Since the beginning of the 20th century, automobiles have been shaping cities and architecture, demanding specific spaces to move and be stored.Cars and motorcycles dictated the organization of spaces and the consequent urban and rural landscape of entire countries. However, with the climate crisis and the recognition of the problems that this development model brings to cities and to the planet, every day more initiatives are perceived that seek to eliminate individual and motorized cars powered by fossil fuels, while at the same time we also perceive the need to give new meanings to spaces that were previously dedicated to cars. In addition to the streets and public spaces, this transformation is also felt in the houses and residential buildings that are beginning to see garages as a more dynamic space.
Commonly, the garage is a storage space mainly intended to keep cars and motorcycles stored and protected from the weather. In some places it can share space with maintenance areas, such as heating and hydraulic equipment, or it can also serve as storage for tools and objects that are not accessed in everyday life. In some places the garage can even be used as a home workshop, but in general its use is marginalized and its location is far from the social areas of the house. By re-signifying our relationship with the car, we also remodel the spaces linked to it, which brings new possibilities of use, whether from the permanence of the car and coexistence with other routine needs, or considering its total absence.
