The Most Effective Utilisation of Underground Space

Automobiles play an important role in modern society as a mode of transport. However, they are in use just 3-5% of their life time, while they are parked in the remainder of life time. In other words, cars are parking for 23 hours a day. Considering the scarcity of available land space, if a huge land area is used only for parking purpose, it can not be considered that the land is used in optimum manner. It is ideal that car parking is located underground and above ground space is used for residential space, amenity area or natural environment.

ECO Park is a fully automatic underground parking system developed by Giken Seisakusho Co., Ltd. with the design concept of “Culture Aboveground, Function Underground”. One of the important features of the Eco-park is to provide parking space very close to the destination. It satisfies the concept of “door to door parking”, which solves parking problems in urban areas and allows car drivers and passengers to arrive their destination faster. More importantly, it preserves the surrounding scenery by having its functional facilities located below ground. Considering the difficulties of underground construction in restricted working space, the press-in technology is the most efficient to solve these problems. The Eco-park is a good example in promoting cultures above ground by serving its function as a car park below ground.