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Modern staircase 2, Somerset House
According to www.architectmagazine.com/technology/detail/detail-the-mi...
'With a dazzling steel-mesh newel and transparent balustrade, the Miles Stairs provides a contemporary yet complementary focal point in the west wing of the neoclassical Somerset House, in London. Named for Gwyn Miles, former director of the Somerset House Trust, which owns the former royal palace and now popular arts and cultural center, the five-story staircase has 104 steps, which includes 14 landings.
The tight space available within the house and sensitivity to the architectural context guided local firm Eva Jiricna Architects (EJA) to design a helical stair that wraps an ethereal steel-mesh newel, which rises nearly 65 feet from a load-bearing floating slab to the ground level and then to the four upper floors. “A fine steel newel was adopted to create a central focus without becoming too dominant in the space,” says EJA director Duncan Webster.
The 4.75-foot-diameter newel consists of approximately 550 bent steel rods, each 4 meters (13.1 feet) long. The rods are welded to machined circular bosses, linked by facing steel plates—or “bicycle chain bracing,” Webster says—and secured by washers and countersunk bolts. EJA designed the staircase with Microstation and Rhinoceros while local structural engineer Techniker used Microstation, Robot, and Midas.'
Modern staircase 2, Somerset House
According to www.architectmagazine.com/technology/detail/detail-the-mi...
'With a dazzling steel-mesh newel and transparent balustrade, the Miles Stairs provides a contemporary yet complementary focal point in the west wing of the neoclassical Somerset House, in London. Named for Gwyn Miles, former director of the Somerset House Trust, which owns the former royal palace and now popular arts and cultural center, the five-story staircase has 104 steps, which includes 14 landings.
The tight space available within the house and sensitivity to the architectural context guided local firm Eva Jiricna Architects (EJA) to design a helical stair that wraps an ethereal steel-mesh newel, which rises nearly 65 feet from a load-bearing floating slab to the ground level and then to the four upper floors. “A fine steel newel was adopted to create a central focus without becoming too dominant in the space,” says EJA director Duncan Webster.
The 4.75-foot-diameter newel consists of approximately 550 bent steel rods, each 4 meters (13.1 feet) long. The rods are welded to machined circular bosses, linked by facing steel plates—or “bicycle chain bracing,” Webster says—and secured by washers and countersunk bolts. EJA designed the staircase with Microstation and Rhinoceros while local structural engineer Techniker used Microstation, Robot, and Midas.'