{"id":175,"date":"2011-09-09T03:13:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T03:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agustinjimenez.net\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2011-09-09T03:13:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T03:13:01","slug":"designed-chaos-in-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agustinjimenez.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/designed-chaos-in-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Designed chaos in architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agustinjimenez.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Organized-chaos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176\" title=\"Organized-chaos\" src=\"http:\/\/agustinjimenez.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Organized-chaos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"994\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"http:\/\/agustinjimenez.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Organized-chaos.jpg 994w, http:\/\/agustinjimenez.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Organized-chaos-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 994px) 100vw, 994px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken for granted that order makes our life easier. And it&#8217;s also better known that shopping malls are created so that you have to walk a little bit to come across shops while you seek for the next escalators.<\/p>\n<p>What really surprised me was to know that some malls are designed to get us completely lost. They talk about it in <em><a title=\"The secret life of buildings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/the-secret-life-of-buildings\">The secret life of buildings<\/a><\/em>, a great series that face how building&#8217;s shape affect us. Since watching it, I&#8217;ve been quite obsessed \u00a0analyzing path routes in every shopping mall I visit. It turns up to be kind of fun to discover every trick that architects have planned to makes us walk along the building:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Escalators that drives you not just one floor, but accidentally\u00a0two or even more without almost noticing it.<\/li>\n<li>Lifts that works only for some floors.<\/li>\n<li>Levels that are only accessed by some lifts and escalators.<\/li>\n<li>Different placement of lifts and escalator, it&#8217;s a seek and find game to spot the right one that takes you where you want.<\/li>\n<li>Solitary escalators to which you have to walk, just to check if it&#8217;s going up or down.<\/li>\n<li>The list continues up to the infinite&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The series can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megavideo.com\/?d=XWZHIMJO  \">http:\/\/www.megavideo.com\/?d=XWZHIMJO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megavideo.com\/?d=GHIWY73L  \">http:\/\/www.megavideo.com\/?d=GHIWY73L<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megavideo.com\/?d=ZWP5AZOP  \">http:\/\/www.megavideo.com\/?d=ZWP5AZOP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a title=\"Damariana's twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/damariana\">D\u00e1maris<\/a> for telling about this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s taken for granted that order makes our life easier. And it&#8217;s also better known that shopping malls are created so that you have to walk a little bit to come across shops while you seek for the next escalators. 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