<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>VERTICAL PARK IN THE ATRIUM Fulton St. Transportation Center, New York NY 2004 Inside the cone, a new surface rises beside the existent surface. This new surface is curved opposite to the curve of the existent shell: it’s the mirror image of the shell, it makes a concave to the convex of the shell. The new surface joins with the shell at the top to make a kind of torus; the space in-between is like the inside of a donut. The outside of the new surface makes a funnel that comes down from the ceiling, swoops through the height of the atrium, and hangs overhead, like a bell. It’s a mix of transparent glass and mirror, its curve is warped and re-shaped, to bring as much light as possible down from the glass ceiling above down into the subway platforms to the side. A ramp takes you up, as if through the inside of a donut, into the space between the new surface and the existent shell. The joining of the two shells makes a park, a vertical park, a park that lines the edge of the building on one side and the edge of the atrium on the other. Through holes in the ramp trees extend up, hanging plants and waterfalls flow down. At the bottom of the shell, at the corner of Broadway and Fulton, the new surface bulges out between the louvered terra-cotta walls; you walk into the park over the street. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/fulton_street/index.html">Fulton Street Transportation Center Atrium</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/2004/index.html">2004</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Atria/index.html">Atria</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Buildings/index.html">Buildings</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Circle-Spiral/index.html">Circle-Spiral</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Dar%C3%ADo%20N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez/index.html">Darío Núñez</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Eduardo%20Marques/index.html">Eduardo Marques</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Fulton%20Street%20Atrium/index.html">Fulton Street Atrium</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Parks%20and%20Gardens/index.html">Parks and Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Peter%20Dorsey/index.html">Peter Dorsey</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Transparent-Translucent/index.html">Transparent-Translucent</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/Unbuilt/index.html">Unbuilt</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="../../img/197/1.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/197/1.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/197/1.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>