CarLoft Designs Apartments With Individual Car-Parking on Ba

Gaieus

There is a big, commercial, multi-storey car-park being planned under this square in my home town:

They are planning to use those lifts here, too.
I just don't know if it is a fast way of getting a lot of cars in/out during rush hours - especially when here there would be enough space to build the conventional drive-ins/outs...

Edson

@gaieus said:

We have underground car parks under the building I have my flat and the parking spaces are not individually closed either (or course only people having a lot there can open the parking gate).
No problem with it - my car never has been stolen (maybe because I don't even own a car )

this is the usual way in brasil wherever there is a private parking facility (under or on the ground). i have never known of a building's parking garage in which the parking spaces are enclosed individually.

Mike Lucey

Hi Guys,

I thought this topic would raise some interest as it did
with me.

I don't know the cost involved BUT I imagine it could not
be that prohibitive as the lift would NOT have to be highly
finished! Not to the same standard as a passenger (only)
lift with all the mirrors, chrome etc! Only one way to
find out, I'll email them for a ballpark figure :ewink:

I've been thinking about the problem of multiple car owners
and I think it would be possible to have a lift that would
have the option of driving forward (off) or reversing (off)
when at the living deck!

This way at least two car could be accommodated. And maybe
more if the lift was called up or a sliding floor was brought
into the system to allow cars to be shuffled on the deck. Heck
you could have 4 or five cars up there thus allowing more space
for tree planting etc at ground level

I've discovered another interesting product while on my quest
but will start a new topic for this.

Mike

SchreiberBike

I also imagine that if the car is on a tray of some sort rather than driven on and off the elevator under its own power, that you could drive onto the tray and the computer would deliver the car to your apartment on its own. The same way, you could order the computer to deliver your car at street level when you plan to leave in the morning.

But . . . probably some of the desire to do this would be for people to be able to step from their apartment door into their car without having contact with the rest of the world, so that votes against an automated system which would pre-position the car.

The first idea does have some potential for highly dense parking structures though. Could be operated by cell-phone.

boofredlay

This thread reminded me of this one we found while working on a high rise last year.
This is of Volkswagen’s Autostadt customer center in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Here is a blog about auto elevators. Interesting ideas.
http://cityskip.blogspot.com/2007/03/parking-as-destination.html

mateo soletic

We had a project where similar lift was planned to be used. The driver would order for his car and would wait for it from 20 mins to half an hour which was a bit inconvenient,if you want to rush to a hospital - but finally the price was the main issue.

Krisidious

WOW Boo... that's incredible. looks extremely unsafe if drivers are up there... but if it's all automated then WOW!

Dave R

I remember a parking structure from the 70s in Madison, Wisconsin, near the capitol building. You drove your car into a sort of box and got out. The operator gave you a tag with a number on it and wisked your car up and into a number space. It was sort of like a vending machine in reverse. Then when you wanted your car back, they sent the thing up to get it. It was all open steel structure and as I recall there was nothing but a grate under the cars. The thing put a lot of cars in a small space but I wouldn't want to have my car stuck under some old leaky thing dripping oil. I think they called it an automat.

Mike Lucey

Here is a Germany company with some quite ingenious parking systems,
http://www.klausparking.com/about.asp

Mike

FormalyKnownAsMartin

This is an other german company : Wöhr (it might be the biggest in Germany)
http://www.woehr.de/downloads/objektblaetter/Objektblatt_06_ALBANY_LIVERPOOL.pdf
http://www.woehr.de/de/projekte/madrid_m710/index.htm