Brooklyn based studio, Interboro Partners, have won this years MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program, a competition with the aim of designing a temporary installation in PS1’s courtyard in 2011. The architect’s describe the project as:
“Holding Pattern” is the product of a sustained dialog with MoMA PS1’s courtyard and its neighbours. Instead of telling it what it should be, we patiently listened to what it and its neighbours had to say, then responded in kind. The result of this dialog is a scheme doesn’t so much redesign the courtyard as reveal it.Time and circumstance had its way with MoMA PS1’s courtyard, which in an ideal world would be shaped like a rectangle but which is in reality an irregular seven-sided polygon. “Holding Pattern” reveals this situation by stringing ropes from holes in MoMA PS1’s concrete wall to the parapet across the courtyard. In the same way that Hugh Ferris reveals the potential of New York City’s 1916 zoning code by drawing the theoretical building envelope, we reveal the very odd, idiosyncratic space of the courtyard and simultaneously create an inexpensive and column-free space for the activity below. From the ground, the experience is of a soaring hyperboloid surface.
