While the invention of a lift has brought undisputed significance to the world, the question has remained how vertical transportation is going to develop further. From pyramids to skyscrapers, achieving higher space by the use of technology can be seen as a kind of human nature which accompanies to our civilization since ancient period. In architecture, important buildings are put on platforms, and where the necessary technical skill exists they also tend to be the taller buildings.Living in the sky is not just a dream but can be realized since the advance technology of lifts has been improved. It is certainly true that vertical transportation has affected building methods and living behaviours of human beings for nearly two hundred years. As the Pritzker Prize 2000 winner, Rem Koolhaas mentioned in Delicious New York:
In the era of the staircase all floors above the second were considered unfit for commercial purpose, and all those above the fifth, uninhabitable…the elevator has been the great emancipator of all horizontal surface above the ground floor. (Koolhaas 1978, p.82)
Whether it is New York or Tokyo, the utilization of lifts has made taller dwellings practical all over the world. There has been a rapid increase in high-rise buildings and skyscrapers in the 21st century because of enhanced vertical transit within architecture. Not only has the surface of human habitats been altered to be vertical, forming a concrete city like Manhattan, but the condition of living behaviour has also been influenced dramatically since people can use vertical transportation to reside in higher places. Noticed by Petroski , “the more familiar we become with anything, whether mechanical or not, the more we expect a certain predictable behaviour from it and so adjust our own behaviour accordingly.” As a result, many architects, investors, technicians, sociologists, urban designers have unanswered questions and imagination about the changing environment and human lifestyle which will continue to result from the new mode of a lift device and its many varied applications in the future.
In the era of the staircase all floors above the second were considered unfit for commercial purpose, and all those above the fifth, uninhabitable…the elevator has been the great emancipator of all horizontal surface above the ground floor. (Koolhaas 1978, p.82)
Whether it is New York or Tokyo, the utilization of lifts has made taller dwellings practical all over the world. There has been a rapid increase in high-rise buildings and skyscrapers in the 21st century because of enhanced vertical transit within architecture. Not only has the surface of human habitats been altered to be vertical, forming a concrete city like Manhattan, but the condition of living behaviour has also been influenced dramatically since people can use vertical transportation to reside in higher places. Noticed by Petroski , “the more familiar we become with anything, whether mechanical or not, the more we expect a certain predictable behaviour from it and so adjust our own behaviour accordingly.” As a result, many architects, investors, technicians, sociologists, urban designers have unanswered questions and imagination about the changing environment and human lifestyle which will continue to result from the new mode of a lift device and its many varied applications in the future.
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