Timeline for What architectural tricks can I use to add a hidden floor to a building?
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| Jan 3, 2021 at 8:44 | comment | added | DJohnM | Going way back, a local THRUSH headquarters (Man From Uncle) was located on the 13th floor of of an office tower | |
| Jan 2, 2021 at 22:15 | comment | added | WoJ | if OP's organization lives in France, the mess with floor naming is even more impressive that off-by_one counting. We have rez de chausée (at the street level), rez de jardin (one level above the previous one, but it also is ground level, on the other side of the building) and then floor 1, 2 etc. Sometimes one of the two firs ones is missing. | |
| Jan 2, 2021 at 14:51 | vote | accept | Joe Bloggs | ||
| Jan 2, 2021 at 12:45 | comment | added | Llewellyn | I love the idea of lots of secret societies cramming into every 2nd floor of the same building. snerk Hilarity ensues. | |
| Jan 2, 2021 at 4:56 | comment | added | Kevin Kostlan | Messing with elevator number timings and speeds in just thre right way may could make it hard to the passengers to "feel" the missing 13th floor. | |
| Jan 1, 2021 at 23:19 | comment | added | Pingcode | On the 13th floor front, it gets more chaotic when you introduce other lucky (and unlucky) numbers; in Chinese culture 8 is lucky and 4 is unlucky, so you can easily get floor numbers like 1,2,3,5,80,81,82,88 for an 8 storey building | |
| Jan 1, 2021 at 8:34 | comment | added | Mazura | "Stairwell doors can only be locked on every fourth level." "Doors not allowing re-entry must include signage on the stair side indicating the location of the nearest door, in each direction of travel, which allows re-entry or exit." - you could always bride the AHJ, but if I'm standing on the landing for floor 13, I know it's there, also because the sign says 14 is above me and 12 is below. Lessons from a High Rise Fire securitymagazine.com | |
| Jan 1, 2021 at 8:15 | comment | added | Separatrix | @Mazura lock the stairs, they're only for emergency use | |
| Jan 1, 2021 at 5:15 | comment | added | Mazura | Inside this building there is a level where no elevator can go, and no stair can reach. - how do you make it that the staircase from 12 isn't two stories down from 14? | |
| Dec 31, 2020 at 21:37 | comment | added | user1937198 | You can also help with the off by one error by building on steeply sloped ground and defining the ground floor from somewhere at a different height from the main entrance. Depending on the local geography you could potentially have the main entrance on the 2nd or 3rd floor. | |
| Dec 31, 2020 at 16:59 | comment | added | John | High celling offices are becoming more and more common as people realize they have phycological and productivity benefits. | |
| Dec 31, 2020 at 12:55 | comment | added | SRM | I’ve seen double sun-basements get natural light by use of mirrors and lenses. It’s amazing what enough money will buy in architecture. I was 30ft underground and couldn’t tell it wasn’t a direct skylight. | |
| Dec 31, 2020 at 11:33 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | Lecture halls, cinemas, theatres... all can house Secret Societies. That’s genius. Given that this is kind of a parody world and many of my secret societies have members/infiltrators/double-triple-pentuple-crossers in them it would make perfect sense to have a secret society headquarters society that just rents out hidden spaces in cinema complexes, providing many opportunities for hilarity to ensue. | |
| Dec 31, 2020 at 11:27 | comment | added | John Dvorak | Floor 13 is a clever idea. Refuge in audacity. And a little bit of foreshadowing that the secret organization is a little bit evil. | |
| Dec 31, 2020 at 11:24 | history | answered | Separatrix | CC BY-SA 4.0 |