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The simple cut-outs are designed to avoid walkers crashing into one another. There are many applications, from underground public transit tunnels, to hallway corners, to street corners.
Essentially, urban planners need to take a slice out of their concrete corner about 5-6 feet from the floor/ground.
You could fill this with glass, put glass on the exterior (in an L-shape), or leave it empty.
But the point is -- you should be able to see someone coming. Mirrors are used in some places, but cut-outs would be easier.
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I like the idea, but I forsee a problem with load-bearing walls. |
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I find that carrying a pitchfork with me -- and sticking it around the corner just before I turn -- works quite well. |
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Construction-wise it seems like it would be easier to use 2 45 degree corners set back an appropriate distance. How deep does the cutout need to be? I suppose that depends on how fast people walk, how fast they react and how rapidly their masses can be decelerated. |
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I guess the easiest explanation is to envision the corner of a wall being constructed out of triangular layers (like flat Lego pieces). You take a few out near the average person's eye level so that a 3-5" gap is created. |
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Q: Well, then why not just cut the wall off and make a rounded corner? |
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A: Well, I don't know. It's half-baked, that's why it's here. Anyway, you could make it a rather large triangle, like a couple feet from the corner on each side, and put a steel rod or something at the corner to assuage load-bearing fears (which are legitimate). |
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Actually, you could use a steel gridwork filled with those 'decorative' glass blocks without too much structural risk, I think... |
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Just have virtual cut-outs. In public places, put plexiglas protected giant monitors on the walls of high-traffic corners (right where you'd like the cut-outs to be) which show the image from around the corner, using an adjacent ceiling-hung camera. |
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why not have a 1" square plexiglass rod that adheres to the corner, then you can see rough images of movement around the forner warning you. |
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or just approach corners at a reasonable velocity and dont sneak around the corner like an Office Ninja, keep a respectable distance of 3-5 feet. |
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or how about electronic eyes at foot level that shows a green light or red light to those around the corner letting them know someone is coming |
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It would also effect the building occupants that need the
space on the inside of their buildings! |
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Monitors are a great idea, but we need to get the prices
down and they need to be much more rugged. ... We have
used traffic lights for many things over the years. They
would work well here too. Just green and yellow, lord
knows we will never stop for anyone else! |
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One could have a strong rectangular piece of glass protruding from the corner. People who advance to quickly will run into the glass. People wo walk at a moderate pace will see the glass and avoid it, and also see the reflection of oncoming people. |
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Each side would have a dry erase marker hanging from it, so people who whack into it from the other side can quickly have a beard and long eyelashes added to the glass (by passing Bad Samaritans) opposite their flattened face. |
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Great idea that could look cool from an architectural design standpoint as well. |
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Surely there's a simpler solution. |
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Corners only happen because two corridors, running in
orthogonal directions, meet one another at the same point. |
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If they met at different points, there would be no problem
and no corner. |
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So if you installed a neutron star behind the walls, would it bend space time enough that you could see round the corner? |
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What you need is a fourth dimension. So the corridors
coincide in the ordinary three spatial dimensions, but not in
the fourth. For example: two people walk along two
intersecting corridors toward the intersection, but don't
collide because one is at 9:00 am and the other at 11:00 am.
If M theory is correct, you can have 8 people converging an 8-
way intersection, and no collision (provided the people are
very small). |
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[mouse] (May I call you that?) We already have a
fourth dimension (probably baked right here), the
very one you named, Time; meaning there is never
a
conflict when people meet at different times. I
know
you know this, I'm just saying.... |
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[Max] has suggested that corridors meeting--that is,
converging--at *different* points might just
alleviate
this whole mess all at once. He might be on (to)
something. |
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//Surely there's a simpler solution.// |
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I was going to post "Look Where You're Bloody Going" as a seperate idea, but it would probably be shot down as advocacy, WKTE, etc. |
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Still, I'd like to suggest the "Look Where You're Bloody Going" philosophy as a possible solution to the perceived issue. |
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//Look Where You're Bloody Going// Inefficient. It's enough
if *you* look where you're going; that way I can reserve my
attention for important Thinking, Cellphone Yapping, Gum-
Chewing, etc. |
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