Summer might still be far away, but things are starting to heat up as a winner has been chosen to create the scenery for this year’s Warm Up series at MoMA PS1.
The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 in Long Island City selected David Benjamin from design firm The Living as the winner of the 15th annual Young Architects Program (YAP).
The winning project, called “Hy-Fi,” expected to open at MoMA PS1 in late June, was chosen from five finalists and will serve as a “temporary urban landscape” for the 2014 Warm Up summer music series, located in MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard.
“After dedicating the whole building and satellite programs of MoMA PS1 to ecological awareness and climate change last year with ‘EXPO 1: New York,’ we continue in 2014 with ‘Hy-Fi,’ a nearly zero carbon footprint construction by The Living,” said Klaus Biesenbach, MoMA PS1 director and MoMA chief curator at large.
Every year the winners develop creative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that would provide shade, seating and water to those who attend Warm Up. The architects also have to address environmental issues, such as sustainability and recycling.
The Living will create “Hy-Fi” using a new technique of bio-design that will assemble a structure made out of 100 percent organic material.
The structure is a circular tower made of organic and reflective bricks, produced from the combination of corn stalks and living root structures, invented by Ecovative, a company The Living is working with in the project.
“Hy-Fi” will also highlight local materials, and offer a direct relationship to New York State agriculture and innovation culture, city artists, nonprofits and community gardens in Queens.
“At MoMA PS1, The Living’s project will be showcased as a sensuous, primeval background for the Warm-Up sessions; the ideas and research behind it, however, will live on to fulfill ever new uses and purposes,” said Pedro Gadanho, curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design.
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