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August 2015

House 7 Stairs | Sideview | CHENG Design | sustainable, emotional, timeless design
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FLOATING CONCRETE: Stairway at House 7

I'm standing in the foyer lobby of the house . Finally, here, I was able to utilize all these different experiences of working with finished concrete in a super-engineered sculptural way in this staircase. For myself, being so involved with concrete for so long, for so many years, this is the pièce de résistance of sculpture and function all coming together in one fell swoop. Each one of these treads weighs approximately 250 pounds. They were "sledded" in on tracks. The guys moved each tread and slid it on so…
Fu-Tung Cheng
August 20, 2015