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As for it being there it might have been an after thought. and enough room to add a straight stair case.
And i love that you titled it "Helix" it's one of my irrational pet-hates that peopel call these things 'spiral staircases'. they're NOT spirals! they're HELICES!
imagine a piece of wire being wrapped around a cylinder. you've just made a helix. the width of it remains the same all the way along.
now wrap the wire around a CONE. that's a spiral, the width gets smaller towards one end.
As these staircases have a constant width all the way down, they're helices, not spirals. i have no idea why this irritates me so much, it's such a small, insignificant thing!