The world’s most advanced fully automated multi‑storey parking structure (Germany)

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2019-06-01 11:11

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The more you play, the more off-road.

These two glass buildings are The new car parking lot at Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg plant in Germany It is part of the Volkswagen Glass Factory. Built in September 1998, the factory involved an investment of €220 million, covering internal installations, production equipment, and the surrounding environment. To enable all visitors to understand and observe every stage of Volkswagen’s manufacturing process, the facility was designed to be entirely transparent and open to public tours.

These two 20‑story, 42‑meter‑tall cylindrical glass car towers can each store 400 brand‑new Volkswagen vehicles. They are connected to an oval‑shaped customer center, where a dedicated elevator system retrieves a vehicle from the 20‑story tower every 40 seconds and delivers it to the customer center.

Visitors can also sit in a glass-enclosed cabin and be whisked to the top, much like in a car. Not only can they closely observe the intricate mechanics of vehicles entering and exiting, but from the tower’s summit, they can take in panoramic views of the entire park—and even the city of Wolfsburg.

These vehicles are all manufactured in Wolfsburg and then transported directly via conveyor belt to the underground parking garages of these two buildings. At the heart of the Transparent Building, robotic arms move cars from the underground garage to the exhibition center on the upper floors at a speed of 2 meters per second.

Now let’s take a look at some other images:

This is a parking lot, not a skyscraper! Fully automated~

Very convenient~

It looks like a repair shop~

It’s parked~

It’s like a science fiction movie.

Feeling dizzy?

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