Escalator Hall with Hanging Installation, Paris

4 October 2017 · Paris

Diagonal escalators cut through the frame while thousands of suspended steel rods cascade from the ceiling above — two systems of vertical and diagonal geometry sharing the same space, each making the other more legible. The interior of this contemporary Paris venue treats the transit moment as architecture in its own right: the escalator hall is not a corridor to the real thing but the thing itself. Warm artificial light catches the hanging rods mid-fall, turning a functional passageway into something closer to a kinetic installation.