STOLPERFALLE

Urban installation for the main stair at ZhDk.ZhDK, School of Arts, Zurich, Switzerland. April. 2016. PART OF THE MASTER SCHOOL PROGRAM.

Workshop from NTA, which consisted in the development of an Urban Installation at ZhDK in Zurich.

 Stolperfalle, point at me where is ok to sit.

“The students used to be spread out around the city, in different buildings, going to class and then back home or to their studios, and they keep acting the same way.”

“The building behaves like a small city.”

“The central stairs represents a boulevard.”

These were three comments that I heard during the workshop, which became for me a starting point. I like to think that a Boulevard is a main walking street, in which activities, both specific and spontaneous happen.

Storperfalle is a project about  reprogramming the  main activity of a stair, which is vertical circulation, and connecting this reprogramming with the concept of the boulevard. This intervention consist in the construction of non semiotic elements(chairs, sofas, etc.) that will be placed  along the stair, to frame spaces for different activities to appear.

A place to stay, and a place to walk, a place to have small meeting. A place that will make the transition between the private (art school specific activities) spaces and the public (circulation) spaces smoother and softer. To offer users the possibility to stay, to walk slower, to change the speed, to find places to communicate.

This construction consist in a movable, large steps, in which the modularity of which allows it to change the space according to different needs and conditions, several steps can be added together and create a much larger and diverse  space, they can be organized to function as a stage or a sitting area, or small meeting places spread out on the stairs.

In the concept of the boulevard, this items will be the small parks, the little spot, where people sit to eat an ice cream.