Brief: Most of us interact with elevators almost every day of our lives. For technological and accessible reasons, we’ve grown up with elevators as a normal part of our lives, and we probably know most things about them. We would recognize the doors, the up and down buttons, the cab, the interior keypad, the elevator music, and some of us may have even seen an interior shaft or a mechanical room. It gets us to where we need to go and we don’t ask questions and certainly never think about designing an elevator as seriously or as in detail as we design the rest of our architecture. But why is that?
Schindler Elevator Corporation and the American Institute of Architecture Students challenge you to do just that: design the unimaginable in order to elevate the elevator experience!
Elevate 2.0 Competition
American Institute of Architecture Students
2021
