The dense urban culture in the very traditional neighborhood of Bastikiya, Dubai, is one that revolves around art and exhibiting it. The direction of this second year project was to design a house for an artist located in the heart of that area that included a gallery component.
The custom staircase here act as both a functional part of the house as well as the main sculptural constituent in a district that celebrates art. Its final form is the result of many different iterations of, and explorations into, a different take on the traditional brick wall. Countless forms were derived from this wall solely by rotating specific bricks by different degrees. The culmination of this exercise was manipulating the rotations in such a way that it was possible to create a functional staircase that seemed to grow organically from the wall it is a part of.
