Rietveld Architects New York

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Not a hand-drawn floorplan, but this is the way we had six open stairs in the floorplan, and no enclosed escape stairs. The school wants to encourage the use of stairs...

Almost 15 years ago we were working on plans for the InHolland University to have a new building on top of the roof of the old Ringers Chocolate Factory in Alkmaar. The biggest innovations were the exploded core (no corridors) and the six open stairs configuration (no enclosed escape stairs. A specialty of us, together with Peter van de Leur).