Patent ID: 6941711
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: E04F,E04H

Abstract:
1. A barrier-free handicap accessible residence in which adjacent residential levels within the residence are connected by ramps comprising: a) residence having four or more full story residential levels, said levels being divided between a first set and a second set, said second set having an equal or one fewer level than the first set, wherein the full story residential levels in each set are stacked above one another and the two sets of stacked residential levels are adjacent one another; b) said residence in which each full story level in one set is offset from the next highest or lowest full story level in the other set by one-half story; c) a first set of ramps which begin on levels separated by a full story and are similarly sloped and are stacked one above the other with the lowermost ramp of the ramp set starting at the lowermost residential level in the set of residential levels; and d) a second set of ramps which begin on levels separated by a full story similarly sloped and stacked one above the other with the lowermost ramp of the ramp set starting at the lowermost residential level in the second set of residential levels but which residential levels are offset from the residential levels of the first set of ramps by one-half story wherein each ramp connects residential levels separated in elevation by one-half story.