A Flight of Steps

GROUP 5 A FLIGHT OF STEPS Rawan Hussin Yun Liao Jakub Ryng

CONTENTS chaper 1

chaper 2

chaper 3

chaper 4

cinema expanded: response to brief

1

tower: a convoluted journey

36

the brief

2

central steps: a point of gathering

42

the symbolic staircase - cinematic inspiration

4

back to the black box

50

precedent studies

6

bridging across

54

journey continued

56

a girl on the riverbank: response to site

9

perspective section

58

the green heart of bath

10

landscape and public realm

60

a city garden 'overlooked'

12

elevations

62

model photographs

68

up and down, down: concept development

15

the essense of the scheme

16

chaper 5

a cinematic journey

75

getting there...

18

building layout

20

chaper 6

how it's made: structural strategy

93

material palette

22 chaper 7

keeping it going: environmental strategy

99

a film institute for bath: the scheme

27

beyond parade gardens; site plan

28

lower ground floor plan

30

ground floor plan

32

"Whenever the site of the film is not the screen, houses can be projected again onto houses or bodies onto bodies, the representation and the object overlap one another, the representation and the celluloid become superfluous. Technical reproducibility is replaced by immediacy, and with this the objective character of the film is transcended; state-reality is not reproduced, but rather the subject and its experience predominate. The “world” is no longer simulated; rather, the possibility of producing “world” is demonstrated."

Peter Weibel

"So there he is, isolated, but at the heart of a human environment, of a great gelatin of common soul, of a collective participation, which accordingly amplifies his individual participation."

Edgar Morin