Park your car in your appartment’s balcony
Yep that’s true, as attested by this article in german newspaper Die Welt: in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg, some folks wants to allow people to drive their car into an elevator and up to the front door of their apartment:
Autofetischisten werden diese Immobilie lieben. Im Berliner Stadtteil Kreuzberg planen die Projektgesellschaft Topos Paul-Lincke Höfe GmbH & Co. KG und der österreichische Projektentwickler Porr Solutions Lofts mit Parkplätzen direkt auf der Wohnetage. Die Bewohner der Appartements sollen also mit ihrem “heiligen Blechle” unten in den Autolift fahren und kommen direkt in ihrer Wohnung an.
The architect who wants do this is Manfred Dick. The point is to have elevators at either end of the apartment to let people drive up their car to their balcony… The crux issue here is to let people feel more “security and convenience.”
March 9th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
[…] I’ve never seen this mentioned before so I thought I would mention it: I first read about the idea of the Loft Car in one of Nicolas’ post. German architects Manfred Dick (who sought a patent for his concept) and Johannes Kauka want to help drivers park their car right on their appartment’s balcony. […]
March 12th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
[…] I first read about the idea of the Loft Car in one of Nicolas’ post. German architects Manfred Dick (who sought a patent for his concept) and Johannes Kauka want to help drivers park their car right on their appartment’s balcony. […]