Engineering Physical Activity And Connection Into Architectural Design
A style of architectural design is emerging that’s aimed at encouraging physical activity and physical inter-personal connection. New York City health commissioner Thomas Farley’s has made a push to make elevators smaller and slower, and Richard J. Jackson, a professor at the University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health concurs:
Increasingly, designers are applying walking-oriented urban-planning ideas to buildings, and some see elevators as the architectural equivalent of the value meal: unhealthy, unsustainable, and bad for social exchange.
In the same spirit, Thom Mayne’s design work for the Cooper Union building features elevators that stop on only three of eight floors, and staircase arrangements that keep departments interconnected.
[via GOOD]
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| TOPICS: | Design & Architecture, Environmental / Green |
| TAGS: | cooper union, physical activity, slow culture, thom mayne |
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