Car sharing services, electric vehicles and autonomous driving are reshaping the automobile industry. These advancements, focus mainly on vehicle innovation and its accompanying policies, neglecting consideration for how our built environment will accommodate these future develop-ments. This automotive transition will render its supporting infrastructure obsolete. Entities such as parking garages, car dealerships and auto-repair shops will need to transform and adapt to meet the demands of this evolv-ing industry. The methods of adaptive reuse, can provide responsive and considerate solutions, to keep such facilities relevant.

One type of architecture that is affected most by this transition, is the gas station.