Plus occasional updates on Dezeen’s services and breaking news. Sent every Thursday and featuring a selection of the best reader comments and most talked-about stories. Our most popular newsletter, formerly known as Dezeen Weekly. We recently compiled a selection of combined bookshelves and staircases and also ran a slideshow of houses with ground floors that open up to the garden. It turns into a piece of land art, which adds an extra dimension to the place and generates life." Plassen Cultural Centre by 3XN By turning the building into an integrated part of the public square it becomes more than a building. "People use the to meet and hang out on a daily basis just as much as they come there for live performances. "By using steps instead of traditional seats, the atmosphere becomes more informal," 3XN creative director Kim Herforth Nielsen told Dezeen. These make-shift arenas vary from small open-air theatres to elaborate landscaping projects, such as 3XN's cultural centre in Molde, Norway, where stairs climb up over the roof to a viewing platform.
Outdoor stairs with deep treads and low risers, often referred to as bleachers, are also regularly used as temporary seating when public spaces are turned into performance venues.
We've also published a South Korean house where a slide is incorporated into the giant steps and a residential project that features stairs you can sit on both internally and externally. Tiered platforms that are even larger, three steps deep and high, can even be used as places to nap. Sjötorget Kindergarten by Rotstein ArkitekterĬhunky steps are ideal in spaces for children, where large steps become extra play surfaces and stages for shows.
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