-resistant structure
Tilted panels act like wings — wind uplift here exceeds the system's own weight, so the roof connection is governed by anchorage, not ballast. This is exactly why locally-fabricated frames (which fail around 110 km/h) are unsafe against our 144 km/h design gust.
Preliminary concept only. The final member sizes, connections and anchorage are engineered and sealed by Al Ammana's structural engineer (ASCE 7 wind, confirmed per Building Code of Pakistan) before fabrication.
Structure material & engineered design
Standing headroom for most uses — seating, drying yard, storage, utility.
The frame is an elevated clear-span canopy — column grid and height are set so the space underneath stays open and usable, not a flush mount.
A commercial-grade, stamped-ready design — released only after our engineer approves it and the design fee is settled. It includes:
- Full member schedule (sections, grades, lengths, weights)
- Base-plate & chemical-anchor footing detail
- Wind load summary + anchorage design
- Usable-space clearance & layout notes
- Stamped-ready sheet for fabrication
Indicative design fee PKR 15,000. Leave your details — our engineer reviews it and sends a secure unlock link.
Can your roof carry it?
Well within a standard RCC roof's capacity — safe when the structure loads are spread across footings.
Use the space underneath
The elevated panels create a 36 m² shaded canopy. Instead of wasting it, design it as:
Laid out for Islamabad's NW breeze and the sun path — a rooftop room, not a dead deck.
Indicative Tier-1 estimate from verified location data, building science and ASCE 7 wind. System price, structural design, existing-slab capacity and net-metering are confirmed by Al Ammana's engineers (quote only) before any work.