The family’s request was straightforward: to connect two floors. However, this requirement opened the possibility of conceiving the staircase as more than a purely functional element, transforming it into the heart of the house.
The main constraint was its location, directly above the first flight of the existing staircase and set between the geometry of a bathroom and the hallway. The new structure is supported by a beam that anchors the structural pillar and is stabilised by a series of folded steps, aligned tangentially with the load-bearing wall. The sequence of varying step typologies establishes a dynamic rhythm, solid at the base, lighter and more open in the middle, and increasingly directional towards the top.
As the staircase assumed its role as the home’s central element, it began to shape the surrounding spaces, including the bathrooms, study, and bedrooms, through the incorporation of shelves, openings, colour, and shifting spatial compositions. In this way, the staircase becomes an organising device, defining a new domestic experience for its primary inhabitants, two young girls.