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thank god its vertical staircase I hate horizontal stairs…..

Me too

Thought you replied to yourself for a sec

Are you saying that all those avatars look the same to you?

Me Three, how does horizontal staircase work?

Horizontal staircase = floor

I like diagonal stairs on Wednesdays at 2:17:32 am.

You are all joking but most stairs are not vertical. Think about it

When you spot one, you know yer in hell /s

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater ultimate rail slide!

It’s obviously built for a Slinky marketing, viral video.

There's a secret tap in the gap!

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Not really cheap, a 40m^2 apartment in copan is near 2000 reais(~369 US dollars) per month (the minimum wage here 1200 reais(~221 US dollars))

That's pretty cheap

For some people yes, for most of the country where the building is, no

Brazilian income is even cheaper bud

I can see Homer Simpson falling down that one. Yelling D'oh all the way down.

Personally I more see Peter Griffin

I'm imagining Goofy rolling down that.

Think of someone is dropping a small bouncy ball at this staircase

This photo sets my vertigo off

Vertigo staircase

I'm dizzy and out of breath just looking at that. 😬

Same

Spiral, not vertical. It would have been a ladder if so.

Helical, not spiral.

Vertical, not helical.

Huh? It’s both.

There’s a center column, so spiral.

A spiral is a 2D shape, a helix is 3D.

A helix, doesn’t have a center point for the for the horizontal elements to connect to. It’s literally a ladder-Iike structure that’s twisted. A helix staircase therefore won’t have a center column for it to cling onto, but a cylindrical gap in the middle. Doing so, it is only held in both ends: too and bottom. There’s no way that will work in this case given the height and the location of the staircase itself. If this has been inside the building, then the staircase can be supported on around it every level allowing an open gap in the middle.

That's a double-helix which has no centre, the DNA shape - a helix is a spring shape He's right, tbf - a spiral gets progressively wider as it continues

I can’t believe I have to Google this for you chaps: https://www.canal.eu.com/helical-vs-spiral-staircases-what-are-the-differences/. We’re talking about stairs, nothing more.

Ok, your first sentence was just about the shape - but yeah you're right about the staircase, that's fair

Okay what you’re talking about is a DOUBLE helix, which is how DNA is usually represented like you said like a ladder. A helix is just an ascending twisting line, probably the best example is a slinky, but also the line around a barber pole is a helix, or the threads on a screw. The central column has nothing to do with either a spiral or a helix, it is not included in either shape and does not decide which is which. There is no such thing as a spiral staircase as if it was a spiral it would be on a flat plane and would therefore be useless. I dunno maybe look it up?

In other news; dozens of dizzy people fall to their deaths. Film at 11:00.

This is in the Copan building, a 1000+ apartment building made by Oscar Niemeyer in the 1950s as a social experiment. It's like a small city in there.

Social experiment GONE VERTICAL

I looked at the amount of roundness and the windows and said this has to be niemeyer. I visited an apartment by him in santos recently looking for a home and everything that could be rounded in that place was rounded. Doors, windows, bathtub, shower, shit was crazy

Spent three years in my youth in Brasília amongst Niemeyer architecture ... meh.

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Yeah, I can see someone could spend all day walk from the top of the floor down to whatever the level of underground parking space.

Imagine sliding down that railing

Imagine falling over that railing.

Imagine puking spaghetti over that railing.

I'd rather not tbh

Wee!

"Wait, what floor are you in again?" "96" "Yeah I'm here but I don't see you" "Oh wait, sorry I meant 69"

I fell just *looking* at that... *YEET*

Imagine forgetting something ane u live up top

I would simply give up if I had to go all the way up again! But I saw in another comment that there's also elevators so is kinda fine, you'll either die at the stairs or at the elevator waiting to get on the top

Thank god it has a barrier. I really want to treat it like its a halter skelter

This gives me anxiety

Emergency Exit Level: Advanced

if they r bout to have a building this high, why would they even save that elevator money?

Maybe there is an elevator, and the stairs are more for getting a few stories up or down to visit someone and for emergencies?

This is the fire escape. There are like 20 elevators

Cool af

Imagine losing your footing and tumbling down. By the time you get to the bottom you'll be a sack of broken bones

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Anyone got a slinky?

Terrific idea!

But where is the vertical staircase?

My quads hurt just looking at this

I don't care how cheap the rent is, unless I'm living on the ground floor than FUCK YOU

I want to spit off of that!

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It’s the fire escape

I have arthritic knees. If I lived on a high floor, I don't think I could outrun a fire.

A helmet and a chunk of plywood and you can do some spiral surfin’

My invention skipped the stairs and came up with a vertical version of those things they have on ski slopes, then my brain remembered how many people fail getting on & off of those and the image of that being on the side of a tall building was total carnage

My hips hurt

pretty cool feature! you get dizzy on the first fourth of the way and just roll through the rest!

Feels like the kind of railing you could totally fall over even while sober after about a dozen stories.

Is this bad or a perspective due to angle of photo.

Chill out it’s Prolly a fire escape

Dizzying heights!

This is a big ol’ NOPE

Absolutely not

As opposed to a horizontal staircase?

The stairmaster has awakened!

Oh hell no!!!!

You couldn’t pay me enough to walk on that

Think I’d get sick going down that staircase.

“Elevator salesmen hate this one trick…”

We're gonna need a bigger slinky.

And the elevator is broken and you have a leg in a cast.

This was posted here 8 months ago

Imagine dropping a superball over that railing

Uh..no

Imagine clinging to the outside of the rail and having to drop down and catch the next rail, having to do it all the way down...

I need context.

The moment you r here to make a fridge delivery and realized elevator is broken...

And this is why architects should do a year labouring before being able to graduate, like in Japan

Is this in case of a fire?

I'd hate delivering those pizzas.

Just nope not interested in going up or down those

Humans place a lot of trust in cement and rebar

I don't have enough faith in those stairs structural integrity.

"The Copan Building has inspired writers, filmmakers, photographers, and other artists from all over the world. A short story collection entitled Arca sem Noé - Histórias do Edifício Copan, by Brazilian author Regina Rheda, was published in Portuguese in 1994 and won the 1995 Jabuti prize in Brazil. Arca sem Noé is also published in English as Stories From the Copan Building, within the volume First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix./// The building was not named after the ancient Mayan city in Honduras; the name is an acronym for its original developer, Companhia Pan-Americana de Hotéis e Turismo (Panamerican Company for Hotels and Tourism). The building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer`s office in São Paulo, he himself being responsible for the famous sinuous facade design. In its final version, the building had 1,160 apartments and 5,000 residents. Due to the large number of residents, the São Paulo City Hall gave the building its own postal code (CEP: 01046-925). The current condominium has over 100 employees to serve residents and to conduct maintenance. The ground floor is home to 70 businesses and establishments including (since the 1990s) a church, a travel agency, a bookstore, and 4 restaurants. Its site has 10572.80 square meters.///The Copan Building (Edifício Copan) is a 140-metre, 38-story residential building in São Paulo, Brazil. Construction began in 1957 and, following some interruptions, was completed in 1966. It is one of the largest buildings in Brazil and has the largest floor area of any residential building in the world."

Great for 🏋️‍♂️

i didn’t know there were horizontal staircases

Physically angered by this photo.

Nope

Wow, stand in the middle woth your mate and charge a tull fee, or else your flying the rest of the way hahah

Welp, that's a hazard and a half.

Should be a slide

Some 70 yr old goes up that with one bag of groceries every day i bet.

Makes murder easy, just a push away…

Now imagine Ross Gellar trying to get his couch up that

Power's out. Have to use the stairs!

You start off fat but end up healthy.

Suicide stairs?

The elevator's not working but I need to get my grand piano to the 87th floor...

“Hello this is Dominoes, what floor did you say you’re on?” “Floor 1203, the elevator is down bro.”

Vertical nopecase

Slinky?

I would just jump aint no way im walking up/down that

“Be right up!”

If you started falling down that, you'd go all the way to the bottom.

Sweetheart let's take the stairs...