{"id":48165,"date":"2014-06-08T08:01:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T06:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/graz-artarchitecture-mur-island\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T12:14:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T10:14:58","slug":"graz-artarchitecture-mur-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/graz-artarchitecture-mur-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Graz art\/architecture – Mur Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

A twist in the river, a node in the river, a circulation-route in the river. The node is an island; it\u2019s a dome that twists into a bowl that twists into a dome. The bowl functions as a theater. Bleachers wave in and out; when the bowl isn\u2019t used as a theater, it\u2019s a plaza — you sit face-to-face, in everyday conversation. The dome functions as a caf\u00e9\/restaurant. The entrance canopy twists down to make lounge seating around the dome. Curved triangular tables and stools are movable; they\u2019re 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 for the cafe. Light streams up from beneath the bleachers, in the bowl, and down from the roof structure, in the dome.<\/p>\n