<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>1</h2> <p>ROOF LIKE A LIQUID FLUNG OVER THE PLAZA Center For The Performing Arts, Memphis TN, 2001-2003 Stainless steel (mirrored, perforated), fluorescent light 4,784 sq. ft. A swathe of something—it could almost be a liquid—swoops out from under the glass overhang above the entrance to the building. It’s as if a liquid has been flung out from under, and frozen in the air. The liquid is solidified into a gob, a glob, a blob that functions as a roof—a far-flung roof—over the plaza. The roof is mirrored, above and below; it’s an instrument that transfers the site, and transmits the site: the surroundings are formed, and transformed, into a roof. The roof is pulled up to make a funnel: sunlight shoots down across the plaza, like the spotlights on-stage inside the Performing Arts Center The roof is pulled down to make columns. At the bottom, the structure is built out into a ring of seats; the pavement below is reflected up onto the roof above you—outside the column, it’s as if you’re sitting inside the ground. The surface parts into an arch: you can enter the column, the surface folds up to make seats inside. Inside the column, you’re outside; the wall that circles around you reflects the sky. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/memphis/index.html">Memphis Performing Arts Center Plaza</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/2004/index.html">2004</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Buildings/index.html">Buildings</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Built/index.html">Built</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Clusters/index.html">Clusters</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Dar%C3%ADo%20N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez/index.html">Darío Núñez</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Gia%20Wolff/index.html">Gia Wolff</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Lights/index.html">Lights</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Memphis%20Performing%20Arts%20Center%20Plaza/index.html">Memphis Performing Arts Center Plaza</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Peter%20Dorsey/index.html">Peter Dorsey</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Push%20and%20Pull/index.html">Push and Pull</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Reflective/index.html">Reflective</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Sky/index.html">Sky</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Stephen%20Roe/index.html">Stephen Roe</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Streets%20and%20Plazas/index.html">Streets and Plazas</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Tube-Tunnel-Funnel/index.html">Tube-Tunnel-Funnel</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Twist-Warp-Morph/index.html">Twist-Warp-Morph</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/United%20States/index.html">United States</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="http://studio.stamen.com/acconci/dev/img/150/MEM12_S%20copy.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/150/MEM12_S.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/150/MEM12_S.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>