{"id":926,"date":"2013-04-16T18:42:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T18:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/?p=926"},"modified":"2013-04-20T00:22:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T00:22:40","slug":"design-and-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"Design and exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bullitt Center Staircase<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An article with a catchy title, Office Building encourages exercise by creating more appealing stairways<\/a>, from PSFK talks about the Bullitt Center, a carbon neutral office building being built in Seattle.\u00a0 Inculded in the latest energy and sustainability innovations is making the stairs attractive so people will use them.\u00a0 They are spacious, with plenty of light.\u00a0 A modern design that harks back to the days before elevators when stairs were more than just means of egress.<\/p>\n

While article places this within the context of the well being of the building’s users, I am more struck about about the relationship between design and exercise.\u00a0 How many of the labor saving devices we have grown accustomed to, reduce the amount of exercise we do on a daily basis, much to the detriment of our own health.\u00a0 Sure, this frees us to choose the type of exercise we might prefer doing, but than we often pay twice.\u00a0 Once for the labor saving elements and another to the gym to make up for it.\u00a0 It turns out climbing stairs is great exercise.<\/p>\n

I am all for nicer stairs in buildings and encouraging people to use them.\u00a0 There are a number of elements that make this difficult.\u00a0 They are often placed with only egress in mind so are not located in easy to use places.\u00a0 They often don’t have natural light and are often utilitarian in design.\u00a0 Nothing says things aren’t important than no attention to detail. Security often makes them inconvenient.\u00a0 You can enter them, but can necessarily get out at the floor you want.<\/p>\n

In the an example of practicing what I preach, we moved our fridge down into the basement of our house a number of years ago (although, admittedly, is was because we were annoyed by the noise).\u00a0 However, climbing the stairs has helped keep us fit.\u00a0 For those you are into serious training and work in a tall building, you can combine work and exercise with this routine<\/a>.\u00a0 It would be even better in a nicer stair.\u00a0 Who needs the gym?<\/p>\n

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