Building with Segmented Vehicle and Pedestrian Pathways
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing apartment house designs with elevator-based vehicle transportation systems cause congestion during commuting hours and complicate maintenance, increasing management burdens.
Innovation Solution
A building design featuring separate elevated vehicle and pedestrian pathways within the building structure, allowing residents to enter and exit their vehicles without leaving their housing units, while maintaining safety and convenience by keeping the pathways at different heights and preventing direct vehicle-pedestrian interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If vehicles are transported using an elevator to a parking facility adjacent to a residential area, then vehicles can be parked near residences, but congestion is caused during commuting hours and maintenance becomes complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The building is divided into separate functional zones with distinct vehicle and pedestrian access paths. The housing part includes a residential space part and a housing-part parking part, with separate entrance/exit parts for residents and vehicles. This segmentation eliminates the need for complex elevator systems while preventing congestion by allowing simultaneous independent access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces vertical separation by providing a housing part-side vehicle road part and a housing part-side pedestrian road part at different heights on the same floor. This three-dimensional arrangement allows vehicles and pedestrians to move independently without conflict, eliminating congestion issues while simplifying the overall system.
2Productivity
If vehicles and pedestrians share the same access paths in a building, then space utilization is efficient, but safety is compromised due to potential accidents
Solution Approach 1:
The access system is segmented into completely separate vehicle and pedestrian pathways. The housing part-side vehicle road part is exclusively for vehicle movement, while the housing part-side pedestrian road part is exclusively for resident movement. This physical separation eliminates safety risks from vehicle-pedestrian interactions while maintaining efficient space utilization through vertical integration.
Solution Approach 2:
By positioning vehicle and pedestrian road parts at different heights, the patent creates vertical separation that maintains safety while preserving horizontal space efficiency. Residents can access their vehicles directly from their housing parts without encountering pedestrians, eliminating accident risks while keeping the building footprint compact.
3Reliability
If vehicle and pedestrian road parts are completely isolated in separate tunnel structures, then safety is enhanced, but a sense of closedness is created
Solution Approach 1:
The patent resolves the closedness issue by using vertical separation instead of horizontal enclosure. The vehicle road part and pedestrian road part are at different heights but both face the same external space, allowing natural light and air circulation. This maintains the safety benefits of separation while preserving visual connection to the outside environment.
Solution Approach 2:
Different parts of the building are given different functional qualities - the vehicle road part is designed for vehicle access with appropriate height and clearance, while the pedestrian road part is designed for resident movement with railings and landscaping. Both parts maintain visual connection to the external environment through their respective facades, preventing the closed-in feeling.
4Ease of manufacture
If parking spaces are disposed adjacently outside the building or in concentrated lower layers, then construction is simple, but residents must exit the building to access their vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The housing-part parking part is nested within each housing part, with the parking space contained inside the residential unit's footprint. The parking part is accessible through a dedicated parking entrance/exit part that opens to the housing part-side vehicle road part, allowing residents to access their vehicles directly from their housing parts without exiting the building.
Data Source
AI summary
To provide a building for an apartment house that allows a vehicle to be parked adjacent to a residential part efficiently. A building includes: a plurality of housing parts formed on one floor of a building body, in each of which a resident H resides, and each including two or more residential floors and including a resident entrance part that allows entry and exit of the resident H and a service entrance part disposed on a residential floor that is different from the residential floor on which the resident entrance part is disposed; a housing-part parking part that communicates with the service entrance part of each housing part, the housing-part parking part being disposed adjacent to the housing part to enable a vehicle C.