Sunday, April 15, 2007

025_1/2 automatic


These two escalators are found in a shopping mall. For some strange reasons, in order to get up to or down from the escalators, you need to climb the staircases. I’ve discussed this with my friends and we came up with the following.
1. There is something from the lower floor at that particular location that requires high headroom.
2. The floor-to-floor height is higher than standard minimum length of the cheapest escalator available.
3. Since this is a renovation work, probably they couldn’t hack the existing floor because of some structural reason so there was no room to put the escalator’s motor.
4. The architect thought it’s cool and had never been done before.
5. Wrong purchase of escalator.
Until today we still don’t know the reason behind this.

1 comment:

allzone said...

hahah
love this one!
for me it seems to be a kind of sacastic joke of the architect.