<h1><a href="../../index.html">Acconci Home</a></h1> <h2><a href="../../projects/index.html">All Projects</a></h2> <h2><a href="../../threads/index.html">All Threads</a></h2> <!--<h2><a href="/acconci/dev/views/">All Views</a></h2>--> <h2>7</h2> <p>TWISTING-PLANES PARK Gurtel Median, Vienna, Winter 2004 A twisting line of planes runs through the length of the median. They’re ellipsoid planes; each successive plane turns, shifts, further, from down to up to down again on the other side. The planes are ‘sandwiches’ of steel mesh, front and back; climbing plants grow inside, lights are embedded within the plants – light changes depending on the density of the foliage. These planes, these sandwiches of mesh, these 'cages' of climbing plants, are perforated; each hole is like a telescope, or a tunnel: you look through from smaller to larger holes, or vice versa – at some point you can walk through the holes – sometimes the hole is covered with mirror so, instead of seeing through, you look back at yourself. The holes get large enough to contain an ‘activity-area’: basketball court, soccer field, amphitheater. Ramps go through the holes, and take you up to different levels. As a ramp goes through a hole, spin-offs stretch out over the face of the plane: you walk over the face, you walk across a mesh of plants – it’s as if the plane of a park has been lifted up, it’s as if you’re walking on air, you sit in niches within the plants. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/vienna_gurtel/index.html">Gurtel Median Park</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/2005/index.html">2005</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Austria/index.html">Austria</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Circle-Spiral/index.html">Circle-Spiral</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Circulation%20Routes/index.html">Circulation Routes</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Eduardo%20Marques/index.html">Eduardo Marques</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Gurtel%20%20Median%20Park/index.html">Gurtel Median Park</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/In%20Development/index.html">In Development</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Parks%20and%20Gardens/index.html">Parks and Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Playgrounds/index.html">Playgrounds</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Rotate-Revolve/index.html">Rotate-Revolve</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Streets%20and%20Plazas/index.html">Streets and Plazas</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Theaters/index.html">Theaters</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Transparent-Translucent/index.html">Transparent-Translucent</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Twist-Warp-Morph/index.html">Twist-Warp-Morph</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Wind/index.html">Wind</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="../../img/114/VG_ampitheater2.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/114/VG_ampitheater2.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/114/VG_ampitheater2.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>