19 February 2014

rotterdam folly

credit: contemporist

NEXT architects has definitely done it right with their sculptural folly overlooking Rotterdam. The staircase perched delicately on a hill in the suburb of Carnisseland is titled Elastic Perspective. Based on a Mรถbius strip, a single twist in a ring of oxidized steel creates the illusion of continuity, that the user might be able to walk the track uninterrupted. What happens at the turn is not exactly clear as far as, 'Will you fall of the edge,' goes but that's no matter, because it's a folly and not a playground, a moment of architecture to sculpt our perception.   

credit: NEXT