Carloft
A Carloft is a living concept by the architect Manfred Dick in which cars are lifted to the level of the apartments and have a parking space there. Contrary to the name, a Carloft is usually not a loft apartment in the classic sense.
The Carloft received a European patent .
background
The Carloft concept is an invention of the Berlin architect Manfred Dick. He assumes that future social and climatic changes will make it necessary for architects to develop new living concepts.
Dick sees the increasingly problematic parking situation in residential and commercial areas in small and large cities as a particularly big challenge in the coming years . This problem has long been the subject of investigations and scientific studies, the approach of which is to develop buildings that allow parking close to home or work. These can be buildings that provide parking spaces for vehicles on the same floor level as apartments, retail and commercial premises. Dick calls his proposed solution the "CarLoft principle".
history
On January 28, 2004, Carloft GmbH was founded in Berlin. The entrepreneur Johannes Kauka is the managing director and partner . Shortly after it was founded, Carloft GmbH registered the concept named after it as a patent , which is now valid in Europe and many other countries around the world.
On August 31, 2005, the building permit for the world's first residential building integrating the Carloft concept was granted. Shortly afterwards, in October 2005, it was presented to the specialist public for the first time in Munich at Expo Real , Europe's largest trade fair for real estate and investments.
In 2010, the project developer Johannes Kauka completed the world's first Carloft building in Berlin . The building is located in the immediate vicinity of Paul-Lincke-Ufer in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The starting point for planning was the location of the property at an intersection with a difficult groundwater situation . Since the installation of an underground car park was not possible, the Carloft concept offered the possibility of accommodating the required parking spaces on the upper levels of the new building. At the same time, the old trees in the inner courtyard could be preserved, as this did not have to be sealed by an underground car park. The project comprises eleven residential and one commercial unit.
criticism
The Carloft concept is controversial precisely because of the integrated parking space. Critics particularly criticize the space required by the car lift and the parking space within the apartment, as well as the associated iconization of the car. Proponents, on the other hand, argue that the CarLoft concept can counteract the shortage of parking spaces in city centers and the construction of (mostly expensive and sometimes unrealizable) underground car parks .
However, the prototype, completed in 2009 in Berlin-Kreuzberg ( 52 ° 29 ′ 35 ″ N , 13 ° 26 ′ 5 ″ E ), is based on a design for open plan apartments that only a high income group of buyers can afford. This first implementation of the concept with a total of eleven Carlofts is located at the intersection of Reichenberger and Liegnitzer Strasse and was designed as part of the residential and commercial complex "Paul-Lincke-Höfe".
The settlement of the Carloft in Berlin-Kreuzberg is received negatively by the neighborhood, which is regarded as an alternative. While the marketing of the Carloft advertises safety from the more frequent arson attacks on vehicles in Kreuzberg, there were demonstrations and property damage to the building. A demonstration ran under the motto: "Make Carlofts a ruin!" There were also paint bags - and stones thrown at the building. The Carloft is seen as a symbol of the gentrification of the neighborhood, which is increasing rents and living costs and displacing the local population.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patent number 1419302
- ↑ Manfred Dick, architect + inventor of the Carloft. Retrieved on February 24, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Strategy portal : Manfred Dick. Strategy portal, accessed on February 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Melanie Kuhlmann: From bed to car in just a few steps. Lift-Journal, accessed on February 24, 2020 (German, English).
- ^ Berlin - Paul-Lincke-Ufer - carloft. Retrieved on February 24, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Elke Hartmann-Wolff: WG with PKW in Focus 40/2008, p. 96
- ↑ Militant activists fight against gentrification by throwing paint bags and stones. That lowers the value of the property - and annoys the residents
- ↑ Julian Heissler: Gated Communities - Dead Safe in Isolation , Spiegel Online, October 22, 2009