Before I even got a chance to get my last StairPorn.Revit entry rendered (so many problems! but I’m also experimenting with render settings :) ) I’ve completed another entry!  This stair comes to us from the Suppose Design Office in Japan.  The portion of the vertical circulation element that I modeled really emphasizes the whole idea of terracing.  Notice that the landing is split and steps up, becoming another riser in itself.

SP-7.5.09-Terrace

Terrace

Anyone else see the difference in the shaded view and the render?… I have no clue what happened there…

There were a few challenges that I had (and have yet) to overcome.  For starters, I can’t do a normal landing here.  Notice in the images that I can not have any stringer between the landings.  This meant I had to separate the stairs into 2 separate objects.  Then I had to make the stringers at the bottom run straight into the floor instead of being cut off.  There are a couple ways to do this, but I found that just beginning with a riser and then lowering the riser into the floor worked well.  The upper half of the stairs had to be a different stair type that the bottom stairs to get the landing to work with the stringers.  Then there was the rail… I don’t even want to go there because we all know that aside from site tools, the railing tool lacks quite a bit.

Anyhow, despite that, here it is!  The Terrace stair by Suppose Design Office.