Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Car park 2.0

Final Sketch - Details and Rationale of Concept

Car park 2.0

After doing research, we found out the main problems people face in car parks are finding parking lots, as well as finding their cars. Our concept is built to tackle these problems in a creative and fun way. We chose a car park, Suntec City Mall’s car park to improve. What we wanted to do was to create a solution that was interesting, fun and easy to understand.


















We came up with this solution, to divide the car park into sections (continents), and then further divide the sections by the use of animals, animals that are distinctive with the continent they live on.

This way, the user would be able to remember which continent they parked at, to know which general direction to head, and even more specifically to the distinctive animal of that continent. This would better enable them to remember where they parked their car.

It could also be fun and educational for children as they would be able to learn which animal comes from which continent, it could be a fun activity for the whole family.











This is what a section might look like, this is the continent of Africa, and it is separated into the Rhino, Lion and Gazelle sections.

On each pillar the animals will face in the direction of the lift lobby to indicate where it is.


This is to better enable the user to find the nearest lift lobby.















The parking lots will also be numbered in an easier way to remember, for example, the lion section would be labelled L, for lion. The pillars will indicate the continent, animal, as well as the parking lot numbers in that area.

This would allow the user to remember the parking lot number as well as find it a lot easier as it would not just be a bunch of numbers, but something that makes sense.

On the walls there will also be indications as to where the next section is, for example the lion is chasing the llama, indicating which direction to head if you wanted to find the South America section.

This would make it an easy yet fun and interesting way for the user to find out which section is where.

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