Elevation 4 131 overall 3 180 of stone Top at 849 Hatch 287 × 302
Assembly drawing — 23 sheets
Take the stone off and this is what is holding it.
Stone 3 180 × 506 mm, top at 849
Materials Dark marble, steel, brass, concealed LED
Drawing Room 118, November 2023 01 3 180 × 849 mm
A boulder, hung on a wall Three thousand one hundred and eighty millimetres of stone, cantilevered off a wall four metres wide and just under four high, with its top at 849 — ordinary washbasin height. Nothing under it reaches the floor. That is the whole illusion, and everything else on this page exists to hold it up.
02 Sheets 13–14, 21
The only surface with no straight line on it The face is split, not cut. It runs the full width without a joint, and the drawing does not dimension it anywhere — there is nothing on it a dimension could hold onto. What you are looking at here is a reading of the photographs, not a scan: the shape of the break is right, the break itself is not the one in the room.
03 Six plates
Underneath, it is a stack The underside is not carved out of the same block. It is six separate plates, each cut to the same contour at a slightly smaller scale than the one in front of it, hung one behind the other. Step to the side and the rock stops being a rock and becomes a section through a landscape.
04 Sheets 11, 19
The light is in the gaps There is no fitting anywhere on the piece. The light sits in the space between one plate and the next, facing the plate behind it, so what you see is stone with light on it rather than a lamp with stone around it. On sheet 11 the note beside it is still a question: LED outlets?
05 349 / 1 000 / 327 / 264
One plane, cut once The top is a single honed surface, and everything that happens at a washbasin happens inside one long inset cut into it: a tray, the basin, a shelf for the dispenser, and two lids with holes through them. Four zones, set out end to end, and not one of them interrupts the edge of the stone.
06 2 161 mm
Made to the wall, not bought to fit it The mirror is drawn as one custom sheet, two thousand one hundred and sixty-one millimetres high, set into the cladding with a metal frame standing proud of it and a line of light hidden behind the return on all four sides. In the photographs it is holding the window from the other side of the room.
07 Sheets 16–19
Six tubes, floor to ceiling None of this is fixed to the wall. Six steel uprights run from the concrete floor to the ceiling behind the cladding, tied by rails, and the cladding is fixed to them — so the stone is carried by a frame that is itself carried by the building, and the wall behind it is doing nothing at all.
08 Sheets 17–20
Bolted from underneath Six brackets hang off the middle rail, and the stone sits on them. The drawing comes back to the same fixing on four separate sheets, always with the same note: the bolt goes up through the bracket into the underside of the stone. It is the one fixing on the piece that could ever be undone, and you would have to be lying on the floor to reach it.
09 287 × 302 mm
One panel of stone lifts A trap has to be reachable. So one panel in the bottom course is not fixed: it runs on two guides and lifts, and behind it is a niche with the trap in it, on the same centreline as the drain above. Closed, it is a joint in the stone. That is the whole of the maintenance access on a wall of solid marble.
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Finished Section
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