<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>section_longitudinal</h2> <p>MUR ISLAND Graz, Austria 2003 Engineers: Zenckner &amp; Handl; Kurt Kratzer Contractors: SFL A twist in the river, a node in the river: the node is an island. The island is a circulation-route: a dome that morphs into a bowl that morphs into a dome. The bowl functions as a theater. Bleachers wave in and out; when the bowl isn’t used as a theater, it’s a plaza -- you sit face-to-face, in everyday conversation. The dome functions as a café/restaurant. The entrance canopy twists down to make lounge seats around the dome. Curved triangular tables and stools are movable; they’re joined together, for different-sized groups of people. The rubber edge of the terrace above twists down to make multiple bar counters, at different heights. Water pours down the shell of the dome; up on the terrace, you sit under a waterfall. The warping of dome into bowl, and vice versa, forms a playground, a space frame that functions as monkey bars, a tubular slide cuts through the grid. Functions are mixed on this island: the playground doubles as the backdrop of the stage and as a wall and ceiling. Light streams up from beneath the bleachers, in the bowl, and down from the roof structure, in the dome. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/mur_island/index.html">Mur Island</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/2003/index.html">2003</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Austria/index.html">Austria</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Bridges/index.html">Bridges</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/Circulation%20Routes/index.html">Circulation Routes</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Dar%C3%ADo%20N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez/index.html">Darío Núñez</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Inside-Out/index.html">Inside-Out</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Islands/index.html">Islands</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Loop/index.html">Loop</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Mix-Swarm-Multitude/index.html">Mix-Swarm-Multitude</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Mur%20Island/index.html">Mur Island</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Peter%20Dorsey/index.html">Peter Dorsey</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Playgrounds/index.html">Playgrounds</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Restaurants/index.html">Restaurants</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/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/Watersides-Outlands/index.html">Watersides-Outlands</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="../../img/232/GZ_sect_longitudinal.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/232/GZ_sect_longitudinal.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/232/GZ_sect_longitudinal.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>