The project of overground automated parking was developed for the Areal residential complex in Lyubertsy and has already been shown at Zodchestvo 2017. Instead of the Stalinist two-storey buildings buried in greenery, the area outside the Moscow Ring Road is now intensively and densely built up with residential complexes up to 22 floors high, Areal is no exception.
The architects of the Bogachkin and Bogachkin bureau designed two symmetrical volumes of automated parking lots by order of the developer of the residential complex, for the longest building of its last stage - it is called the First Club House, consists of seven sections and will be stretched along Kirov Street. Parking lots will help clear the courtyard of the house from cars.
The underground part of the parking lot is located not under the house, but under its courtyard. Two above-ground buildings grow symmetrically at the edges of the underground part on the sides of a long courtyard. They have ten floors, two of them, the eighth and ninth, are occupied by offices, on the tenth - a cafe with a terrace. Floors from the third to the seventh are occupied by an automatic parking, which works as follows:
“The driver leaves the car in the loading module of the 1st floor on a special platform. After people leave the loading module, the system automatically, using lifts and robots - shuttles, moving horizontally on the parking floors, parks the car in a free space. The driver receives the car in a similar way: In the client room on the 1st floor, using the RIFD card, the driver “calls” his car from the parking lot. The monitor shows in which of the free boxes the car is being delivered, the box gates open, and the driver leaves. The time for picking up a car does not exceed one and a half minutes. The parking is very compact due to the lack of driveways and ramps."
Since the above-ground levels of the parking, unlike offices and cafes, are not heated, the architects had to tinker with the issues of thermal insulation; but for the investor, this decision turned out to be profitable.
However, architects look at their ten-story garages-offices not only technically, but also aesthetically, considering them the main accent of the yard. Parts assigned to an overhead automated parking are covered with a translucent glass profile; at night they will shine, showing the shadows of machines moved by automation; “… A kaleidoscope of moving cars looks unusual in the evening, destroying the idea of parking as a utilitarian technical structure,” the authors comment on their decision. The aesthetics are supported by a yellow screen in front of the first floor and glass canopies of the entrance groups.
