<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>3</h2> <p>PROTOTYPE FOR A MODULAR LOUNGE Eyebeam, New York, NY 2002 If we begin with the structure of a place, then we’re working from the top down. Our wall, for example, would have to contain within it our seats, our tables, our shelves; our seats/tables/shelves would already have an order, would already have a place. So we start instead from the bottom up. Not the beach but grains of sand; the grains of sand might just as easily become concrete – the grains of sand might make a building as well as a landscape. Instead of structuring a place, instead of a system of building, we start by structuring a material, a fabric – we develop a system of material, a system of surface. Instead of structure that supports a surface, instead of a surface laid over a structure, we develop a principle of economy: a surface that functions as structure and, at the same time and in the same place, a structure that functions as surface. Bits of surface, like grains of sand, like fish-scales. Connectors between bits. The connectors are flexible, the bits are rigid; the bits are hard, the connectors soft. A system of connectors. The connectors are connected. The surface twists and turns: flexible’ the surface is tied and bound: load-bearing. From curved to flat and then from flat to curved, etc. Surface laid over surface, to make depth; surface bending and folding, to make structure. A surface you pull out, a surface that bulges, to make furniture. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/eyebeam/index.html">Eyebeam</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/2002/index.html">2002</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Adjustable-Adaptable-Convertible/index.html">Adjustable-Adaptable-Convertible</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Bend-Fold/index.html">Bend-Fold</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Braid-Knot-Weave/index.html">Braid-Knot-Weave</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Eyebeam%20Modular%20Lounge/index.html">Eyebeam Modular Lounge</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Grains-Particles-Bits/index.html">Grains-Particles-Bits</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Inside-Out/index.html">Inside-Out</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Move-Change/index.html">Move-Change</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Peter%20Dorsey/index.html">Peter Dorsey</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Prototype/index.html">Prototype</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Seating/index.html">Seating</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Stephen%20Roe/index.html">Stephen Roe</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Twist-Warp-Morph/index.html">Twist-Warp-Morph</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Unbuilt/index.html">Unbuilt</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/United%20States/index.html">United States</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Wave-Ripple-Flow/index.html">Wave-Ripple-Flow</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="../../img/190/lounge copy.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/190/lounge copy.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/190/lounge copy.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>