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Headline : Designers Create Sustainable Car Parks For An Eco-Responsible Generation
Caption : IN PHOTO: PROTOCOL PHASE 5 – USE: At this final stage, the site is operational. It is vegetated, the growing areas produce food and the whole site produces green energy.

A French architecture studio have designed an ecological parking space that rethinks commercial parking areas and transforms it into a more sustainable and humane place.

Every year, France uses 66,600 tons of plant protection pesticides for its agriculture and produces 4.5 million tons of plastics, of which only 22% are recycled. Almost 48,000 deaths are attributed to fine particle pollution and automobile activity, and the planet is still expected to endure. In such grave situations, urban developments have become subject to new ecological criteria that focus on finding bio-diverse solutions for both public and private sectors.

In compliance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030 that aims to find eco-responsible urban solutions, Studio NAB created Car Parks 2.0.

To transform the car park into an ecological site, the design studio converted the sterile coated soils into autonomous green spaces, recycling the asphalt areas into natural terrains that reintroduce biodiversity. Designated areas in the proposed project are transformed into an agri-food sector, giving people the ability to rent or sell gardening spaces to buy and produce “zero-packaging” fruits and vegetables.

The project ensures eco-responsibility by introducing sustainable means throughout the site. The hypermarket and parking are powered by solar panels installed on site. The surplus of energy produced is resold to the neighbouring houses, generating an additional income and providing the parking’s neighbourhood with sustainable energy. Rainwater is recovered and filtered in natural ground, and the organic waste is recycled.
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