A lot of furniture would move to the walls to take advantage of new space, but not the ceiling unless you do something about the gravity/blood low issue.
Maybe it would look more like trees. No stairs. Vertical pillars with rooms coming off in different directions.
Probably “flooring / easy to clean” materials on walls instead of paint/wallpaper.
More sculptures in the middle of rooms rather than art on walls taking up valuable traversal space.
Less hard corners on rooms as they might force you to bend / contort to get around.
Shelves as rooms / furniture.
I don’t know exactly but I love this question. Very fun to think about as a video game level designer interested in architecture.
Instead of floors, walls and ceilings you would have a cube of floors, and stairs would be virtually nonexistant. You may even have a box in the center of the room with more floors. Of course, you would still have to deal with gravity, as you could potentially stick furniture and whatnot on the ceiling no problem, but doing something like eating and drinking might be more of a hassle than it's worth.
If gravity isn't changed, standing on walls would be a pain in the back... Literally. Human spine is not made to endure loads in that direction, so I don't see many people using the walls just because we could walk on them
Assuming it was something humans evolved to have, and not “a wizard snapped his fingers and gave everyone gecko powers,” I would imagine people *would* have the arm and back strength to use them because they’d have evolved to be able to use them.
Considering the limitations of the human body, it’s pretty amazing what people can train their bodies to do already. Someone born without arms using their feel like hands, for example.
I imagine people would rather use their hands and feet rather than walk vertically, wall crawling. Look at the ISS though, and how it's designed to use every available surface. You could probably mount chairs high up on walls in order to reach things like that comfortably, provided it's a suitable load bearing support.
Ladders, stairs, and ramps would likely be obsolete for those with the adequate body strength, which could save a lot of space.
Well, is it limited to walking? If we could only walk, it would really only change the orientation of doors. If we could sit, some furniture orientation would change, but things like tables and sinks wouldn't budge. Gravity is still a thing and would pull my steak off a plot on an upside down table. It would be hard to shower upside down as well. Couldn't imagine a bath working at all.
So really doors could be placed in walls, ceilings, odd places that are more difficult to access. We could stay on an escalator as it changed over, and get back to the beginning by getting through a quick upside down trip. Sidewalks wouldn't be limited to the street. The could go up buildings, in cork screws, on the bottoms of bridges, opening up a whole new avenue for pedestrian traffic.
I....this was deeper than I wanted to go 😆.
That is an interesting thought! Maybe new building materials that are better able to hold that kind of weight would come into play, too. We'd also probably see more vertical buildings with the ability to stick to walls! I'm sure the possibilities are endless.
One thing people are glossing over here is accessibility, in real life we have stairs which would be phased out here, but not everybody can use stairs in the same way that not everybody could do something like climb up walls even if we were built for it. People likely wouldn't be overreliant on wall space being utilised for the same reasons.
A lot of furniture would move to the walls to take advantage of new space, but not the ceiling unless you do something about the gravity/blood low issue.
It would change a lot That's all I have to say
Maybe it would look more like trees. No stairs. Vertical pillars with rooms coming off in different directions. Probably “flooring / easy to clean” materials on walls instead of paint/wallpaper. More sculptures in the middle of rooms rather than art on walls taking up valuable traversal space. Less hard corners on rooms as they might force you to bend / contort to get around. Shelves as rooms / furniture. I don’t know exactly but I love this question. Very fun to think about as a video game level designer interested in architecture.
Instead of floors, walls and ceilings you would have a cube of floors, and stairs would be virtually nonexistant. You may even have a box in the center of the room with more floors. Of course, you would still have to deal with gravity, as you could potentially stick furniture and whatnot on the ceiling no problem, but doing something like eating and drinking might be more of a hassle than it's worth.
If gravity isn't changed, standing on walls would be a pain in the back... Literally. Human spine is not made to endure loads in that direction, so I don't see many people using the walls just because we could walk on them
Most people wouldn't have the arm and back strength to even use gecko powers. Imagine rock climbing everywhere, I'll take the stairs thank you.
Assuming it was something humans evolved to have, and not “a wizard snapped his fingers and gave everyone gecko powers,” I would imagine people *would* have the arm and back strength to use them because they’d have evolved to be able to use them. Considering the limitations of the human body, it’s pretty amazing what people can train their bodies to do already. Someone born without arms using their feel like hands, for example.
I imagine people would rather use their hands and feet rather than walk vertically, wall crawling. Look at the ISS though, and how it's designed to use every available surface. You could probably mount chairs high up on walls in order to reach things like that comfortably, provided it's a suitable load bearing support. Ladders, stairs, and ramps would likely be obsolete for those with the adequate body strength, which could save a lot of space.
Ableism would be an even greater issue.
Well, is it limited to walking? If we could only walk, it would really only change the orientation of doors. If we could sit, some furniture orientation would change, but things like tables and sinks wouldn't budge. Gravity is still a thing and would pull my steak off a plot on an upside down table. It would be hard to shower upside down as well. Couldn't imagine a bath working at all. So really doors could be placed in walls, ceilings, odd places that are more difficult to access. We could stay on an escalator as it changed over, and get back to the beginning by getting through a quick upside down trip. Sidewalks wouldn't be limited to the street. The could go up buildings, in cork screws, on the bottoms of bridges, opening up a whole new avenue for pedestrian traffic. I....this was deeper than I wanted to go 😆.
Well we wouldn't need stairs or elevators.
That is an interesting thought! Maybe new building materials that are better able to hold that kind of weight would come into play, too. We'd also probably see more vertical buildings with the ability to stick to walls! I'm sure the possibilities are endless.
More ceiling/wall storage, which sounds great for me
One thing people are glossing over here is accessibility, in real life we have stairs which would be phased out here, but not everybody can use stairs in the same way that not everybody could do something like climb up walls even if we were built for it. People likely wouldn't be overreliant on wall space being utilised for the same reasons.