Chances are they don't read the forum.What about criticizing the architect and developers? They are flesh and blood.
Fire stairs are usually built without windows --in my experience so invariably that I believe it's covered by a code provision; when I get in the office tomorrow I'll look it up.I'm willing to give the architect the benefit of the doubt and guess it was forced on them by the developer as a cost saving measure.
Your thoughts?
Chances are they don't read the forum.
The solution to the blank wall problem is to run the stairs internally and wrap them in rooms that have windows.
How bout just covering the blank cement wall with a glass skin similiar to the windows that are already in place. Mount a framework, fill in with glass. They did this with the new Lowe's hotel going up here in Atlanta and it looks great!
the blank cement wall
The solution to the blank wall problem is to run the stairs internally and wrap them in rooms that have windows.
In the days of modernist ideological purity, however, you actually looked for opportunities to run the stairs on the outside of an apartment building; it was referred to as "expressing the function" or "providing a vertical element." (See the buildings of Sert and Rudolph.)
Bruner and Cott are of the generation that was force-fed that dogma in school. I can imagine them doing it automatically.