A stair threaded through a hundred-year-old terrace.
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The brief
A second-storey addition on a narrow Inner West terrace: the architect drew a steel stair rising through a tight void, and the builder needed it to arrive finished, fit first time, and not hold up the program. Terraces this age are never square, which is exactly how stairs built from drawings alone go wrong.
The template
We measured the void after the structure went up, not before: wall lean, slab level, the true rise. The stair was then fabricated to the building as it actually is, with the balustrade built on the same jig so the junctions land where they should.
The install
The flight came in through the front door, up the void, and bolted to the plates cast into the slab. Treads, balustrade and handrail followed the same day. The builder's carpenters were back on the landing the next morning, which is the entire point of fabricating off-site to a real template.