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"Party Wall" wins MOMA Young Architects award

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The New York based design team at CODA has won this year’s Young Architects Program (YAP) prize awarded by the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 (Image: CODA)
The Party Wall will feature as part of the temporary urban landscape for the 2013 “Warm Up” summer music series in MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard in New York (Image: CODA)
An exploded view of the installations steel angled frame and recycled skateboard skin (Image: CODA)
CODA demonstrate how the design wll react to its context and evolve into the installation that will perform on the MoMA PS1 site (Image: CODA)
120 panels can be detached from the vertical structure to form benches and tables that can used for various scenarios (Image: CODA)
The wall spells out its function as part of its design (Image: CODA)
Water ducted via the third floor of the PS1 building will replenish a series of pools and refreshing cooling stations through a gravity-operated system (Image: CODA)
CODA will clad the frame using manufacturing off-cuts from ecological Ithaca-based company Comet Skateboards (Image: CODA)
MOMA PS1 has been hosting a YAP installation in their courtyard for fourteen years and the latest offering will open in late June (Image: CODA)
The Party Wall will be ballasted by water bladders called “pillows” which will be filled on site and lit up at night to give the entire structure a luminous glow (Image: CODA)
The New York based design team at CODA has won this year’s Young Architects Program (YAP) prize awarded by the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 (Image: CODA)
The installation will provide shifting shaded areas for music enthusiasts by using a vertical steel structure in contrast to traditional horizontal shading (Image: CODA)
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The New York based design team at CODA has won this year’s Young Architects Program (YAP) prize awarded by the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1. CODA's Caroline O’Donnell submitted the winning “Party Wall” proposal – a freestanding pavilion and "flexible experimental space" which uses water filled fabric containers for ballast and is clad in off-cuts from the manufacture of skateboards.

The competition brief challenged emerging architectural talent to develop "creative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that provides shade, seating, and water." Environmental issues such as sustainability and recycling must also be considered in the designs.

The Party Wall installation will provide shifting shaded areas for music enthusiasts by using a vertical steel structure in contrast to traditional horizontal shading. The freestanding structure that will be ballasted by water bladders suspended on the inside. These bladders are called “pillows” which will be filled on site and lit up at night to give the entire structure a luminous glow.

The frame will be clad using manufacturing off-cuts from eco-friendly, Ithaca-based skateboard manufacturer Comet. Dubbed "bones," these off-cuts will be woven together to form an imperfect and porous facade.

The Party Wall will be ballasted by water bladders called “pillows” which will be filled on site and lit up at night to give the entire structure a luminous glow (Image: CODA)

A shallow stage of reclaimed wood will be featured around the base of the wall, whilst 120 panels can be detached from the vertical structure to form benches and tables that can used for various scenarios: "not only the pool party, the dance party and some architectural tourists, it can also accommodate lectures, classes, discussions, dining, performances, film screenings and even, perhaps, a wedding," says CODA.

The wall spells out its function as part of its design (Image: CODA)

The wall spells out its function as part of its design when viewed from the outside, but the interior will serve as an aqueduct for the MOMA PS1 visitors. Water ducted via the third floor of the PS1 building will replenish a series of pools and cooling stations through a gravity-operated system. A stream of water will flow along the top of the wall and be projected out into a fountain that feeds the pools and a misting station using a pressure-tank. Like the movable benches and tables from the Party Wall skin, the pools can be adapted and covered according to function.

The installation will provide shifting shaded areas for music enthusiasts by using a vertical steel structure in contrast to traditional horizontal shading (Image: CODA)

Located in Long Island City, MOMA PS1 has been hosting a YAP installation at in its courtyard for fourteen years. The latest offering is set to open in late June and will feature as part of the temporary urban landscape for the 2013 “Warm Up” music series.

The other finalists for this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program were: Leong Architects (New York, NY, Dominic Leong, Chris Leong); Moorhead & Moorhead (New York, NY, Granger Moorhead, Robert Moorehead); TempAgency (Charlottesville, VA, and Brooklyn, NY, Leena Cho, Rychlee Espinosa, Matthew Jull, Seth McDowell); and French 2D (Boston, MA, and Syracuse, NY, Anda French, Jenny French).

Sources: CODA, MOMA PS1

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2 comments
vaidk
Its the same concept as the Old Hawa Mehal in Jaipur India, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawa_Mahal except the Hawa mehal did not have any swimming pool.
Garrett Ross
So how many cut outs would be needed to clad this structure? From the look it would take thousands, and how is that considered sustainable, using a canvas or some other fabric would have been better, wind could go thru it, cutting aerodynamic load and cutting a huge amount off structural load. Do they just give these awards away?