Prototype 180

Mary Ellen Carroll, prototype 180, 2010.

prototype 180[1] is an artwork by American conceptual artist Mary Ellen Carroll who lives and works in New York City and Houston. prototype 180 is "the centerpiece of Carroll's Innovation Territories, an initiative co-sponsored by the Rice University Building Institute.[2] prototype 180 is located at 6513 Sharpsview Drive, Houston.[3]Houston was self-selected itself as the site of the artwork because it lacks an official land-use policy.

The artwork "will make architecture performative."[4] It is literally a ground-shifting exercise, because it structurally involves the rotation, back to front, of a single-family, ranch-style house and its surrounding land in the development of Sharpstown, a suburb of Houston, Texas.[5]

Following the rotation, the structure will be retrofitted and rehabilitated to become an occupied structure that will be become an institute for the study of considered urbanism.[6] In planning for 10 years, prototype 180 is described as "reconsideration of monumentality that combines live performance, sculpture, architecture and technology."[7]


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External links

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/arts/design/arts-of-pacific-asia-show-rudolf-stingel-judith-linhares-mary-ellen-carroll-gianna-commito-reviews.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

References

  1. ↑ "http://www.prototype180.com/"
  2. ↑ "http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=13796"
  3. ↑ "http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/prototype-180-by-mary-ellen-carroll/"
  4. ↑ "http://artforum.com/words/id=23335"
  5. ↑ "http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/garden/07qna.html?_r=1"
  6. ↑ "http://artforum.com/words/id=23335"
  7. ↑ "http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=14815