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[–] railway692@piefed.zip 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Is this a real and stupid, non-functional set of stairs?

Or did someone create a cool/definitely impractical staircase where the second flight is on hinges and you lift it up to access the middle floor?

(Edit: I say this because the second flight looks like it's made of wood and maybe not entirely fixed to the floor.)

[–] cynar@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Things like this are often a protest by the builders against the architect. They spot a problem with the design, try and tell them and get shouted at. They then build it to the design, knowing it's stupid, so the architect has to swallow the cost of fixing it.

[–] railway692@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago

I want to be a fly in the wall for that conversation.

A fly with a bucket of popcorn.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's nice.
Although I don't understand how come an Architects drawing goes straight to a builder without a Civil Engineer in between.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe its was an uncivil engineer who refused to cooperate.

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