Parkings at the End of the Automobile Era
Parkings at the End of the Automobile Era
- UrbanNext, June 30, 2022.
- 629 words.
Data, DATA Architectes, Densities, Formats, High Density, Territory and mobility, Topics, Urban Paradigms
Adaptive reuse, Architecture, Architecture’s challenge, automobile, Building, Built environment, Carbon-neutral, City, City living, Construction, Data, Efficiency, France, Functionality, History, Paris, Potential, Refitting Places, Residential, Structure, Territory&Mobility, Urban Paradigms, Vacancy
Excerpt from the exhibition "Immeubles pour Automobiles", comissioned by DATA architectes, held in Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris 2018
In the golden age of Parisian garages between the wars, after the Glorious Thirties, came the era of mass parking areas built to accompany the democratization of the automobile. The archetype evolved towards a form of architectural and urban structure that was rationalized to the extreme, elementary, technically and economically optimized, potentially repetitive and duplicable to infinity. Like factories, supermarkets or warehouses, parking structures were a standardized built figure centered on a single function – in this case to park motorized vehicles.
2575-5374
Automobile Architecture Exhibition Paris, France France
Data, DATA Architectes, Densities, Formats, High Density, Territory and mobility, Topics, Urban Paradigms
Adaptive reuse, Architecture, Architecture’s challenge, automobile, Building, Built environment, Carbon-neutral, City, City living, Construction, Data, Efficiency, France, Functionality, History, Paris, Potential, Refitting Places, Residential, Structure, Territory&Mobility, Urban Paradigms, Vacancy
Excerpt from the exhibition "Immeubles pour Automobiles", comissioned by DATA architectes, held in Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris 2018
In the golden age of Parisian garages between the wars, after the Glorious Thirties, came the era of mass parking areas built to accompany the democratization of the automobile. The archetype evolved towards a form of architectural and urban structure that was rationalized to the extreme, elementary, technically and economically optimized, potentially repetitive and duplicable to infinity. Like factories, supermarkets or warehouses, parking structures were a standardized built figure centered on a single function – in this case to park motorized vehicles.
2575-5374
Automobile Architecture Exhibition Paris, France France