Threshold and transition
Carport
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It is the roofed space, open or closed, where the car is kept next to the house or inside it.
Solves
What it solves
It protects the vehicle from sun and rain and gives a covered arrival to the house. In exchange it usually takes up the front of the lot and cuts the sidewalk with its driveway.
Today
Give it just the right width, a floor that lets water soak in and a circuit planned for charging an electric vehicle. Design it so it can become a room, a workshop or a shop if the car is no longer there.
Common mistake
Placing the carport at the front of each house with a solid gate, which cuts the sidewalk and leaves the facade without windows toward the street.
Tomorrow
With less dependence on the car, the carport can become a workshop, a business or another dwelling. It is best designed now with ventilation, light and a door that allows that change.
Where it comes from
- 1Urban mansion Paris, France, 1642
The carriage entrance of the Hôtel Hesselin allowed people to get in and out of the coach sheltered from the rain. - 2First automobiles England and Germany, 1899 to 1903
The first houses for the automobile appear. The word garage comes from the French garer, to shelter. - 3Usonian house Madison, United States, 1936
Frank Lloyd Wright used an open roof for the car at the Jacobs House and is credited with the name carport.
Masters
- Le Corbusier Villa Savoye, Poissy, France, 1931
He traces the glass curve of the ground floor following the turn of a car that drops off its passengers and continues to the garage. He integrates the car into the design of the house from the start.
See also
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