A new residential quarter with 871 housing units, commercial units and a daycare center is currently being built on a former company site in the southwest of Ludwigshafen, Germany. Sustainability and mobility are the focus of this project. The district heating supply and green roofs contribute to the former, while the innovative mobility concept with more than 600 bicycle parking spaces, a cargo bike rental service and an underground parking garage with 236 spaces, half of which are reserved for electric vehicles, contributes to the latter.
In order to provide many parking spaces in a small area, 215 of the parking spaces were planned as semi-automatic parking systems with three parking spaces one above the other. The middle level can move both horizontally and vertically, while the other two levels move vertically to allow the required vehicle to be parked in or out through the gateway.
Several challenges were faced while planning the fire protection system of the underground car park, on the one hand the moving elements of the parking system, and on the other the high number of electric vehicles, which pose an increased risk in the event of a fire incident. FOGTEC developed an innovative protection concept with a high-pressure water mist fire suppression system that is both compatible with the parking system and provides effective risk protection. It is being used in this project for the first time.
The construction of the whole project began in the fall of 2022, and it should be completed by the end of 2025.