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Vertical Parking | Via

The invention and rapid adoption of the automobile at the turn of the 20th century presented an immediate problem: where to park so many vehicles, especially in dense urban areas.

Above-ground and subterranean parking garages allowed multiple levels of vehicle parking, but resulted in footprints with much empty space.

The first foray into space-saving automatic parking systems was the Garage Rue de Ponthieu in Paris, which in 1905 unveiled an internal elevator which could lift cars to different levels to be parked by attendants.

More automated systems followed. One of the most popular was the paternoster system, which lifted and stored vehicles in boxes, much like a Ferris wheel, allowing eight cars to be parked vertically in the footprint space of two cars.

The popularity of automatic parking systems ultimately waned due to the long wait times required for customers to retrieve their cars, but they can still be found in cities worldwide.

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