Every summer the Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center jointly present The Young Architects Program (YAP) - an annual series of competitions giving emerging architects the opportunity to conceive and build projects for P.S.1’s facility in Long Island City, Queens. BIG and e-Types are the first Danish team ever to be invited.
The objective of the competition is to provide visitors with an outdoor recreational area for the summer—a much-needed refuge in the dense urban tropics of NYC—making best use of P.S.1´s pre-existing space and available materials.
The solution proposed by BIG and e-Types consists of a giant installation called ”Cloud” – an impressive inflatable landscape designed to be both cost-efficient and in tune with the “Re-cycle / Re-use” theme of this years competition by recycling the installation into unique numbered bags once its torn down.
We are pleased to announce that Cloud made it as a runner-up as an entry that according to the jury ”swept them off their feet”.However, finally the jury chose a proposal from the New York based SO-IL (Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu) as the winner 2010.
Read more about BIG and e-Types’ project at archdaily.com
The objective of the competition is to provide visitors with an outdoor recreational area for the summer—a much-needed refuge in the dense urban tropics of NYC—making best use of P.S.1´s pre-existing space and available materials.
The solution proposed by BIG and e-Types consists of a giant installation called ”Cloud” – an impressive inflatable landscape designed to be both cost-efficient and in tune with the “Re-cycle / Re-use” theme of this years competition by recycling the installation into unique numbered bags once its torn down.
We are pleased to announce that Cloud made it as a runner-up as an entry that according to the jury ”swept them off their feet”.However, finally the jury chose a proposal from the New York based SO-IL (Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu) as the winner 2010.
Read more about BIG and e-Types’ project at archdaily.com
