I have just had an experience with an elevator that confirmed all my guide’s loathing. It was a platform inside a metal shaft. No walls. No ceiling. Push button, floor goes up or down, walls slide past.
You have to hold the button down on a central panel to move the floor, until a door appears in one of the walls and slides into position. If you lean or exert too much pressure on the panel, this apparently activates the emergency stop.
This is basically a video game elevator.
I’m both happy and disturbed to know the “wall-less, ceiling-less vertical platform” video game elevator actually exists…
Oh, that was probably what Norway calls a „Løfteplatform“, going very slowly and probably put in when they realized they’d forgotten disability access 🙈
(Or the architect used it as a design statement, which would be even more 🤦🏻
What’s the architects name, btw? )