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Windows are not just an aesthetic thing. In the US windows are also a required means of egress from a bedroom in case of fire. Technically the requirement is t
by bobthepanda 3y ago
Windows are not just an aesthetic thing.
In the US windows are also a required means of egress from a bedroom in case of fire. Technically the requirement is two means of egress of any type, but in effect this means the door and the window, where someone can be rescued by a fire truck, escape onto a different path, etc.
- dugmartin 3y agoI can imagine internal apartments designed with an open concept kitchen/living room and then a row of bedrooms/bathrooms off the open room. Then you could have an hallway off the back that funneled in natural light and the bedrooms/bathrooms could have windows that opened unto that. That gives you an unimpeded escape path.
- bobthepanda 3y agoThe two means of egress cannot lead into the same path (the hallway) since the point is to provide an alternate escape path.
- selectodude 3y agoHigh rises don’t usually work like that for obvious reasons.
- datahack 3y agoIndeed, but tradition is not necessarily the only way to have safe policies. We have many more advanced escape systems that work incredibly well these days. I’m sure there are alternative escape technologies that don’t involve windows in a skyscraper in 2024.
- bobthepanda 3y agoWindows are the cheapest second form of egress. Punching through a new set of pressurized, fire rated stairwells would be significantly more expensive.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoWait can this be covered by just giving the bedroom two doors? That seems pretty straightforward...?
- bobthepanda 3y agoThe doors need to open into different escape paths, so not the same hallway or front door. The window goes outside.