The Composition
The most exciting projects tend to be the ones that push an architect to think outside the box, and that are full of interesting challenges. Take designing a staircase based on an abstract painting: how creative would that be?!.
“Composition” by Félix Del Marle belongs to the abstract and constructivist artistic movement, characterized by geometric shapes, parallel lines, and overlapping colors. The artwork conveys a sense of compositional balance through the interplay of rectangles and lines of different thicknesses and directions.
Transposing to Architecture
An architect can use such compositional principles to design an exterior staircase that becomes both a sculptural and functional element of urban space.
The color palette is translated into materials and the geometric shapes are reinterpreted as steps, railings, and structural supports.
The resulting design reinterprets the painting through a contemporary lens:
This project demonstrates how abstract painting can become a source of architectural inspiration.
Turning an abstract work such as Félix Del Marle’s “Composition” into architecture was a fascinating process of converting 2D art into 3D space.
