Danube Vert Car Park

Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi

DANUBE VERT CAR PARK

COSA Colboc Sachet architectures

PHOTOGRAPHS
Camille Gharbi

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER
Cebtp Ginger

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Cte

YEAR
2019

AREA
6960 M²

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Demathieu & Bard

MANUFACTURERS
Keim, Atlas Schindler, Sfel, Agc, Resipoly

FLUIDS ENGINEERING
Cyberfluides

FACADES
V B Service

ECONOMICS
Execo

CATEGORY
Parking

LOCATION
Strasbourg, France

Text description provided by architect.

At the intersection of avenue du Rhin and rue Alfred Kastler, îlot-I, fronted by Danube Vert, marks the entrance to the Strasbourg eco-neighborhood and raises questions about changes in transport modes and the future role of the car.

Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi
Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi

The eco-neighborhood has lofty ambitions: no parking in public space but two silo car parks located on either side of the district.

Moreover, no assigned parking spaces, but dynamic space sharing between visitors, daytime residents (workers) and night-time residents (inhabitants), which creates a point of urban dynamism, encourages green travel by bicycle or tram, and reduces the acquisition cost of the apartments.

Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi
Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi

To protect the block from the impact of traffic, the car park structure forms a barrier on the busiest intersection.

The building embodies the new urban priorities for the handling of the car: the dynamic sharing of parking spaces between visitors, day residents (workers), and night residents (inhabitants) made possible by the emergence of the “smart city”.

Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi
Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi

The car park building plays its role as a cog in the workings of a hidden mechanism whereby spatial planning is unavoidably and irremediably conceived in terms of the private car.

Its architecture is a frugal interweave of steel-faced concrete enhanced with glass.

The interplay of reflections, the beauty of the obsessively repeated pattern of ironwork assemblages, imbue this building – despite its purely functional character – with a marked identity.

At the intersection of avenue du Rhin and rue Alfred Kastler, îlot-I, fronted by Danube Vert, marks the entrance to the Strasbourg eco-neighborhood and raises questions about changes in transport modes and the future role of the car.

Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi
Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi

The eco-neighborhood has lofty ambitions: no parking in public space but two silo car parks located on either side of the district.

Moreover, no assigned parking spaces, but dynamic space sharing between visitors, daytime residents (workers) and night-time residents (inhabitants), which creates a point of urban dynamism, encourages green travel by bicycle or tram and reduces the acquisition cost of the apartments.

Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi
Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi

To protect the block from the impact of traffic, the car park structure forms a barrier on the busiest intersection. The building embodies the new urban priorities for the handling of the car.

The dynamic sharing of parking spaces between visitors, day residents (workers), and night residents (inhabitants) made possible by the emergence of the “smart city”.

The car park building plays its role as a cog in the workings of a hidden mechanism whereby spatial planning is unavoidably and irremediably conceived in terms of the private car.

Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi
Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi

Its architecture is a frugal interweave of steel-faced concrete enhanced with glass.

The interplay of reflections, the beauty of the obsessively repeated pattern of ironwork assemblages, imbue this building – despite its purely functional character – with a marked identity.

Danube Vert Car Park
© Camille Gharbi


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