Vertical Walking - The system moves between elevator and stairs

A team of designers from the Rombaut Frieling Lab in Eindhoven, Netherlands, has created a perfect "hybrid" system between stairs and elevators, allowing people to move up and down between. Easy floors, in a completely different way.

As you know, an elevator that wants to operate requires electricity to supply it, in addition, it is necessary to build additional stairs as a backup solution for emergencies, The area is not small in the buildings.

Abuse of elevators will cause us to become increasingly sedentary, leading to obesity or other illnesses. In the heart of the matter, you know you should take the stairs to maintain good health, but that certainly is not an option if you live or work on the 80th floor of a skyscraper. That is why the system called Vertical Walking was born.

Vertical walking works like an elevator, moving vertically but it is based on human power.

Basically, it acts as a lift, moving vertically but not electrically but requiring the movement of the user. Instead of stepping into the elevator, press a button and wait until it reaches the desired floor; In the new system, you have to use force from your arms and legs to push yourself up.

Although it sounds tired, using a series of springs in an intelligent design, along with the aid of pulleys and elastic belts, Vertical Walking requires less than 10% of energy. Consume when you use the stairs to come up the same distance. Although it was not possible to move the wheelchair upstairs, however, in tests of the first prototype, the system could still be used by people with disabilities.

Finally, with certain advantages, Vertical Walking may be the alternative to stairs in the future, or be applied to homes or buildings without too many floors. Of course, the elevator certainly still has its own value. No one wants to use such a system to climb to the 80th floor of a building every morning, then go down at the end of the day.