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I love my apartment. 15 foot ceilings are marvelous thing. Yes,
I love it, but at times I think... what good are such high
ceilings in the bathroom and kitchen? Moreover what good are
they in the hall? No good I say. no good. Divide apartments
vertically. Allow my rooms to stack: lofty in the
living quarters
and higher up compact. Everyone could have more space and
a varied view. Plus bathrooms could be on one floor to save on
service charges too.
smallest house in UK
http://www.phototra...wales-conwy-03.html
so small she cannot fit her chair into it. [po, Oct 04 2004]
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Widely Baked in the real world, even New York. Many apartments and homes are built with double, even triple height living rooms or libraries, and much more vertically challenged bedrooms and kitchens. Witness the apartment in Spiderman (actually one of the penthouses on top of Tudor City). |
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ahem ... What good are high ceilings in the bathroom and kitchen? I'd have to think about that a minute. |
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What you're suggesting, [futurebird], would work nicely with a helical stacking of adjacent units. Some refinement of design would require less change to the buildings' external elevations while giving similar configurations to each stacked floorplan -- an improvement over 'mirror image' and '180 degree juxtaposed' orientations now extensively used to design adjacent units. |
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Liking this a little more: load-bearing walls would have a periodic weakness if the 'honeycomb' of internal bracing were irregular, but I feel that adequate strength gains would be brought on by the rotation of cross bracing from lateral walls to diagonal walls. |
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"...what good are such high ceilings in the bathroom and kitchen?"
The high ceilings in a kitchen are to give you room to adequately toss pancakes. I've drawn a blank on the bathroom, though. |
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This idea is know amongst architects, some easier to find examples of it are in the work of Le Corbusier. A built work of his to look at is the Unité d'Habitation, which needs hallways only every third floor. |
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st3f: sex on a trampoline? |
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