Stairs

[Margaret and Rijk Rietveld]

More pictures:

[Margaret and Rijk Rietveld]

See also toe Alkmaar thread and the Most Important Tool Threads.

Now that we have to design the Grand Stair for the Alkmaar project, we need to make some key decisions early: How much length is this stair take. So we need to decide first: How low are the risers, how deep is an individual tread.

This is not something you can lookup in the building code, so you need to find several of these steps. First you need to determine if they "walk well" and "sit well" and then measure them.

[Margaret and Rijk Rietveld]

Sometimes they make it hard to sit down (Our son Max in Istanbul)

[Margaret and Rijk Rietveld]

Gratz (www.gratzindustries.com) in Queens is building a part of a larger stair for one of our projects. The craftmanship is incredible.

[Koen Eykhout]

(No, I'm not posting quotes from water companies this time.)

I just came across this picture, and it really HAD to be posted here:


It's in La Maison Unique Longchamp, in SoHo, a design of Thomas Heatherwick, who also designed the UK's pavillion at the Shanghai world expo.

[Margaret and Rijk Rietveld]

I love the concept of that stair, but the railing really ruins the whole design. I don't think that we would have continued with a concept like this if that would be the only solution for the handrail.

[ardbuijsen]

Isn't this a perfect example of how a great concept (or idea) does't work in real life. The problem is that the designer doesn't seem to understand his own idea. Quit a shame.

I had the honor creating (not designing) these stairs in Nijverdal. They were constructed in Enschede and transported by special transport to Nijverdal. A mobile crane inside the building put it in place:

[Margaret and Rijk Rietveld]

I like the integration of the landing, without disturbing the formal flow of the stair.

[tournesol]

I love this one! Stairs.....while having a most functional and necessary element joining spaces within spaces and for different reasons, while at the same time sculptural elements within and outside of the envelope, the designer may still have nightmares about it while in a deep sleep....can it be more fun, materials reading, construction constraints, correctly calculated to norm etc etc. For myself stairs were always the highlight of a design the essence of movement, sculpture in all details and views, as we well know. fun fun! have a 'stair' cartoon you may want a copy of circa 1985/86.....

[tournesol]

shop in Queens looks superb + the stair!

then...max has grown! since the last photo you sent Xmas ??? year?? he was probably a bit more than 1 year.

detail...so humans get the same treatment as pigeons if not in their correct place.