Rainbow Effect Stairwell - Yanko Design
A rainbow refracted through windows lined with prismatic film fills a white stairwell designed past Steven Holl. The perforated steel staircase and skylight are part of Holl'south renovation of an existing edifice that at present re-houses the Section of Philosophy at New York Academy.
The faculty was concerned that relocating from a unmarried floor in its old premises to a six-storey building might result in less advice betwixt department members. Holl'due south solution was to brand the steel stair, which he calls the "Tower of Light", the center of the interior design and then that it would encourage movement between the floors. The bright and diverting staircase snakes through the 19th-century building at sharp irregular angles, breaking onto generous landings intended to promote contact.
The perforated motif of the stair is continued through the rest of the interior, which includes faculty and student offices, seminar rooms, a periodicals library and a ground-floor cork-lined auditorium.
Holl's idea to line the windows with low-cal-reflecting film was inspired by Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein'south book Remarks on Color. "We did non desire to constitute a theory of colour (neither a physiological 1 nor a psychological i)," says Holl. "But rather a logic of colour concepts." The upper floors of the kinesthesia have been designed in blackness and white and the same perforated pattern tin be found on the chairs, as well designed by Holl. "We decided to go all black and white just with the implication of colour through reflection and refraction."
According to Holl, the design is already having the desired effect. Where New Yorkers normally accept the elevator for just one or two floors, hither the staircase is more pop.
Designer: Steven Holl
Source: https://www.yankodesign.com/2007/11/01/rainbow-effect-stairwell/
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