Floors offer a surprising range of expressive opportunities. Not all floors are flat; some can extend beyond the building to form part of a raised platform. An example of when floors are used to help glorify certain pieces of architecture is in the Castelvecchio in Verona. Carlo Scarpa, the architect, designed the floors in a certain way so that the interventions appear to float in the room. Le Corbusier loved to mess with his floors as well especially in his pilgrimage chapel at Ronchamp, but in this scenario the floors were simply used to help enclose a space and provide a foundation above Mother Earth.
With Industrialization and the overall human population progressing, there is now a universal design that demands floors to be flat, horizontal, and free of frequent stepped changes of level. I don’t really like that “universal design” because I feel all parts of an architect’s building should be free-flowing if he feels so, and that one shouldn’t be confined to the simplicity of a blank, horizontal floor canvas. The floor should have life and give meaning either to it, the ground it covers, or even the room it is enclosed in.
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