Hasta La Ideas

Per its progressive mission, the Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 is a perennial celebration of experimental urban architecture, a design-build complement to their beloved summer event series Warm-Up. Each year for over a decade now, the contemporary art space has solicited proposals for a temporary ‘pavilion’ in the enclosed schoolyard space, selecting a winner from the five finalists. Earlier this week, they announced that CODA‘s Party Wall had been selected over proposals by Leong Leong, Moorehead & Moorehead, TempAgency and French 2D [Note: we also covered last year’s winner].

The Ithaca, New York-based firm’s design is a three-story tall structure that spans much of the length of the courtyard, a freestanding steel scaffolding that is bedecked, in a manner of speaking, with offcuts from fellow eco-minded, Ithaca-based company Comet Skateboards. “Byproducts of Comet Skateboards’ manufacturing process, called “bones,” are woven together to form an imperfect and porous façade using off-the-shelf hardware.”

Party Wall sits on a low, stage-like platform—made from the extant VW Dome in the courtyard—which also serves to connect the multiple outdoor spaces of the schoolyard. The movable benches (also “prototyped using the uncut but misprinted bones”) can be configured for various scenarios: “not only the pool party, the dance party and some architectural tourists [but also] lectures, classes, discussions, dining, performances, film screenings and even, perhaps, a wedding.”

Full description from CODA after the jump…

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