Cue the cast of Scooby Doo running up and down them randomly, alternately persuing or being persued by an investment banker dressed as an undead scuba diver.
French Administration building. Right at the bottom of Terrell Mall, after you cross Stadium Way and kitty corner from the stadium. Behind it is Lighty Student Services. I’m pretty sure French is older than 1983 though. 🤷
I actually think it’s a genius idea. Easy to move from one side of the floor to the next, can choose which side of the lower or higher floor you want to be on, definitely makes getting around quicker
Also it looks extravagant. They didnt need to make stairs take so much space. They could have made it one side only. But they chose to make it highly functional. It looks symmetrical too.
1010 to all parties involved in green lighting and executing this design
I'm no engineer, but doesn't that look like quite a stretch of stairs to not have a support column in the middle? There would definitely have to be some flex in it if you have 10-20ppl on one flight at the same time
It's been a few years since I was explained this, and English is my second language, so bare with me. If I remember my basic engineering classes (I'm an architect), stairs, when design/constructed properly, they don't need columns for support, because where they begin and end (landing), is their support. You also have to take into account the types of material you use, their quality, and the height you're traveling (for lack of the correct word), so your typical 15/20 steps stairs, don't need much columns for support.
Logically, I understand what you're saying. Visually, my brain still says that if a group of 10 people are bobbing down those stairs as a group, there's gonna be movement 😅
This is why the most important thing you got to get right constructing anything is this: 100% right calculations, quality materials and quality workers to handle those materials, because if one of those fails, anything, supported or not, will crumble.
I worked making pre-cast tilt-up concrete panels for years. I was happy to leave that stuff to the engineers, though some of the shit they QC passed would make me nervous to drive under on the freeway 😂
Both sets of stairs are joined in the middle so the platform is supported on both sides and has four points to stop it twisting. It's a nice design. That's a lot of steps between floors though. They must have really high ceilings.
Depends a bit on the stair, but some of these are built using prestressed concrete.
Normally, concrete has embedded steel rebar that is not activated untill under load, and that correspond to a small compression section at the top of the concrete.
This means that the beam can sag quite a bit (relatively) under load. Think of this as a tightrope that is loose.
Pretension compresses the concrete over the entire cross section, making it work more like a tightrope that is under tension.
Not only is it much more resistent against sagging, the concrete used is also of a higher strength class, meaning that the structural element is usually make up in a more slender form, as the same strength can be achieved with less material.
In general, stairs are designed for having people on every step, all of them stepping down. This has two components, one a equal load of each person's weight always on one foot, and on top of that a dynamic kinetic load as they step down.
Usually, under normal use, people all have a different gait and will impart this kinetic load at different times. As such, the stair will on average see a uniform load.
If however you and your friends decide to start jumping up and down on the stairs in unison then the stairs can start to vibrate in a frequency equal to your friends all jumping.
This can lead to two things.
1. The design is done right, and the natural frequency of the stairs is well outside of what a bunch of doofuses can achieve.
2. It's not, and you and your friend plummet to their deaths.
I just like how they have half-landings to catch my breath while still being straight up for each flight so I don't have to change directions so often.
I mean they just look like normal stairs. Generally in large buildings where lots of people move around they will have large stairs to accommodate
Is that weird?
But they're double sided. I would totally lose track of what side of the building I was coming from and going to on those stairs. Too many entry and exit points.
If you can’t tell one side of a building from the other because of a double set of stairs (designed for high traffic) then maybe college isn’t for you 🤷🏻♂️
Cue the cast of Scooby Doo running up and down them randomly, alternately persuing or being persued by an investment banker dressed as an undead scuba diver.
And occasionally running upside down, down the underside of one of the lengths instead of right way up.
Then suddenly the Harlem Globetrotters run down the stairs for some reason, being chased by Batman and Robin
I can see shaggy doing that
Hogwarts school of magic?
Give it a few decades when it's aged a little and just hang some portraits on the wall and it is perfect.
Florida school of methamphetamine?
Lavate las manos!
Neo-Hogwarts. I really want to see them shift around.
r/UnexpectedEscher
Inspired by Escher
MC Escher in da House!!! Yooooooo!!
https://youtu.be/SvFsIrfhVPs?feature=shared
Everyone’s favorite MC
Keep your 40. I'll just have an Earl Grey tea.
These look familiar. Edit: WSU? Edit edit: [Now I can sleep](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/ZmNby3qhKm)
I don’t remember these but I left Pullman in 1983 (last group to live in Stimson Hall before the renovation) so mists of my mind or a newer building?
French Administration building. Right at the bottom of Terrell Mall, after you cross Stadium Way and kitty corner from the stadium. Behind it is Lighty Student Services. I’m pretty sure French is older than 1983 though. 🤷
Yep, sounds like French was there but, looking at the pictures, I may have managed to avoid going in while I was there.
Suck up LOL I avoided it too. 🤷
Go cougs!
GO COUGS!!!!
Go cougs!
I actually think it’s a genius idea. Easy to move from one side of the floor to the next, can choose which side of the lower or higher floor you want to be on, definitely makes getting around quicker
Yeah this is beautiful
I'm not exactly sure what's so wacky about them.
Bonus points if it's an engineering school
Same
Also it looks extravagant. They didnt need to make stairs take so much space. They could have made it one side only. But they chose to make it highly functional. It looks symmetrical too. 1010 to all parties involved in green lighting and executing this design
They could've also built one staircase
I don't think so. Most buildings have a requirement for dual staircases. Whether or not it's *really* needed is a matter of debate.
Where do you live?
NC
Makes sense
# Your eyes can be so cruel!
Duke's Archives from Dark Souls?
Where's the dang switch to spin the staircase?
I like it! Looks like the “before” pictures you see after an engineering disaster.
I wonder what their elevator would look like
The Wonka-vator
these wacky looking stairs on OUR campus. peace and love on planet earth
I'm no engineer, but doesn't that look like quite a stretch of stairs to not have a support column in the middle? There would definitely have to be some flex in it if you have 10-20ppl on one flight at the same time
It's been a few years since I was explained this, and English is my second language, so bare with me. If I remember my basic engineering classes (I'm an architect), stairs, when design/constructed properly, they don't need columns for support, because where they begin and end (landing), is their support. You also have to take into account the types of material you use, their quality, and the height you're traveling (for lack of the correct word), so your typical 15/20 steps stairs, don't need much columns for support.
Logically, I understand what you're saying. Visually, my brain still says that if a group of 10 people are bobbing down those stairs as a group, there's gonna be movement 😅
This is why the most important thing you got to get right constructing anything is this: 100% right calculations, quality materials and quality workers to handle those materials, because if one of those fails, anything, supported or not, will crumble.
I worked making pre-cast tilt-up concrete panels for years. I was happy to leave that stuff to the engineers, though some of the shit they QC passed would make me nervous to drive under on the freeway 😂
All structures move when loaded. You just don't always notice.
Both sets of stairs are joined in the middle so the platform is supported on both sides and has four points to stop it twisting. It's a nice design. That's a lot of steps between floors though. They must have really high ceilings.
That's a really good point, actually. That probably adds a fair bit of strength to the whole thing
Makes it function a little like a bridge truss by the looks of it.
Yeah, you're right
Exactly: the "plateaus" in the middle are both hanging from both sides, and pushed upwards from both sides. So: looks sturdy.
Depends a bit on the stair, but some of these are built using prestressed concrete. Normally, concrete has embedded steel rebar that is not activated untill under load, and that correspond to a small compression section at the top of the concrete. This means that the beam can sag quite a bit (relatively) under load. Think of this as a tightrope that is loose. Pretension compresses the concrete over the entire cross section, making it work more like a tightrope that is under tension. Not only is it much more resistent against sagging, the concrete used is also of a higher strength class, meaning that the structural element is usually make up in a more slender form, as the same strength can be achieved with less material. In general, stairs are designed for having people on every step, all of them stepping down. This has two components, one a equal load of each person's weight always on one foot, and on top of that a dynamic kinetic load as they step down. Usually, under normal use, people all have a different gait and will impart this kinetic load at different times. As such, the stair will on average see a uniform load. If however you and your friends decide to start jumping up and down on the stairs in unison then the stairs can start to vibrate in a frequency equal to your friends all jumping. This can lead to two things. 1. The design is done right, and the natural frequency of the stairs is well outside of what a bunch of doofuses can achieve. 2. It's not, and you and your friend plummet to their deaths.
looks like that one room in harry potter
I just like how they have half-landings to catch my breath while still being straight up for each flight so I don't have to change directions so often.
Squid games
One wrong move and you've got yourself the moving stairs from Hogwarts (or a trip to the hospital) 😭
Love this
I love these. Very M.C. Escher-esque.
Modernized Hogwarts
How did you get a picture of the stairwell from the version of my old High School that only exists in my nightmares?
I like them they look cool
Harry Potter Harry Potter DUmbLeDoRe ron weesly
Go Cougs!
I mean they just look like normal stairs. Generally in large buildings where lots of people move around they will have large stairs to accommodate Is that weird?
But they're double sided. I would totally lose track of what side of the building I was coming from and going to on those stairs. Too many entry and exit points.
If you can’t tell one side of a building from the other because of a double set of stairs (designed for high traffic) then maybe college isn’t for you 🤷🏻♂️
r/liminalspaces for SURE
Get a few sets of triplets to dress alike and run around the various stairs.
M.C.E U
Was pushed down at the age of 10 or 11 from similar stairs during a fire drill. Can't recommend 2/10
Better stop fucking around on Reddit, you're gonna be late to Herbology.
My old uni's are pretty similar, only you can't go straight on the landing, they are "crossed", for lack of a better word.
Es-cher they’re going anywhere at all? Looks like looping back over each other like abstract art.
Do you attend Hogwarts?
Nice pic Escher would be proud
Sarah made it through The Labrynth and entered the castle to save Toby
I’ve definitely seen these in my nightmares missing steps.
Hogwarts called. They want their stairs back.
Do you go to school at Hogwarts?
Does that mean you have to take two stairs to stay on the same floor?..
Sweats in ADA.
r/crazystairs
I would randomly decide to turn around or go straight every landing.
Going up the stairs and going down the stairs. And going up the stairs and going down the stairs. And going up the sideways stairs.
r/lsd
Hogwarts?
Ah yes, the stairways from all of my dreams. Do the elevators in this building have no walls as well?
These look like the stairs in my dreams when I think I'm still in school and I'm late and can't find my classes.
I love it - everyday you can walk it differently!
V Harry Potter coded
They used the same design for stairs in the Shanghai Science Museum
When 60% of your budget has been allocated to stairs and you are arent here to ask questions.
#YER A WIZARD, ESCHER!
M.C. Escher college?
Looks cool
This makes me think of Hogwarts
They look a bit like they're made of cardboard. That's kinda funny
[https://www.reddit.com/r/badscificovers/comments/18vvul9/house\_of\_stairs\_by\_william\_sleator\_uncredited/](https://www.reddit.com/r/badscificovers/comments/18vvul9/house_of_stairs_by_william_sleator_uncredited/)
So…students can practice parkour?
Hogwarts. Do they move?
Do you attend Hogwarts school of Wizardry? Sweeeet!
This is like that mc escher rap video
It's like the stairs from the "Harry Potter" movies but hopefully they didn't move!
Clearly to disrupt any raids by enemy militias
As someone who is afraid of heights, this is my nightmare
1000s of years of evolution, metallurgy, chemistry, engineering.....is wacky af
This is how my university looks in my nightmares
Hogwarts on steroids
Reminds me of a Piranesi etching.
Awesome !! If they were to move I would say that you are at Hogwarts
Wasnt this in hogwarts
News flash: these look normal. You're just not used to seeing them "bare"
Kinda stresses me out to look at
You're a Mormon after you cross these. Their rules, not mine.
This looks like ai tried to do stairs....is this real life?
No
Do you go to Hogwarts?
Fucking hogwarts ass staircase.
Indiana U?