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I know exactly what you mean by 16 steps split in 8 going two different directions, with the window platform between them. The current block I am living in has
by staircasethrow 4y ago
I know exactly what you mean by 16 steps split in 8 going two different directions, with the window platform between them. The current block I am living in has this setup in Sofia. Built in the 60s with the first steps on the ground floor being 7 instead of 8.
How old are you if I may ask? I am fairly young and have no memory of when anything was built. But I often walk around and try to think of what they were going for and the purpose behind many things. There seems to have been a lot of logic to simple things, like you mentioned with light and ergonomy, it gives a sense of careful design and forethought.
Also I will add, the block started with 3 floors, and then a fourth was added on top of it afterwards, not sure if that was an anomaly or the norm.
- paganel 4y ago> How old are you if I may ask Early 40s, I now live in Bucharest but I grew up in a town besides the Danube, Bulgaria was on the other side. > But I often walk around and try to think of what they were going for and the purpose behind many things There was definitely a "purpose" behind most of the stuff they built back then, especially in the '60s and the '70s (in the '80s things were already getting tougher from an economic pov, so at some point they started cramming apartments building close to apartments building in the name of better use of the land, or something like that). > Also I will add, the block started with 3 floors, and then a fourth was added on top of it afterwards The norm here was ground floor + 4 floors in the small and medium towns, plus in some neighbourhoods of the big cities, including Bucharest, or ground floor + 10 floors in the bigger cities and in Bucharest. There are also buildings with ground floor + 8 floors (I now live in one, on the 8th floor), but they were not the norm.