A couple of days ago the MoMA officially announced the winners of P.S. 1′s Young Architects Program: Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO-IL). Their project, Pole Dance, is an “interconnected system of poles and bungees whose equilibrium is open to human action and environmental factors.”
Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA, sums it up the best: “Pole Dance is a brilliant – playful and sincere at once – response to our increasingly virtual world of social media and computer screen games. For a season, with simple materials and elegant engineering, the P.S.1 courtyard is converted into an occupiable game and social zone with many of the markers of the virtual world realized in elements that partake of the traditional playground or gym. Here the net is literal and physical, the space tangible, the encounters unprogrammable. Yet the system is dynamic and interactive and – in the spirit of this year’s call for a response to contemporary issues of sustainability – all the materials can be reused and redeployable.”
For more: AD: SO-IL wins P.S.1 competition or read the MoMA’s press release.
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