British artist Cornelia Parker has created an installation based on the mansion from Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho for this year's Roof Garden commission at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (+ slideshow).
The site-specific Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) initially appears like a real house, but is actually made up of two facades propped up by scaffolding.

It is located on top of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, also known as The Met, which sits in New York's Central Park.
The domestic style of the false dwelling is intended to contrast with the backdrop of Manhattan's soaring skyscrapers.

"When I saw the roof and the skyline, I knew I wanted to make something architectural," Parker told Dezeen. "I wanted to add something incongruous to the view." Parker's references for the folly included paintings by US artist Edward Hopper and classic red barns typical of rural America, as well as the sinister mansion from Hitchcock's 1960 thriller.
In the film, the house is home to the family of Norman Bates ? a psychotic murderer who lived their with his domineering, deceased mother.

"I read that the Psycho house was based on Hopper's House by the Railroad, so the red barn and the Psycho house became merged," Parker told Dezeen.
"The Psycho house was all about evil and emotional baggage, and the barn is the opposite ? it's all about wholesomeness."

She assembled the 30-foot structure with materials from a dismantled red barn in upst...