to hang. The anchoring rod does little; perhaps stabilising
the box against rocking. The sleight-of-hand in making the
building appear to be without support works in various ways.
At the open middle level the cylinder of the spiral stair is
clad in highly polished mirror-like stainless steel, reflecting
the landscape around reducing the cylinder’s appearance as a
structural column. The L-shaped structure is stepped out into
the grassy plateau at the top of the hill, and therefore appears
detached from the house itself. The only clearly visible piece
of structure within the house is the stanchion rising through
the lower two floors, and this appears, on the main living
floor, to be part of the book-stack that stands alongside the
moving platform. All these devices conspire to make it appear
as if the building has no support.