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"The Matrix" has become something of a cult film in the architecture community; more than one award submission was directly inspired by its imagery. In this project, a stairway and its supporting wall bend and fold, recalling the movie’s freeze-frame sequence of actor Keanu Reeves contorting his body to dodge bullets. The bright red wall is represented as reacting to the motion of the stairs climbing along its side and going through it, with the tear in the wall occurring at the landing. The upper run of stairs rises at a steeper incline than the lower (the treads are 11 inches deep versus 22 inches). The wall folds back in two places to respond to the rising handrail. The stair reinforces the idea that architecture is dynamic, creating constant shifts of perspective as a person moves through space.
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