Setting up a stair type

Throughout this course we've considered many ways to explore a building…design using both massing forms and basic model components like walls, floors, and roofs.…Our museum building has certainly come a long way from the beginning of the course.…In this chapter, we'll look at a few miscellaneous items to round out the design.…In this movie, we're going to start a three- part series on the grand stair in the main lobby.…There are no stair-modeling tools in the conceptual massing environment,…so we're going to take a look at what our end goal is here.…And this is what we will have at the completion of the three movies. And it is…one large grand stair here with a triangular taper on both ends that goes up to…the second floor, and then at the landing, it tapers off into this second flight…of stairs running off in this direction here.…

In the first movie here, we're going to actually just build the stair type.…If you look at this stair, it's got open risers, it's got stringers that are…inset from the edges, a stringer down the middle. The risers are actually…