Engineering Maze

The living staircase’ is actually a combination of a staircase and room, of movement and stillness, vertical and horizontal,’ explains Paul Cocksedge. ‘At every turn, there is an opportunity to stop and look, smell, read, write, talk, meet, think and rest. if a staircase is essentially about going from A to B, there is now a whole world living and breathing in the space between the two.

To transform the function of a series of steps so that they become much more than just a means of transitioning between floors, Paul Cocksedge has envisioned ‘the living staircase’.

The central load bearing pillar is removed from the staircase and replaced by platforms at each level.

View of ‘the living staircase’ from one of the floors.

 Diagram depicting the structural evolution of ‘the living staircase’.