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Marie 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 🇸🇬

House owner: I'd like to break both of my legs.
Architect: Say no more.

#stairs #architecture #features

A staircase designed so that you walk down the actual recessed steps with air between each step, making it quite dangerous if you're not careful.
45 comments
yanncphoto

@smlx4 maybe worse than the « half step » stairs, but definitely a good sobriety test !

Rupert Curwen

@smlx4 Architect specified width in inches, metal shop thought it was cm, nobody would answer the builder's call. Just a guess.

Nils Jansen

@smlx4 It looks good. Maybe it's just a starecase!

Extra_Special_Carbon

@smlx4 It’s probably unfinished. Next step is to add the top panel to each step.

JanPV

@smlx4 That would cause 2 years of head-scratching and report writing before rejection from the UK building regulations people.

Well, it would, if the owner actually told them about it (unless it was a new build).

An indemnity when selling a house is about 20 times cheaper than obtaining building regulations approval. And those indemnities are almost never required, anyway.

Stoneface Vimes

@smlx4
How does it contravene building regs
Let me count the ways...

red_rooster :coolified:

@smlx4
Well there are three things (at least in Germany)
1. proprietary right of the architect, so you must not change anything if the architect refuses
2. Standards (DIN, ISO, EN) and legal regulation. if one does no comply it is considered as dangerous and personal savety is higher than other right.
3. If you deploy a star architect for your house there is no symphathy form my side for such problems

Brahms

@red_rooster @smlx4 out of curiosity (also living in germany):

about 1., I have heard a similar argumentation regarding our office design, but lets say I hire an architect for my personal home, why would I be required to use that as is, no matter the copyright? Wouldnt I hire them for a design that is then in my property to use as I see fit, even change?

red_rooster :coolified:

@brahms @smlx4
In the University I studied the #building was early work of a later famous #architect in the style of #brutalism As gray walls are not really motivating the #students wanted to paint the walls and and a professor paid the paint.
There was a lot of trouble and at the end, the paint had to be removed. So much to proprietary right at buildings.
And there are some public buidings where the arcitect did not comply to regulation and then the buildings were closed down.

Brahms

@red_rooster crazy stuff! Thanks for sharing!

Our mentioned office did not have racks planned for towels in the kitchen. So my colleagues apparently bought super cheap plastic ones in spite 🤣 I think they are still in use

red_rooster :coolified:

@brahms
Well, I hope you will visit the fellow-workers that fitted that stuff at the wall in prison when the architect finds out. :blobcatextremejoy:

red_rooster :coolified:

@brahms @smlx4

To #all
Which #University building in #Germany in was designed by a later famous #architect in the #Brutalism style? The building was opened in 1968.

GlennMG

@smlx4
What happens when the question is asked, "What does the staircase wish to be?", and the answer is dramatic in photos and terrifying in use.

Will 🏳️‍🌈

@smlx4 This also brings new meaning to the lyrics of the song "I'm walking on sunshine...".

Badgardener

@smlx4

"I live in a country so backward that we haven't invented sliced bread. Do you have something I can fling loaves at?"

Ross of Ottawa

@smlx4 saw this a few years ago – it's a bit misleading. Shown is merely the metal undercarriage upon which the final big wide wooden treads of the stairs are attached. The final pic is out there somewhere and is fine.
#outrageFarming

Deep Mud

@smlx4 and here we have the *perfect* illustration of the difference between what you *can* do, and what you *should* do

stony kark

@smlx4 who else but the rich can afford this shit anyways? Based architecture

Damon

@smlx4 I hope they will attach treads to that.

Gentleman Programmer

@smlx4 Not an expert but I feel I'd be more likely to break my face than my legs on those "stairs"

Sundew

@smlx4 Instructions unclear; one leg either side of a step, junk crushed to pulp.

acm

@smlx4 honestly, open steps can be just fine, but the combination of narrow faces with no bannister is.... !!!

Matthew Loxton

@smlx4
Is that just a concept, or did someone actually put it into practice?

Marie 🇸🇪 🇦🇺 🇸🇬

@mloxton It’s difficult to determine if this staircase is from a real location or a digitally created/rendered image just from looking at it. The design appears plausible in terms of modern architectural trends, but whether it’s functional or exists in a real space would depend whether the sources found on the net are reliable.

Deka Black

@smlx4 Holybshit. What is this? Some kind of Harkonnen device?

Transdisiplinääriseksi

@smlx4 help, how do i lock my bike on the racks on the left?

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