This has always puzzled me. Each floor is about the same distance apart and I see no logical reason for it. I hope someone can enlighten me, and anyone else who has been curious about this ‘missing floor’.

by Weary_Swordfish_7105

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  3. We don’t talk about that floor.

    Police is already on the way to make you forget about it

  4. Because of a lack of international standards in labeling floors.

    Some countries call the ground floor “the ground floor” others call it “the first floor”. And with an international public, there will be no confusion whether or not you need to take stairs to go to “1”, as in this case, “2” is always up.

    It can also be, like in airport, that level 1 is not a level available for the public, but a lot of technical staff is there.

    Many, many skyscrapers will go from level 12 to level 14, because of superstition. They reserve the level 13 for black cats.

  6. Could make a joke about 22 march 2016 but i feel it’s too early as victims are still not compensated

  12. There is, its just not accessible from this point.

    Its not that deep

  13. Based on cultures, the “ground” floor is either 0 or 1. To avoid confusion, discard 1 😉

  14. Common Belgian superstition around being the primus or number 1 at anything. We have a culture that exalts mediocrity, and trying to outclass your peers at anything is seen as a terrible faux-pas, on par with hugging a stranger in Japan.

  15. *Sigh* That’s the Belgian way again huh.

    If you want a special floor to keep all your state secrets in, please don’t choose the first floor?

    And don’t make it so blatantly obvious on the signs ….

  16. It’s there, it’s just not a publicly accessible area.

    Also of note: what occasionally happens in large installations like these, or in hospital complexes, is levels that are at the same height/altitude even in separate buildings/blocks, are given the same number. I believe it has something to do with fire departments. To the point where a level you would consider to be the ground floor has a negative number or a number above zero.

  17. It’s where the UFOs are kept. You’re not supposed to go there.

  18. If you go in the area near gates A30, there are also stairs going down to a big dark floor (behind the Belgian Red House).

  19. It’s a technical area where are the cabling and technical conduits are routed.

    It’s normal in buildings like airports, hospitals, etc.

  20. Level 1 cannot be accessed since it is fully allocated for the 3-hour passport queue.

  21. There is, there’s just no publicly accessible lift, and the main part is taken by the atrium from 0. I don’t remember – it’s almost 20 years ago I worked there – but there might be personnel lifts.

  22. They load the planes with the chemicals for the chemtrails there. We’re not supposed to know that.

  25. The first floor is split-level and just not reachable via this elevator.

  26. So it has nothing to do with confused languages (i’m looking at you Americans) that count 1st floor as the 0 level?

  27. I work at one of the buildings near the airport and level 1 is basically the staff tunnel. So we don’t have to cross people that are travelling we can take the tunnel from the train station directly to our company buildings parking lot and it’s so fast and calm. Compared to taking 10min going the usual way to like 5-7min with the tunnel ☺️

  31. This also tackles the first and ground floor discrepancies across English

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