Escobedo Soliz Studio, a team of five finalists from this year's winner, will be creating the "Weaving the Courtyard" for MoMA PS1 this summer.
From the name itself, the project involves weaving. This summer art installation will be made up of a string of a textured canopy hanging above the Long Island City courtyard, or a "cloud" out of contrasting yet colorful ropes.
This will be a lively-colored canopy, which will provide cover to the assembled crowd. A wading pool will also be built in the courtyard to aid the hot summer days.
Andres Solíz and Lazbent Pavel Escobedo proposed the installation for this year's edition of the Young Architects Program.
The courtyard's concrete wall has existing holes that were created when they were cast. The architects are planning to use these holes as the base for the woven canopy.
The installation, as claimed by Escobedo and Solíz, will be "neither an object nor a sculpture standing in the courtyard, but a series of simple, powerful actions that generate new and different atmospheres." It will serve as a backdrop for the summer music program of the gallery, called the Warm Up sessions.
All the materials used for the installation will be reusable once removed after the summer since it will be highly unaltered during the construction process.
"This year's finalists of the Young Architects Program explored a range of approaches, materials, and scales to effectively question the MoMA PS1 courtyard as an arena for escape," said Sean Anderson, MoMA's associate curator of architecture and design.
"Escobedo Solíz's ingenious proposal speaks to both the ephemerality of architectural imagery today but also to the nature of spatial transactions more broadly," he added. "From the evocative woven canopy that will engage visitors overhead to a reflective wading pool, Weaving the Courtyard sensitively brings together elements of MoMA PS1's Warm Up Series with an exuberant collection of zones and environments."
