Stair design in new construction platform staircase

Hello everyone,

I would like to hear your opinion on our planned staircase design. It is a hillside house with a staircase with landings. There are two landings, as the staircase leads from the basement to the ground floor and from there to the upper floor. So far, a steel stringer staircase with oak steps is planned. This should definitely remain from the ground floor to the upper floor and was also planned for the other part of the staircase. Now I have been advised to have the part from the ground floor to the basement formed and built solidly with oak flooring. What do you think of this suggestion? The reasoning was to avoid a dark basement hole. I thank you in advance for your contributions. Best regards

I did not understand the explanation. How is more light supposed to get into the basement through a [Betontreppe]?

Hello Obstlerbaum, I expressed myself poorly. I am more concerned with the view from the ground floor into the basement. I would rather not look into the naturally dark basement floor. With a cast concrete stair, you can see up to the landing, whereas with a continuous metal stair with wooden steps, you can also see through the gaps of the steps down into the basement. I am currently leaning towards designing the part from the ground floor to the basement as a solid stair and then only designing the stair in metal from the ground floor upwards. The disadvantage here, however, is that the stair is not consistent throughout, since the lower part would be a concrete stair.

Why not concrete everything? I wouldn't do half and half. I think that looks weird.

Why should that look strange? After all, it’s not a glass stairwell, nor does anyone linger on the stairs for a view. You only have the one floor in sight, so just the few stairs, about 4-5. I consider it a rumor that this could be disturbing or look odd. It will certainly be more pleasant visually in the basement if it is closed off. Whether with risers or a concrete staircase... otherwise, you could link the light on the second half of the basement stairs with the light from the ground floor, but I wouldn’t favor that.

I don't find it weird at all ... for example, we have law downstairs and wood upstairs ( [Podesttreppe] ) everyone also said it would definitely look weird ... I think it's awesome