Accessibility Performance for a Safe, Fair, and Healthy Use of the Elevator

The elevator is a machine, a transport system, a space. It is the solution par excellence addressed to everyone. Its installation and use should be simple, and open to all users. The accessibility (for all), safety, and hygiene aspects of the elevator are constantly evolving: on these topics, this research takes its first steps and deepens each subject connected to \u2018the vertical travel\u2019. The paper introduces the European Standards on elevator\u2019s accessibility, defines the declination of DfA/HCD methodology applied to product design processes, and shows some innovative product solutions inspired by the health emergencies, which are suitable for inclusion and safety above the current circumstances. Finally, the interaction of the studies represents the base for future research collaboration about the safe and fair use of elevators and vertical journeys

La crisi nel vuoto

The crisis into the void Considering the city, and its buildings, as a place of union of physical and socio-economic relationships, what happens when one of this aspects is missing? In light of the current pandemic, the real relationship space that characterized part of the urban and architectural composi- tion clashes with the regulatory provisions, in order to ensure physical (but not social) distancing. The article reflects on the “times of crisis”, for cities and their inhabitants, looking into these spaces of relationship, which re-read their raison d’être in a term of forced virtual relationships