"For all that passes, passes by the stairs, and all that comes, comes by the stairs: letters, announcements of births, marriages, and deaths, furniture brought in or taken out by removers, the doctor called in an emergency, the traveller returning from a long voyage."
Life A User's Manual, Georges Perec
Ideas about ritual in domesticity are borne out in the staircase. TAKA use the memory of the staircase as a conceptual driver, the staircase is seen as a room in it's own right.
The staircase plays an integral part in how we might begin to think about the intersection between the domestic and the common room space as it oscillates between public and what can essentially be considered private.
Love the idea of staircase as intercessor/liminal space between domestic and collective
ReplyDeleteExcellent, also staircase as a spatial and archival organisational tool...could allow for exploration of the differences in approach.
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