<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_s</h2> <p>A COURTYARD IN THE WIND Munich, Germany 1997 - 2000 High affects low -- the building affects the landscape -- the tower changes the courtyard. The tower holds up a sensor, a system of feelers, a set of tentacles. Propped up on the tower, like the propeller of a helicopter, is a wind-wheel, a wind turbine. Down below, inside the courtyard, a ring is cut into the landscape, separating one circular band of ground from the rest of the landscape. The separated ring of ground is a turntable, with a built-in track that fits over a circle of wheels below the ground. The turbine up on the tower generates electricity for a set of motors down in the courtyard, under the ring of landscape: powered by the turbine, the ring of landscape rotates The ring of landscape moves slowly, it’s just barely moving, two revolutions every hour, the landscape moves less than one centimeter per second. When you stand near the building, at the edge of the courtyard, you see a tree ‘here’ – you turn awayt, you look again, and now it’s ‘there.’ As you walk across the lawn, you feel the earth move – slowly, softly – under your feet -- as the world turns, you’re turned. As the turbine generates electricity to power the landscape below, it generates its own light- Source. It’s night; above you, light glows up from the top of the tower, up toward the sky. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/courtyard_in_the_wind/index.html">Courtyard In The Wind</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/2000/index.html">2000</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/Celia%20Imrey/index.html">Celia Imrey</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Circle-Spiral/index.html">Circle-Spiral</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Courtyard%20In%20The%20Wind/index.html">Courtyard In The Wind</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Dar%C3%ADo%20N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez/index.html">Darío Núñez</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Germany/index.html">Germany</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Luis%20Vera/index.html">Luis Vera</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Move-Change/index.html">Move-Change</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Parks%20and%20Gardens/index.html">Parks and Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Streets%20and%20Plazas/index.html">Streets and Plazas</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Wind/index.html">Wind</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="../../img/49/3_s.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/49/3_s.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/49/3_s.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>