“Nature is synonymous with change and potential. Whatever seems fixed and immutable within our myopic human time-span, is still in flux over glacial aeons because it’s free particles.” - Kengo Kuma
 

Set atop the slope of Fall Creek Gorge, this project provides a residence for two visiting scholars. Its design language emerges from a conceptual interpretation of the site’s unique geology - a vectorial visualization of hidden forces, capturing the relative scales of movement between rock and water over deep time. This ongoing process of erosion shapes both the site’s geological and cultural identity, unfolding at a scale beyond human perception.

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​As the House of Stairs conceptually integrates to the natural order latent on the site, inhabitants attune to the intangible structure of the physical world in every moment of motion and stasis. Like water flowing down the slope, the cascading stairs and planes create inhabitable spaces that embody metaphorical meanings of progress, humility, and the flow of life and knowledge.