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Student BUILDING IDEA: USE OF NON-PULLEY / MOTOR DRIVEN ELEVATORS
These would increase the operational degrees of freedom to possibly 3 (as far as human transport transportation is concerned) and allow for modelling of structures in general to depart from the vertical high-rise model (built predominantly around the 1 DOF lift) to a more organic shape where necessary while maintaining functional access to lifts (and such actuation platforms) not limited to proximity to a vertical cable system.
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