Occupiable Stairs: Seating Steps and Platforms in School Atria

Design a school hall in the manner of Herman Hertzberger where the circulation is deliberately over-sized so it can be inhabited: a broad flight of concrete-block steps doubles as an auditorium, and a sunken square pit in the floor becomes a stage or a den. Compose the wide steps with children's cushions left on them, the recessed pit lined in the same grey block, timber-topped edges worn smooth, a clerestory washing light down the wall, soft even daylight, eye-level view across the steps, 24mm lens, interior photography, ultra photorealistic, 8K