A Parking Garage, or a Multi-Story Car Park is a building, or part of a building that is designed specifically for the purpose of parking automobiles. Typically there are at least several floors or levels for parking to take place on. It is essentially what you would have if you stacked several parking lots on top of one another.
In the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore, the term 'Multi-Story Car Park" is used, but "Parking garage" is a more common term used in North American English. There are other names for this structure, such as Parking Deck and Parkade, but Parking Garage is by far the most common in the area. The term "parking ramp" is also used, most commonly in the upper Midwest, including Wisconsin and Minnesota, but also as far east as Buffalo, New York. Building codes in the United States use the term 'Open parking structure" relating to a structure designed for storing cars. They are created to have openings in the walls which allow filtering of fresh air in order to disperse car exhaust, fire fumes and whatnot.
Parking Garages are designed so that movement between vehicles can be created using interior ramps, exterior ramps, or vehicle lifts or elevators. The actual design of the parking garage depends heavily on where it is located, how many cars it is meant to accommodate, and what sort of land it is built on. For example, parking garages that are built on sloping land typically have split-levels. In recent years, many parking garages have been created from independent buildings dedicated only for that use, which allows for longer floor spans and accommodations for a greater number of cars. Parking garages are also commonly building to serve residential areas like apartment complexes, as well as business complexes. Parking garages can be built next to the building they are meant to accompany, below it as in on the first and sometimes second floor of an apartment complex, or often underground to serve as part of the basement of a building.
Oftentimes parking garages that are meant to serve shopping malls are built adjacent to a multi-story mall in an attempt to create easier access to the various floors of the mall from the various floors of the parking garage. The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota for instance, has two large parking garages that are attached to the building at both the eastern and western ends of the mall
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