Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Underground Parking - Parking Machine

[Jock Coats (jock.coats]

It sounds really interesting, but the drawing on the website does not 
make it apparent how it works.  E.g it implies that the lift is to one 
end of each storey.  If you are the first car stored in a storey how 
does it get you out first?

I would have thought it would have to operate in two planes like a 
pigeon hole system.  But that's not so much a bar as an opportunity to 
produce different layouts.

Certainly our planning authorities would have great difficulty with 
something that had to be 40+ meters high to cope with just sixty cars 
(even with some of it underground - we have maximum structure heights 
of 16-20 meters in historic Oxford!) but operating in a horizontal and 
a vertical plane you could have double racks, albeit lower and using 
more ground space, but still more space efficient than drive in parking.

Jock


On Saturday, Dec 28, 2002, at 21:02 Europe/London, Fred H Olson wrote:
> See Automated Mechanical Parking  http://3dok.com/carpark
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