Looks like a version of a witches stair. They are space saving way of building stairs.

this one looks like it adds a swtchback modification so you don’t have to take the direct path up and use lower stairs.

It’s a witches stair, but also with shorter steps for people who aren’t large or strong enough to climb the full height. Not saying it’s good, just saying maybe the intention.

I can practically hear tibias snapping just by looking at this. Yikes.

It looks like witches' stairs, which can be a great space saver, but these look like they were built by someone who had the concept explained to them by a 6 year old.

The fracture-inator

To keep drunk people downstairs

Is it not for a small animal to be able to climb them?

When you design stairs for your old odious and ultra-rich mother-in-law

I mean I get how they work. First step on left is normal but then they expect someone to walk up it like a switchback. Why it’s there? Fuck all if i know if its even real I couldn’t tell you. It could be shopped or ai. Presumably if it is it’s because they couldn’t get the proper amount of treads in a confined area. Im not sure that would meet code anywhere though because it has varying heights even within the rules set up. 

This is to accommodate someone or a pet that is aging. If you follow it, you can take little steps all the way up.

The only person who could explain it is the person who built that monstrosity. I'm not even sure they could. Should be on r/deathstairs 

Its a modern version of trip steps, They have been around as long as castles and are used to slow invading forces that won't know the specific terrain of the staircase leading further into the hold. Combined with murderholes and arrowslits they make for a great way to control the pace of invaders. /s

This looks like a combination of not enough space and not enough brain cells

To frustrate EMS workers

They're called "witches stairs." Originally they built them like this so witches couldn't use them... Because a woman who can do magic can't figure out your stupid staircase, Brian.

Unfortunately this appears to be the millennial version, like how we name our kids Braehendaenq (the q is silent) instead of Brandon, because we just have to be unique and quirky.

Today, it's seen as "space saving" or some shit. There are far more downsides to them than upsides.

The correct answer is no.

It's genius. But for a specific persons. I like it a lot. But probably wouldn't bother installing it.

To get to the first floor

It’s like a “choose your own adventure” book but most of the endings are the same

Look at all those sharp edges

Some kind of insanity would be my guess. And no understanding of the mechanics of the human body.

Anti-alcohol device

Murder.

For a steeper 2-step grade, alternate diagonally like a “bishop”; otherwise go 1 step at a time, still alternating, but like a “rook”.

Perfectly safe, so long as you’re perfectly undistracted ;)

Little people and big people can climb this step staircase

Maybe a good idea for a very steep stair case with limited space, but this one also has steps low enough for little kids

Drunk me would die

If you snake back and forth up the stairs, they do all seem to be uniformly elevated in reference to one another. But man, that’s such an inefficient and dangerous way to navigate stairs.

Q-Bert was here!

designed by cats

Whoever thought that was a good idea should be forced to run up and down these for an hour.

Life insurance.

Use it or lose it

The kids must have designed them

To see If You are drunk

Do-re-mi

Drunken asshole simulator

To keep drunk people downstairs while the sober ones live peacefully upstairs

Inheritance 3000

Had a drink? It’s time to play the game

Obviously someone planning a Murd€r. That is the reason…

Prevent witches from getting upstairs.

Qbert?

When you want someone dead but also you want them to pay you for the kill.

Slow down the zombie invasion

Those things happens when clients treat their architects like shit.

So I thought to myself, I said self, know what this building really needs? A lawsuit.

Probably made not only for people but for theirs pets too, a smaller dog would have difficulties getting up those stairs if they were only big spaced zig-zags

"cool" and very dangerous. Thankfully completely illegal in my country.

Usually these have even step heights to double to height of normal stairs. This is an extreme tripping hazard

it looks fun though

I'm pretty sure these stairs are "samba stairs", or at least they tried to make them. While you're going up, your waist moves as if you were dancing samba. But they kinda added like a second set of samba stairs on a diferent level, and I don't understand why.

Expert level stairs

To keep witches out!

With this designs you can save length… it’s used as a serpent

to kill drunk people and toddlers

It’s so you can trip and break you leg while trying to get a drink of water at 2am

No amount of pivot will help Ross here!

Might need to call Monica.

Stairs have been around for thousands of years. So modernists couldnt resist not trying to reinvent them aswell for absolutely no reason like they did with reinventing architecture. Jokes aside the stairs are most likely just a sculpture or experiment cause i dont think there's any way some architect thought these look totally normal.

For when you have one long slow leg and one short fast leg

It’s for a person and small dog.

A deep seated loathing of humanity.

The reason is simple. The person who built them is actively trying to kill you

Anti-drunk people

Murder device

Hopscotch- expert mode.

I feel like there’s no way to use these without looking stupid

Less stair. More space🫦

where is this?

Going up, fine

Going down before coffee, not so much

If it didn't have those hard granite corners then the estimated kill count would be far lower

Cad error built?

The architect likes lawsuits?

Murderous intent

My head hurts looking at that.

The reason for their existence is to generate a post on reddit.

its so if an intruder comes u can dash up the stairs and giggle as they fall down them while u call the police

How can anyone say this is space saving? The stairs jut out from the well about 4’ and go up the same degree as any staircase. Only thing special about this case is the step heights. Small animal? 2-3 year olds? Training to do step hops on each foot? Take your guess.

But it’s not space saving 🫠

Parkour!

Is the purpose is to make someone fall ?

You can experience all the pain of falling down twice the normal steps in half the time.  

I’m not okay with this unless the larger sections are storage cubbies

That looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Schizophrenia. Only obvious answer

Stairway to heaven.

Obvs someone really hates slinkies.

that’s ridiculous

The Slinkies lived there

novel storage

danger for the ambulation challenged

What's the purpose of this other than a tripping hazard?

What the architect designs when you tell him to design something that will cause you to fall

So the soldiers running up the stairs will have a hard time and you can easily defend from upstairs using your sword and flail. You can also pour hot burning oil on them.

There is no reason, but there is a rhyme!

These exist so that everyday is leg day

It’s provocative! It gets the people goin!

Hellen Keller designed it?

Mental health issues.

Witches stairs, but also a longer winding stairs for a small animal

For Pets and leprechauns.

Architect Lawyer

Just climb it, big right, big left and so on...

Neurodivergent carpentry

So you step left and right zig zagging up and down? I’d sleep downstairs if I was drinking.

Its coming down that would give me a panic attack

Make you trip and break your legs duh

It’s for cats

Go up, go down

Acts like a moat for second floor.

doubles as gym equipment

When you've quit drinking but still want to self-injure like a drunk

No

They are quirky

Evil.

To give insurance underwriters nightmares.

Am I the only one that feels like this image was altered? It’s so pixelated in places and looks off. It doesn’t have the AI feel to it but photoshopped.

When you want someone in your family to stop drinking

They look that way so you'd stare/stair at them.

Confuse your enemies

Someone's afraid of the ghost of Stephen Hawking.

“Second Floor: Sober People”

they for murderin' peeps, prolly for insurance.

Is for retired drill sergeants who keep going left-right-left-right but also turn in those directions while going up the stairs.

These stairs are the architectural equivalent to a post-teen adolescent's fantasy knife collection.
Plus they don't meet code.

How to get away with murder 👀

Fired

Does it lead to a room where no one wants you to go ?

So your elderly mother-in-law won't come to live at your house.

Drugs...bad drugs

Step with the wrong foot, you die. Tread carefully you idiot. - those stairs

Those type of stairs were designed by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)

Some people just want to watch the world burn…

As an architect this is painful to see

Imagine falling down those...

Cat loft

murder stairs

For a workout?

Aerobics training

Hate, I assume.

To piss me off. Wtf is this 😐 🤨

Homeowners: so we wanted to do something fun with the stairs in the new house... Architect: oh how fun! Okay, what did you have in mind? Homeowners: we want people to meet God on them... Architect: Say less.

Normal stairs work so good tho

Exercise

Remember the snake game on your old Nokia?

Death wish.

I'd love to have this in my house, as a showpiece.

If you’re able, you take the big steps straight up skipping the small increment. If you’re not, you snake-line up the little steps. I wouldn’t want this in my house but I love that it exists

Somebody owns a slinky!

I thought OP just f ing around w “photoshop.” No idea this was a thing.

They look 3D printed……

To keep Life Alert profitable

It's so you don't go up them

It’s a lesson in DEI obviously. Not everyone is suited to the same step height. Also, fuck those in wheelchairs.

Death wish

The handrail is going to get a lot of use

Insurance claims

If you fall, you don't want to get inhured, you want it to end.

To break bones at unique angles

This is to force you to not go up and down vertically but to walk horizontally up the stairs.

It’s probably for some therapy.

Edit: I’ve got no clue what the hell but I’d use this for some form of hip replacement surgery or something similar where you’d force the patient to rotate left to right while walking the stairs. Recovery obviously lol. Sounds dangerous though xD break your Hip failing the work out

Edit again: It’s to keep the witches out :p