stephanieNY

Check out this lift/room at Rem Koohaas' Maison Bordeaux. The handicapped user here sits in his sweet office to get between floors instead of in a cramped and isolated elevator. Bookshelves run the height of the shaft, thus never depriving the office of books. Each floor is constantly redefined by the presence or absence of the room.  

Beautiful.

The rest of the house (designed as a "machine for living") moves too: