SCADpads: A Parking Garage Transformed into a Mirco Village

As city populations boom urban planners are pressured to seek out innovative ways to squeeze more people into less space.

The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) recently transformed the top covered-floor of a parking garage in Midtown Atlanta, into three 12.5 square metre mircohomes or SCADPads as they are calling them.

"If you look at where parking garages are located in cities, they're usually centrally located; There are usually many, many floors, so they provide an amazing view," explains Scott Boylston, SCAD's program coordinator for design for sustainability. "It really transforms the way we see neighborhoods. The idea that the garage becomes a village — a community."

Boylston says the project is about "re-imagining urban living," so there's also a grey water garden, two common areas with seats and outdoor heaters, and even a 3D printer.

For more information see the SCADPads' website.