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Originally Posted by youngregina
well if you look at the diagram, it shows that the building is open almost all the way to the bottom level, allowing for sunlight to reach the depths of the structure.
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I'll get back with you on that when I move to my new office where my desk faces a fairly large light court. Big and open, I'll be able to see the sky, but something tells me staring across at the next set of windows will get old fast.
So what if it has sunlight shining down. The monotony of looking left, right, across, down and up and seeing nothing but the same windows all around would be terrible. There's a way to design this to be better, but involves making a large canyon and completely cutting out the repetition.
Thought it's a concept, and concepts don't have to be specific, it should at least provide a general answer to the big questions like life safety. Can you imagine going UP in the event of a fire? You'd exhaust population of this thing trying to escape going up long stairways only eventually to stop and block crowds below. What about heat from a fire? Would a large enough atrium dissipate enough heat, or would it just remain trapped and burn all the occupants?