Bauhaus Stairwell: Cantilevered Treads and Thin Tubes

An early modernist staircase. White terrazzo treads cantilever from one side of a white wall, with no risers, allowing light to pass between the steps and cast parallel shadows below. The handrail is a horizontal chrome-plated steel tube, supported by several equally spaced vertical slender tubes. The walls are pure white, without any decoration. A tall vertical window or glass block wall brings in light. Avoid: using solid enclosed stairs, adding wooden handrails and carved balusters, hanging pictures and decorations on the wall, using curved decorative shapes.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個早期現代主義的樓梯間。白色的水磨石踏板從一片白牆單邊懸挑出來,沒有立板,光從梯級之間穿過在下方投出平行的影子。扶手是一根水平的鍍鉻鋼管,由幾根等距的垂直細管支撐。牆面是純白的,沒有任何裝飾。一道垂直的高窗或玻璃磚把光引進來。避免:使用實心封閉的樓梯、加入木作扶手與雕刻欄杆、在牆上掛畫與裝飾、使用彎曲的裝飾造型。