For those of you who always dreamed at your very own top-secret underground parking, like those you saw in movies here is an innovative design that aims to tackle the growing loss of front gardens to car park space in urban areas. A West London resident decided to combine the garden an the parking space together, and he has developed a unique design to deal with the loss of front garden areas to car parking space in urban environments. The final result is very practical and it shows how a beautiful garden and parking space can be combined to help maintain the aesthetic appearance of a street. Found via – 1, 2
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I WANT THAT SO MUCH WHEN I GET MY OWN PLACE
And yes, I can type without caps.
one day you lay down your car and… cannot open it, haha
it’s a known idea… practical, but expensive !!!
Never going to readily be used, one day someone is going to get trapped underground or killed by being closed on.
It’s not a real house, it is from a garden show, it is a concept, a good one though but not sure how practical
TO THE BAT CAVE!!
Too bad it got stuck during the presentation… I would have liked to see how the garden looked when it was fully submerged.
“Your f****ng Zen garden ate my Porsche!!! “
It is a real idea. There is one in my neighbourhood. The only people who could possibly afford this are the people who own the type of car you can only feel safe hiding underground
Great idea. Could double up as a cheimcal attack bunker!!!
Bag the garage, I want the car!!!
Doesn’t sound that expensive. Just a big hydraulic lift.
photoshoped !!!1
What if you parked your car wrong by like a couple of feet?
see also: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ptHZaedvA
I always thought you could do something similar with a bed. Except when you get up in the morning you you would just raise it up into the ceiling.
I guess a practical use could be if you had a lot of cars in an underground parking garage, thus allowing you to drive in with one, but drive out with another. Once again, only good for the rich.
In the summer of 2001, I was in Paris, where i saw near a side
street, what looked like a one car garage, made out of glass.
a car drove in, the driver got out, leaving the car alone inside.
then the driver went to an atm-like machine and did some stuff.
the floor that the car was parked on turned out to be a platform,
which lowered, then got whisked away.
It’s been many years since then, so now these garages have popped
up in places like Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY. the link (my name) is
to a company that makes automated garages. I could imagine parking
a car in a driveway like in the photo above on this page, but then
the car would get stored in a large central garage, maybe for the
entire neighborhood, or on a smaller scale, maybe a robotic parking
system for the home would store a few vehicles, under the driveway.
My luck I’d park it wrong and the car
would flip over as it decended.
I think I will need one of these when I become a super hero!
I’m convinced that this guy is James Bond.
They have these in Japan – even on a large scale. You drive
into this elevator like thing which is actually a ferris wheel of
cars. You then punch a number to get your car back.
For homes and apartments, they are usually two or three tier. The
elevator works exactly in the way you show it and again, you put
in a key or punch a number to get your car.
would suck when it snows
This is awesome – There is so much avoidance to the dangers
you guys talk about. Say it has sensors just like garage doors
that know if someone is between it closing, or if someone were to
get locked down there a button could easily bring them up or
possibly a door that leads to the house. It has the same chance
of opening just as anyones garage door.
I like it.
looks good on paper, but what if the lift fails? you’d be without a car
okay folks couple of problems here , first what if your car doesn’t
fit all the way wont the pretuding edges of a poorly parked car
get crushed when it closes , and i agree with the power failures
or hydrualic failures people could be trapped unless there is a
service hatch or short tunnel leading into the side other wise a
great idea hope to see it being used for proper applications
how much does it cost to build like that any idea ?
i double that, scrape the garage just give me the car. cool idea
though
what if it rains a TON? Someone’s super-car better have sonar.
the cost? probably in between $150k to $250k depending on where
you are, and how much the people around will charge, as to the
tapped and killed, i think it goes without saying there is a way
out at the bottom, i mean come on think for a second. Also if you
notice the car has room, im sure if you parked in facing the house y
you could get it in there nicely. over all great idea, i want one,
i need $1.5mill to buy a house, the car and then the contraption.
Would it be cheaper if it was a ramp rather than lift and then then
the garden could roll over once the car was in? I mean i know it
would be expensive but its a idea for new builds!
I like the idea of it
Great !!!!!!!!!!!
Not a new idea in any way, similar ideas have been around for 10+years..
It is a good idea, unless there is any chance of even a small flood in your area. In which case your car would be ruined straight away.
How much? But then again if you can afford a place and 911 turbo
like that then it’s all good
Cool! Hopefully, your power won’t ever go out when you need your car…
What if someone is lounging or walking on top when someone decides to raise it ? And what’s to keep someone from parking on top when it’s down? Nothing that can’t be overcome with good planning I suppose.
Um, they have tons of car elevators in Asia. I routinely park my car
in a basement that you go down into via elevator. This is simply a
different take on an existing concept.
There are also parking towers that are really huge ferris-wheel-like
racks of cars within buildings and elevated parking in which a
few spaces are rotated so cars can be “stacked” above one another.
This is not “impossible”. In fact it already exists.
As for flood danger? People park in basement levels all the time in
cities. Generally cars are not destroyed.
so no one actually thought that a heavy downpour of rain and you might end up with a flooded car?
Pretty cool, albeit very impractical.
Flooding isn’t so much of a problem, it could be made reasonably
water-tight and a drain in the bottom would handle any water that
leaked in. In the case of an actual flood, the 6 extra feet deep
wouldn’t make much difference.
It needs to be considerably bigger, we expect our parking solutions
to work for many years, who’s to say the next car won’t be a
F-350 crew-cab dually 4×4?
That is incredible. It’s funny that it’s sitting outside of a modular (less expensive) home
hmmmm I live in CA… I can see potential earthquake problems…
at least trying to explain it to the insurance companies
I’ve seen this done with a guy who has a lambo collection. He had about
ten cars and needed spots for them, so he had lifts like this.
In NYC in some of the parking garages, they have this except it is
all above ground (well in the basement actually), and you drive one
car up and then there is two spots instead of one. they have some
that go a lot higher too.
This is the real deal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKci0TRMyTw
5!…4!…3!…2!…1!…Thunderbirds are GO!
Great system… until it breaks and your car is stuck underground.
it’s very expensive to build, consumes a lot of electricity,
and in fact, doesn’t save any space, it might also be
a big problem:
1) when there’s a power faillure
2) if you didn’t pay your bill
3) there’s heavy rain, and the extraction of water is not enough,
(and the car is not a submarine, as James Bond’s)
what are you building next a GIANT LASER in the roof of the house?
James’es Bond Home
Stop picking holes in it – I think it’s a very clever design. If any of thosse things happen, it will not be your problem and therefore you do not need to feel obliged to point them out.
Forget about the James Bond gimmick, check out that hairy wall… nice.
Very cool, and economical too.
To answer all the nay sayers.
Make sure you have a watertight seal.
And have a scooter or something just in case.
Nothings perfect, geeze.
yeah, and let’s oppress some poor people and make them build it for us!
i think if i can afford to build such a parking and get such a car, i might as well be able to pay my bills and have this thing water-proof….anyways its a cool idea and might be a real solution one ay
If any of my neigbors buy one of these things im gonna order 2Tons of
gravel delivered to top of his driveway.
really love the concept of the underground car park…but one must also consider the negative aspects too…so any one who cares to share can drop a mail on napoleon2904@yahoo.com…cos i would really love to have it installed
GREAT against thieves I’d say. Better that any car alarm.
I believe that if properly built and with an alternative (locked) system of lifting the car besides power, it can be top notch.
Giving someone a job to provide for their family is anything but “suppressing poor people.” People with money create jobs. Sheesh.