Folded St(air)

It's a great joy for an architect to be able to create or even just to see a wonderfully complex and beautiful joint, but sometimes, this tectonic ecstacy is derived from something quite the opposite, something so severely simple that it takes great guts to conceive of it and even greater guts to implement it.

Folded Stairs by Kevin Mark Low

"mild steel.

The staircase for the aviary house was designed in one straight run along one side of its length in order to maximize room space since the property was long in depth. In order to bring light to the lower stair level, the upper flight had to be somewhat transparent to the natural daylight allowed in by a skylight up top. An added design task was created: the stair had to seemingly float in the space of its bounding walls. The solution was found in perforated steel sheets, cut to width and folded to the dimensions of treads and risers for the provision of structural integrity. The folded stair was suspended between the stair walls by mild steel pins located at the junctions where each tread met the top of their associated risers. "

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