Car Park: a series of buildings that are charged by the patrons that occupy them, using the energy in their car batteries. This takes the form of three freestanding towers that are “plugged in” to a road network that is embedded within the site.
Three iconic buildings from car culture’s history were reinvented into a supercharged tower form: The Drive-Thru Restuarant, The Drive-in Cinema, and the Motor Hotel (Motel).
Compact size electric cars entering from the street are directed on to a second tier road nestling above the rooves of the existing buildings.This elevated circuit links each of the towers allowing patrons to choose their destination and take a helix route up into the plug-in building attatched above. Each plug-in tower is accessed via a typical helixical route, which is then modified to suit the functional requirements of the building. The building’s systems of energy donation are unique to each type.
Car Park: cars and pedestrians mingle on the street in the shadow of the drive-thru towers
Car Park: assembly diagram of drive-thru towers plugging in to network.
Car Park (a.k.a. Cyborg Urbanism)
Car Park: people frollick on the "scab" - a park above the existing buildings and beneath the drive-thru towers. Drop-off/pick-up road lanes bleed into the space, blurring the pedestrian/car domains.
Car Park: Level 2 - showing the "subdermal" road network that connects the towers to each other.
Car Park: people look for rides back on to the street or into the drive-thru towers.
Car Park: section showing the double-helix road stems that allow cars from the network into the drive-thru towers. Pink = motel, green = cinema.
Car Park: the drive-in cinema tower. Cars are perched on to a shelf via an elevator system to face out towards the park where there is a screen on to which the film is projected.
Car Park: cars donate energy farmed from solar panels in the suburbs into civic buildings. Energy as a currency. Be sustainable, grow your own!
Car Park: clockwise from top left = Drive-thru cinema (cars enter elevator, and placed on shelf); Motel room (cars power the facilities of the room, essentially urban camping); Motel tower (rooms circulate the helixical core); Drive-thru restaurant tower (fast food restaurants stacked on top of one another)
Car Park: drive-in cinema tower
