The elevator has become the one part of the station that everything emanates from, in spite of not existing in the original plan. I have seized upon that change and emphasized the elevator as an element of form by giving it a different surface - yellow chromatic plate - and an optical, wry-looking tile-pattern, which gives the huge elevator an unstable fundation. The spirals out of the wall and the ring-pattern, "holes", in the floor, generates from the elevators field of force.
The mosaic figures originally were different laboratory animals (monkey, cat, frog, rabbit). They would have been teleported from the ticket-hall to different destinations in the metro system. These early experiments failed, and the walls of the ramp are covered with fragmentised animals. Only one animal, a frog, is discernible. The rest of the walls are decorated with shapes looking like fire-balls or tadpoles, streaming out to the platform. 
 

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