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Acid Ball
Acid Ball
Bellingham, WA, United States
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Acid Ball
Bellingham, WA, United States
Firm
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2017
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
The former 30-foot diameter steel sphere Acid Ball Accumulator at the Georgia Pacific Factory in Bellingham, Washington will be transformed into an art piece within a new park at the former site in 2017. Mutuus Studio’s winning proposal found beauty in its inherent form by celebrating and transmuting it into a beacon, marking the past and drawing a line to the future. “Waypoint” is the title for the piece as we seek to acknowledge both its history and its new life.
Our concept authentically represents the industrial character of the artifact by maintaining its integrity of the existing shape and form. We asked ourselves, “What is the smallest biggest move we can make?”
We took a restrained approach with one MACRO move at an urban scale, and one MICRO move at a molecular scale.
MACRO:
By repositioning the ball to the water’s edge, it becomes a beacon from land and water. The new location draws people into the site to explore and approach the artifact connecting it to both to the City and the maritime history.
MICRO:
We pay homage to the Acid Ball’s historic industrial past, by using an industrial coating in a new way. When we thought of a durable, low maintenance, vandal and weather resistant coating - what could be more appropriate than a coating used for highways and roads? We began experiments with high index reflective glass traffic coatings and we were mesmerized by the way the light bounced and interacted with the environment around it. Each day a new experience - the sunlight, rain, evening flashlights we found this material to be magical and our team recognized that this coating alone could transform the Acid Ball into a beacon.
Our concept authentically represents the industrial character of the artifact by maintaining its integrity of the existing shape and form. We asked ourselves, “What is the smallest biggest move we can make?”
We took a restrained approach with one MACRO move at an urban scale, and one MICRO move at a molecular scale.
MACRO:
By repositioning the ball to the water’s edge, it becomes a beacon from land and water. The new location draws people into the site to explore and approach the artifact connecting it to both to the City and the maritime history.
MICRO:
We pay homage to the Acid Ball’s historic industrial past, by using an industrial coating in a new way. When we thought of a durable, low maintenance, vandal and weather resistant coating - what could be more appropriate than a coating used for highways and roads? We began experiments with high index reflective glass traffic coatings and we were mesmerized by the way the light bounced and interacted with the environment around it. Each day a new experience - the sunlight, rain, evening flashlights we found this material to be magical and our team recognized that this coating alone could transform the Acid Ball into a beacon.
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