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The demand for storage spaces is on the rise, especially in dense capitalist metropolises. People need more and more space to keep the things they don’t need all the time but are too good to throw away. Since garages, cellars or attics are not part of the modern apartment typology and the contemporary working world demands ever increasing flexibility and mobility of its freelancing workers, the question becomes a simple one: where can I put my stuff?
An increasingly popular answer is “self storage”. It’s a service without any service, because basically you have to do everything yourself. Self storage stations are mostly big ugly buildings, purely functionally and completely closed to the outside like a department store, yet stuffed to the seams with secure units ranging from one to 100 square metres in size where your valuables are kept safe from fire, water, wind and thieves. -
It’s already a familiar typology in suburban areas, yet with the growing demand it is slowly creeping into the centres of cities like New York, London, Berlin and Paris.
In Berlin, this trend has taken a new twist in the form of a big pre-fab GDR apartment block which has been turned into self-storage units. So whilst it is hip in the hauptstadt to live in buildings that were originally factory or storage spaces (“loft living”), the buildings that were actually designed for people to live in are now becoming storage spaces. Take that, architects. I (fh)Photos: Philipp Lohöfener
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