Design outline - in collaboration with Nissan
Urban parking is in need of a renovation. Ideas must challenge current perceptions of urban parking and offer a tougher, sleeker, or even playful rendering of it. The urban parking challenge is open to innovative designers with a bold and daring vision.
Idea description
‘The Qashqai Tower, urban vertical parking system’
Located in the City of London, Canon Street, this design could be a new solution to the city parking problems; the concept is base on a three by three parking space grid layout on a triangular form 915 meter sq, providing a total of 63 car parking spaces (3 x 3 x 7); by saving the footprint of the structure, each module has been rotated at 90 degree up vertically.
Additional modular parking cell can be constructed on top of the original structure in the future to expand the number of car parking spaces depending on the urban conditions. The parking system is mainly powered by solar panels Integrated by the side of the column; wind turbine on top of the tower will generate additional power from the prevailing wind, also rainwater will be collected and recycle back to the local community.