<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>PARK UP A BUILDING 1996 PROGRAM: A portable park adaptable to a blank wall of any building. ORIGINAL SITE: Alvaro Siza’s museum building, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Campostela, Spain. PROJECT: 9 pairs of telescoping tubes, U-shaped at one end and L-shaped at the other. The U-shaped ends hook onto the parapet of the building; from the L-shaped ends, one module of a park is suspended on threaded rod. 2 types of park-module alternate: a floor with a seat on opposite sides, inside and outside; and a floor with a seat on the inside and a tree on the outside. A connector, a step, joins one module to another. The floor, the seat and the step are metal grating – you can look up through them; the tree is enclosed within a metal grate, its roots encased in burlap sack it was transported in. A light from beneath each floor illuminates the park. Each successive module is hung one step higher than the one before: as you walk through the park – as you walk from step to floor, between seat and seat and between seat and tree – you’re climbing up the side of the building. The tubes, the park-hangers, telescope down to 8-foot sections, so that they can be transported and adjusted to buildings of different heights. The PARK can be hung with its companion-unit, HOUSE UP A BUILDING, on different walls; or the PARK can be hung alone. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/park_up_a_building/index.html">Park Up A Building</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/1996/index.html">1996</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/Luis%20Vera/index.html">Luis Vera</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Modules/index.html">Modules</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Parasite-Virus/index.html">Parasite-Virus</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Park%20Up%20A%20Building/index.html">Park Up A Building</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Parks%20and%20Gardens/index.html">Parks and Gardens</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/Spain/index.html">Spain</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="../../img/90/01_S.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/90/01_S.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/90/01_S.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>