Hasta La Ideas

When it comes to innovations in staircases, we’ve seen ones that disappear (like this one and that one) but more often, it’s staircases doing double-duty as storage (like this and that) that tend to get the most blog ink. And it’s no wonder; stairs are handy places to stack things.

This South Korean house by architect Moon Hoon is the first new construction we’ve seen in which the staircase is specifically intended to do triple-duty: It’s a means of ascending & descending, it’s a storage unit, and it’s furniture.

“The basic request of upper and lower spatial organization and the shape of the site prompted a long and thing house with fluctuating facade which would allow for more differentiated [views],” writes Moon. “The key was coming up with a multi-functional space which is a large staircase, bookshelves, casual reading space, home cinema, slide….”

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