Belly Yup
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A colorful meeting place
Located at the trailhead for the 7th–10th Street segment of the Cross Charlotte Trail in Charlotte, N.C., Matthew Geller’s public artwork Belly Yup is an interactive gathering space bathed in ambient light. The structure features 20 lenses made with laminated layers of glass and ten different Vanceva Color PVB interlayers.
Each lens comprises seven ½-inch round pieces of glass in diminishing diameters—from 279 mm to 77 mm. The glass is attached to a ¾-inch Corten steel canopy with Dow Corning 995 silicone.
The artwork becomes animated by people swaying on the suspended bench and the changing ambient light. It’s also seemingly frozen in a state of collapse—with bowed columns, a tilted canopy and unaligned layers of glass.
With people swaying on the bench and changes in ambient light and weather, Belly Yup is in a state of constant flux, becoming an iconic place at the trailhead to gather, interact and rest.
Vanceva™ Colors
The Vanceva colors interlayer system enhances the style of laminated safety glass like never before—combining color and white interlayers to produce more than 69,000 transparent, translucent, or solid colored glass combinations - creating just the right look and ambience. In fact, no other PVB interlayer system offers the ability to achieve the range of colors and varied translucency in glass that Vanceva does.
