One of the worst ways to wake up it to realize that your car isn't parked in the appropriate alternate side parking spot. You rush out, jammies still on, eyes still crusted over, and then drive around for an hour trying to find a spot. Not the best part of waking up. But, garages are a bit of a luxury, plus they tend to take up valuable home real estate. Moto Designshop has designed an 18-foot wide townhouse with a one car garage that brings a front yard, rather than taking one away...
Rather than driving down into a garage, the Grid House, being built in Philly, uses a lift to bring your car subterranean. Once downstairs, the topside of the elevator reveals a green roof that's now a little lawn on the ground floor. When the lift is up, the green roof becomes a second-story garden. Wooden walls open and close depending on how much privacy you want.
via Treehugger
(Images: A Weekly Dose of Architecture via Moto DesignShop)
posted originally from: Unplggd
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That is really an elegant solution to the proliferation of ground-floor garage doors that we are faced with as pedestrians in Philadelphia. Unfortunately it does not address the issue that a curb-cut removes an on-street parking space that can be shared by multiple users and increase pedestrian safety by providing a buffer between traffic and the sidewalk.
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You know what my favorite solution to the "ohnoes, alternate side parking!" dilemma is?
Not having a frakking car in a city large, dense, and complex enough to need such schemes.
Take the subway. You will never have to worry about where your car is parked, ever again.
This personal car elevator is as sad as the apartment featured in New York Magazine a few weeks ago which decided to reinvent the window via a complex system of air jets. Since when is "improving" on existing efficient technology by wasting energy an environmentally friendly solution to anything?
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