| ▲ | general1465 an hour ago | ||||||||||||||||
> Large parts of the floor would be illegal to hand to anyone due to lack of natural light: This is weird regulation to me. Why it is not allowed for apartment, but it is OK for office? Both buildings are sheltering humans, just during different stage of being awake. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Arnt 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
1000m² with one window wall: do you think that's an open-plan office or an apartment? And you can't really split it into ten, an apartment with e.g. 5m of windows and 20m depth doesn't work. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | TFNA an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Like the GP said: in offices the floor is often a big open space where light from windows can extend a long way. But once you start dividing up that big space into smaller residential units with walls, that light gets blocked. | |||||||||||||||||
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