creative Solutions and Musings by Carl Gibson
StairPorn.Revit – 7.5.09: Terrace Stairs by Suppose Design Office
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.
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.
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about 3 years ago
The only difference between shaded and rendered that I see is that you can’t see the bottom most tread in the rendering. Isn’t it weird how Revit fights to show those two coincident surfaces in shaded with edges and hidden line views? Isn’t it also interesting that it doesn’t so that in the rendered view?
BTW, WAS that the difference? I did I totally miss it?
about 3 years ago
Look at the rail at the landing. For some reason it rendered disconnected and the shaded view shows it connected. Yes, the tread is sunk below floor and I couldn’t find a good looking angle that hid the tread in the floor… oh well.
about 3 years ago
The gap in the railing is also reflected in the landing to landing height.
about 3 years ago
hey would it be possible for you to create a step by step tutorial on how to create custom stairs like this and what are some major obstacles that one has to tackle before a stair like that happens to work in revit….besides that it all looks astonishing!! great work!!!