As he did not want to spend a lot of money for his stairs that are not in a standard config, Marc Ollhäuser got the idea to make one for “cheap” with skateboard decks. He used a CAD program to draw the structure, and thus the result is a really integrated design. Impressive ! Good idea !
++ All details here (in german, so we could not translate a lot…)










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those decks look new and not recycled…
while this is a hell of a DIY design project (custom steel??), nothing about it looks recycled, or even particularly ‘sustainable’.
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Greta is right, but that still doesn’t hinder its radness.
recyclage ? pas trop les planches sont neuves (une planche=70euros), et il ne serait pas prudent d’essayer avec des planches usagées, sinon l’idée est original mais je trouve que les planches s’intègrent mal dans la structure métallique, ça aurait été plus jolie avec des montants en bois dans lesquels les planches seraient emboitées en dépassant légèrement (ici on dirait que les marches sont à l’envers:( ), c’est à développer.
[...] skateboard stairs concept reaches reality. Though featured on Recyclart, those are clearly all new skateboards, and kind of crappy modern Kryptonics if I’m not [...]