STAHLRAUM

STAHLRAUM / (The Transformation)

The staircase, from a practical point of view, is a construction designed to communicate several spaces located at different heights.

It has also been considered as a symbol of the progression towards knowledge, of the ascent towards knowledge and transfiguration, to the conscious and the unconscious.In “Stahlraum” (it means steel space in German), a transformation of that stair space takes place, turning it into different ways of following the path. Moving to different planes, levels and even labyrinths, as a simile of our own life, of that long-awaited search for knowledge, experience and transition.

(Transformation of the stairs of the building «Caixa Forum in Madrid» in homage to its architects, the Austrian-German Herzog and De meuron.)