Why This Would Fail in Architecture School
I’m introducing a new bit. It’s called “Why this would FAIL in architecture school”.
Here’s the deal. Studio’s been going great-today I had a critique that went well, not great, but the house I’m designing has some flaws and they were understandably pointed out to me.
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Loft Access by Tamir Addadi Architecture
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November 24th, 2010
London studio Tamir Addadi Architecture have inserted a tiny staircase to access a tiny loft in a London house.
Okay first of all, look at that rise vs run! That looks like 45 degree stairs, whereas 30-35 is generally acceptable. Oh and residential width is .91m for stairs, and generally creating stairs on a turn like that is outside of building codes.
Alright so this is why that happened:
The client asked us to replace the ladder to the loft with permanent stairs in order to improve the connection of the loft to the rest of the house, as he decided to start using it as a study. The main challenge was to design a staircase for the narrow space of 140 cm x 90 cm.
But you would still fall off those stairs. Or a child would.
