STAIR HOUSE

PrizeOfficial Selection in Build (architecture)
CompanyBILL PRICE INC
ArtistBILL PRICE
CategoryProfessional
Design TeamRDP ENGINEERS INC, GTH LLC, S. MCGHEE, L. JONES, D. THOMPSON, S. GUERRA, V. GARCIA, A. DURAN, J. ORTEGA
ClientJIM JARD
CreditBill Price and Ben Hill

“STAIR HOUSE” is conceived as two volumes. One atop the other. Each is made accessible to the other using three types of stairs. A tapered straight-run stair takes you from the street to the second level, a spiral stair takes you from the ground floor courtyard to the roof and a kickback stair takes you from the ground floor to the third floor. The volumes are enclosed, released, and partitioned by a series of transparent and opaque walls. The walls move from the interior to the exterior allowing us to experience the nature of nature.

Bio
Bill Prices' career has spanned three decades, during which time he has practiced and produced work in eleven different countries. He has practiced professionally in Switzerland and the Netherlands, where he spent four years with OMA/Rem Koolhaas. There he acted as Research and Development Director and saw the Villa Bordeaux (Time Magazine called this house the most important private residence of the twentieth century") through to completion. Bill collaborated with Ai Weiwei in China, after which Ai Weiwei picked Bill's work to include in Phaidon's 10 x 10-3 Monograph.