AL_A provided a 95% complete CAD ‘concept’ model which we tailored to fit the existing architecture, which was subtly different on each of the four floors.
The idea behind the staircase we made for Austin D’arcy estate agents in Hammersmith was to give the impression of colour flowing like a waterfall down the stairs.
Making the Black Wall was a mammoth operation, but having made a complex CAD model with every element designed with minimal tolerances, we had allowed for most eventualities.
‘Treating the skin as a canvass,we looked at how Fontana would slash it to create a distorted, deformed surface from something that was initially flat.’ Amanda Levete