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It's not just Bobby Fijan, there's also Michael Elias, an architect, who has been trying to build family suitable apartments in the US after experiencing them i
by epistasis 3y ago
It's not just Bobby Fijan, there's also Michael Elias, an architect, who has been trying to build family suitable apartments in the US after experiencing them in Germany.
The problem really is the hallway cutting the building in half. It puts such restrictions on what can be built in sensible ways.
- criddell 3y agoYou could just put a staircase in the middle of the apartment and have two or three levels, no? That's how lots of homes are built, is there some reason reason why some apartments couldn't be like that as well.
- SoftTalker 3y agoYeah I've lived in and visited friends in "townhouse" apartments that are two or three stories, the bedrooms are upstairs and the living space and kitchen downstairs.
- mperham 3y agoThose are called townhomes.
- criddell 3y agoThat’s not the kind of home Fijan or Elias are talking about. Those don’t generally have the problem of the hallway cutting the building in half.
- wolverine876 3y agoYou might mean Michael Eliason, who is part of the OP's organization: https://www.centerforbuilding.org/our-team https://www.centerforbuilding.org/our-team
- epistasis 3y agoOops, two mistakes on my part here, the spelling, and somehow missing that he's in one of the early paragraphs of the linked article... I've been following Eliason's work for a long time so I can't believe his name didn't pop out to me in the article!