<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>01</h2> <p>MOBILE LINEAR CITY 1991 A city stored in a truck: six housing units telescoped into one, a semi-trailer hooked up to a tractor. When the truck is parked, a line of housing-units can be pulled out of the trailer. Fold down the legs of the smallest unit, drive the truck forward, fold down the legs of the next unit, etc. The houses are sheathed in corrugated steel, cut into sections that can hinge down inside and out. A gangplank folds down to make a doorway, a ladder folds down from the gangplank. Inside each house, wall panels pivot down to make a table, a bench, a bed, a shelf. The last unit, the smallest unit, functions as a service unit for the entire community of houses. Wall panels hinge down to uncover a stove, a refrigerator, a toilet. Wall panels fold in vertically, making shower stalls, and a stall around the toilet. The end wall folds down to make a back porch; a ladder folds down for access to the services of this city. The floor of each unit are steel grating; underneath, a fluorescent light at the back of each house casts light up from below, across the floor. (The city is public; people can walk underneath each unit, and look up from below – unless the inhabitant intervenes and lays a rug down on the floor. The more you use the service unit, the less private it becomes; you can fold down a wall, for example, and use the toilet it provides, but now your ass is exposed to the world outside.) </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/mobile_linear_city/index.html">Mobile Linear City</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/1991/index.html">1991</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Adjustable-Adaptable-Convertible/index.html">Adjustable-Adaptable-Convertible</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Built/index.html">Built</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Capsules/index.html">Capsules</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Expanding-Contracting/index.html">Expanding-Contracting</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Luis%20Vera/index.html">Luis Vera</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Mobile%20Linear%20City/index.html">Mobile Linear City</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Modules/index.html">Modules</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Move-Change/index.html">Move-Change</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Parasite-Virus/index.html">Parasite-Virus</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Portables-Vehicles/index.html">Portables-Vehicles</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Services/index.html">Services</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Telescoping/index.html">Telescoping</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="../../img/62/01_S.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/62/01_S.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/62/01_S.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>