NANCY HOLT, SUN TUNNELS, LUCIN, UT (USA) 1976 - herearchitecture.com

NANCY HOLT, SUN TUNNELS, LUCIN, UT (USA) 1976

NANCY HOLT, SUN TUNNELS, LUCIN, UT (USA) 1976

N. HOLT, LUCIN: “TUNNELS RELAYED GREAT BASIN DESERT”

N. HOLT, LUCIN: “TUNNEL OPEN TO THE SUN SOLSTICE, SMALL HOLES OPEN TO STARS COSTELLATION”

N. HOLT, LUCIN: “THE DIAMETERS OF THE HOLES DIFFER IN RELATION TO THE MAGNITUDE OF THE STARS ALIGNED”

N. HOLT, LUCIN: “CONCRETE MAN MADE SET FREE TO THE LAND”

N. HOLT, LUCIN:” ALWAYS ACCESSIBLE”

N. HOLT, LUCIN: “TELESCOPE TO HORIZON”

N. HOLT, LUCIN:”TUNNELS LANDED TO A LEVEL AND EMPTY SITE”

concrete tunnels each 18 feet long and nine feet in diameter, open X configuration total a length of 86 feet (26 m) arranged to follow the sun as it passes the horizon at sunrise and sunset during the solstices

"It’s an inversion of the sky/ground relationship-bringing the sky down to the earth." N. Holt, 1988