every student on this intro studio midterm review had a 3 story building with skinny staircases as the *only* vertical circulation. no elevators even!

which tells me that the instructors don& #39;t really care about universal design as a fundamental principle. bummer!

my second studio ever we were not allowed to use stairs. ramps only! total pain in the ass at the time and i hated it but it really did change how i thought about buildings from that point forward. get this stuff laid down early!

luckily other reviewers also noticed this and are sort of putting people on blast.

but when it& #39;s everyone it& #39;s not a student issue! it& #39;s an instructor issue!

and treating it as secondary to a concept, as "nuts and bolts to figure out later" - not good either imo!

"oh yeah well it& #39;s an early studio, we haven& #39;t focused on real world stuff like egress, staircases, and things like that, we& #39;re more interested in the ~~concept~~"

yeah idk "able bodied people only past this point" is not a great ~~concept~~

too many exclamation points in this thread