Parking garage

Abstract

Parking garage having at least two parking areas inside said parking garage, each parking area comprising a plurality of parking spaces adjacent to a wall, a wall segment of said wall extending along said plurality of parking spaces, said wall segment having a color pattern comprising at least two contrasting colors, whereby the color patterns of wall segments of different parking areas differ in color and in the pattern of the color patterns.

1 . A parking garage having at least two parking areas inside said parking garage, each parking area comprising a plurality of parking spaces adjacent to a wall, a wall segment of said wall extending along said plurality of parking spaces, said wall segment having a color pattern comprising at least two contrasting colors, whereby the color patterns of wall segments of different parking areas differ in color and in the pattern of the color patterns. 
     
     
         2 . The parking garage according to  claim 1 , wherein said two contrasting colors of a selected wall segment differ at least in hue and in chroma. 
     
     
         3 . The parking garage according to  claim 1  wherein at least 40% of the surface of a wall segment is covered by color having a chroma of at least 20, preferably at least 30, in the CIELab system. 
     
     
         4 . The parking garage according to  claim 1 , comprising a lighting installation capable of illuminating said color patterns. 
     
     
         5 . The parking garage according to  claim 1 , wherein the ceiling above the parking spaces of a selected wall segment has a color pattern corresponding to the color pattern of said selected wall segment. 
     
     
         6 . The parking garage according to  claim 1 , wherein said color pattern comprises letters or words. 
     
     
         7 . The parking garage according to  claim 1 , wherein said color pattern comprises the logo of a company. 
     
     
         8 . The parking garage according to  claim 1 , wherein a first color pattern of a first parking area comprises at least one chromatic color that is essentially absent in a second color pattern of a second parking area, said chromatic color covering at least 10%, preferably at least 20% of the surface area of the wall segment carrying said first color pattern. 
     
     
         9 . The parking garage according to  claim 1 , said parking garage having at least two floors, each floor constituting one parking area. 
     
     
         10 . The parking garage according to  claim 1 , wherein said at least two parking areas are present within one floor of said parking garage. 
     
     
         11 . The parking garage according to  claim 1 , wherein said wall segment having a color pattern comprising at least two contrasting colors, the ratio of the repetition period of said color pattern to the repetition period of the parking spaces adjacent to said wall being 0.25 to 10. 
     
     
         12 . Use of a color pattern in a parking garage as defined in  claim 1  for providing guidance to a user of said parking garage to a vehicle parked by said user.