Stairs - past and present

All the same whether a steep ladder or a flat ramp, each stairs serves for the overcoming of elevator differences. Not only constructional, but also many structural requirements and creative criteria are determining when planning of stairs. With the primitive people of the forest region the climbing tree was the first form of stairs. Whereas the inhabitants of the steppe region stacked up stones. It concerned here simple straight stairs. Today we know different shapes of stairs. Them where created by a long persisting development of staircase construction. Many stylistic periodes (e.g. baroque) have their influence on optical effect of stairs. Today stairs are regarded first under the criterion of security, whereby security and beauty of stairs can be quite connected.  The picture shows the queen stairs in Versailles, which of Louis Le Vau (1612 - 1670) in 17. Century was created.

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