Type7 Builds the Garage as the Collection's Final Room

The caption reads: "For a long time, my cars were stored in commercial facilities, or worse, the underground parking bays at my office or apartment building, which never felt right. Cars like these deserve a space and a setting that does them justice." That is the brief. Type7, the luxury automotive lifestyle company, built the answer. The result is documented across 16 images that show what happens when a collector stops treating storage as infrastructure and starts treating it as architecture. ## The Problem With Commercial Facilities A commercial storage facility is designed for throughput, not curation. Concrete floors under fluorescent tubes. Humidity control absent. Climate management minimal. Security adequate, not exceptional. For a standard automobile, this is fine. For a collector whose vehicles represent decades of acquisition, maintenance, and in some cases significant financial appreciation, it is a misalignment between object value and environmental quality that the owner quoted above experienced as wrong every time he visited. Type7's position in the market is exactly this gap between what commercial facilities offer and what significant collections require. The company operates at the intersection of automotive passion, interior design, and hospitality, building spaces that feel like museum-quality environments rather than parking structures. ## What the 16 Images Show The space documented here uses layered lighting. Not a single overhead source but multiple directional elements designed to model the vehicle forms from different angles simultaneously, the same logic a sculptor uses when positioning lights in a studio to understand the three-dimensional surface of a work in progress. The floor appears to be a high-performance coating in a neutral tone chosen to reflect light upward rather than absorb it. The cabinetry is built-in, hidden, and furniture-quality. There are no visible hoses, no equipment left in frames, no visible infrastructure at all beyond the cars themselves and the surfaces built to hold them. This level of concealment is expensive. It requires planning during the construction phase, not as a retrofit. The collector who had cars in underground parking bays is now looking at a room that would read credibly as a residential gallery if the cars were replaced with sculpture. ## The Design Decision That Matters Most The most consequential design decision in a space like this is not the lighting or the floor coating. It is the decision to build it at all, and to build it at a standard that requires the rest of the collector's life to rise to meet it. A room this serious about its contents creates a social pressure toward the collection itself: objects stored in this environment take on a different weight because the environment communicates that they were worth building a room for. That is Type7's actual product. Not storage. Not vehicle care. But the signal that the collection is serious enough to justify architectural intention. The collector quoted in the caption understood that something was wrong in the underground parking bay. What Type7 gave him was the evidence that he was right to have noticed.