<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>closeup</h2> <p>STRETCHING LIBRARY Guadalajara, Mexico, May 2005 See the sea, imagine a sea, in this land of heat and near-desert and big overwhelming sky. It’s the plaza here that takes the place of the sea. The surrounding buildings cause disturbances: the plaza is a sea of waves and ripples, alternating currents of pavement and greenery. Here and there a wave comes over you, to make a hovel, a workstation. You walk between ripples, over waves, into the whirlpool of the library; You spiral down the whirlpool, into the ground. This is the library of inaccessible books. You zigzag between shelves, in and out of shelves, dead-ends of shelves. At the bottom of the spiral down, as you continue walking you begin to spiral up. The library spurts up, like a geyser, from the depths of the whirlpool; this is the library of accessible books. If the space below ground is a labyrinth, the space coming up out of the ground is like an attic, a garage sale; the books are up for grabs here. Bumps of books, globes of books, like tiny worlds, like disco balls—not shelves but bundles, packets, of books: you’re in an air of books, you pass in-between books. As the library spirals up, it spirals out; books are dangerous, ideas run wild, there’s a world out there. This is a library on the loose and on the move; it curves over the highway and makes a bridge. (The library will reach out further as years go by. It can expand linearly: the tentacle stretches, tentacles grow out tentacles and squeeze in-between existent buildings. It can expand within itself: its curved façade bulges and swells as it spirals down and up.) </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/Guadalajara/index.html">Guadalajara Library</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/2005/index.html">2005</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/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/Guadalajara%20Library/index.html">Guadalajara Library</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Lights/index.html">Lights</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Mexico/index.html">Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Push%20and%20Pull/index.html">Push and Pull</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Streets%20and%20Plazas/index.html">Streets and Plazas</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Stretch-Overlap-Tentacles%20and%20Feelers/index.html">Stretch-Overlap-Tentacles and Feelers</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Transparent-Translucent/index.html">Transparent-Translucent</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Unbuilt/index.html">Unbuilt</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Wave-Ripple-Flow/index.html">Wave-Ripple-Flow</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="../../img/432/closeup01.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/432/closeup01.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/432/closeup01.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>