Imagine architecture for creatures who easily climb vertical surfaces: a main entrance for a building could be in the center of the 2nd or 3rd floor— heck, you might not have floors, rather a system of depth: the number of major chambers from the main entrance— Theater ‘in the round?’ Try theatre in the sphere! Meeting rooms would have ceiling seats for the interns…
(If creatures are climbers & have fair sight the tension between natural light & space-efficiency produces incredible spaces)
Imagine public spaces like stadiums: a stadium could still have a bowl shape— but why not put an inverted bowl with even more seats on the ceiling?
Same for subway cars: seats right up the walls! Of course, accessibility would be an issue too (one of my queens has five legs and can’t climb in the ceiling anymore— Her daughters help her to move)
Maybe ceiling seats would be seen as something for the young and reckless a natural upside down peanut gallery. Nosebleed seats? Try headrush.
@futurebird Though, I've never seen ants get seated. Wouldn't it simply be a matter of having accessible space near enough to the action that it can be perceived?
Human architecture tends to think in populating smooth, flat spaces with furniture.
Would ants ever even arrive at flat spaces?
They'd probably sneak in some mud to get a little closer to the stage, every time, until the space is full of random protrusions, wobbling closer to the stage.
@futurebird I only saw this second post and not the first one. I was still on board with it. Some opera houses are most of the way there already. Let me sit on the ceiling!!!
@futurebird you're getting at this wrong I think, in a species that can easily hang on walls (I'm thinking 'gecko hands') ceiling "seats" might actually be preferred by older people rather than young ones because hanging upside down stretches their backs 👉😎👉