BcompactDesign

Bcompact is an Australian design studio founded by Zev Bianchi, a Sydney industrial designer who first conceptualised the brand’s folding staircase in the early 2000s and built the first prototype in 2013. Patented and award-winning, the side-folding stair and ladder free up floor space in attics, lofts, mezzanines and compact homes, and are now shipped worldwide.

Bamboo is central to the practice: it is the material that made the folding structures possible and led the studio to advocate for bamboo as a low-impact building material. Bcompact designs for longevity rather than the throwaway economy, offering custom staircases and ladders alongside a prefabricated range.