Park House envisions converting multi-storey car parks into apartment blocks
Our latest MINI Living video features a conceptual housing project, with houses made from shipping containers placed within repurposed multi-storey parking garages.
Park House is a proposal by American firm KTGY Architecture + Planning to transform unused parking garages into the framework for housing units that would be built from industrial shipping containers.
The Park House concept proposes combining shipping containers with unused parking structures to create apartments
Each unit would combine three shipping containers to form a 960-square-feet (89-square-metre) apartment fitted with bathroom and kitchen facilities.
In KTGY Architecture + Planning's proposal the containers' side panels would be removed to open up the structure, which would be reinforced with steel beams and prefabricated walls, separating the space into different rooms. A small space underneath each container would allow for plumbing and electricity to be installed. Each unit would be fitted with living spaces, a wash room and a kitchen
The housing units would then be "plugged" into the side of unused multi-storey parking garages side by side to create rows of apartments.
According to KTGY Architecture + Planning, a suitable parking structures for conversion would have multiple storeys. A courtyard would be carved out during its conversion, in order to create social space for residents and supply daylight to the apartments.
Rows of apartments would be created by "plugging" mu...
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