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Project DORO, a concept that uses street lamps as parking lots

Many car concepts of the future focus only on moving. DORO also tackles the problem of parking, and very creatively!

April 22 2022
Gianluca RiccioGianluca Riccio
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Car manufacturers have a natural tendency to focus on what the cars of the future will look like. They often emphasize the convenience of self-driving vehicles to reassure customers that today's problems won't happen tomorrow, or at least hopefully. However, the vehicles will not always be in transit. The concepts focus on the moving part (the last one I talked about it particularly does), and few face the problem of parking.

Bad, because a future perspective on mobility must consider the entire ecosystem: this is why I find Project DORO, a design concept by the Korean designer, interesting. Park Changwoong which offers a new perspective on the problem. Almost utopian, I would add.

Lampposts as parking lots

The concept focuses primarily on street lamps: according to the designer they are one of the most inefficient and underused elements. I disagree on this: even today they can be used to collect environmental data, they host security cameras. Of course, more could be done. DORO, however, goes much further, imagining to use the spaces occupied by the street lamps as vertical parking lots.

And to do this, it contemplates a (rather complex) system that involves practically all the elements of mobility.

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The platform

golden parking
The platforms detach from the cabins to move more vehicles

There is a base platform, which contains wheels and motor. A hypothesized system too by Renault e from Citroen for the cars of the future: it will be able to detach itself from the cockpit, or allow you to change cabins according to the things we want to do while we are on the road.

Once you have left a cockpit on the lamp post parking lots, the platform can restart by hooking up to another. The potential number of "complete" cars on the road can be greatly reduced.

The cabin

detail of the cabin
detail of the cabin
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detail of a cabin 2

The cabin that acts as a cockpit is an interesting design exercise: once again, as I have often found in other concepts, the forecast is to interiors similar to those of rooms. The materials are also "residential", including wood and fabrics. Virtually there is glass everywhere, which produces an extraordinarily wide view of the surrounding environment (hopefully one-way, when needed, for passenger privacy).

The parking lamps

parking hooking system
hooking system to parking lamps
cabins such as mini hostels or outdoor parking areas
cabins like mini hostels or dehors

Let's come to the strong point of Project DORO: the street lamps. They are a real housing for the cabins. The glance is more dystopian than ever: suddenly all the roads are clear, no cars parked on the edges. They are all suspended in the air. And they can also perform different functions: imagine going to a pub and eating in one of these suspended cabins, and then having you take you home directly.

What to say: a rather ambitious vision: it presupposes a future that adopts a completely different network from the current one. A network made up of platforms, cabins and street lamps, of course.

In any case, as we often observe, the concepts serve to open the mind and see different possible points of reality: I appreciate that there are "visionaries" also concerned with parking.

After all, everyone's dream is not to always see all these cars everywhere, right?

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