MASS Design Group, Bottle Service.

As we announced last week, Brooklyn office Interboro was selected from the shortlist to complete their proposal for PS1/MoMA’s Young Architects Program. For myriad reasons, some people are unhappy about the jury’s decision. It’s not surprising, considering that each of the young offices are local, involved, and count a fiercely loyal following.

Capitalizing on the inevitable controversy is Archinect — the site is running a “People’s Choice Awards,” allowing you to vote on who you think should have won the competition. It looks like only one shortlisted office –MATTER Practice — declined to participate in the alternate poll-based competition. Click through to see three of the entries that weren’t selected for the Program this year.

MASS Design Group, Bottle Service.

From the architects: “Bottle Service, captures that summer impulse to cool off by activating the senses of the subaquatic and urban refreshment. Beneath a stream of seemingly floating and frozen forms, Bottle Service is an urban menagerie, a refracted surface, a transformative plunge unique only to this courtyard, to this borough, to this moment… Bottle Service shows architecture as an investment in communities. Creating not only added economic and social value, our proposal proves that the socially engaged and the architecturally progressive are not independent, but one and the same.”

FormlessFinder, Bag Pile.

From the architects: “Bag pile provides an opportunity for visitors to lose the courtyard and immerse themselves in a new world, exploring spaces that range from large collective interiors designed specifically for the Warm Up events to small, intimate spaces perfect for individual occupation on a summer day. And because these spaces are crated with lose materials, the project remains dynamic, never fixed into a final form. Bag Pile thus offers not only a depth and variety of experience not yet seen in the PS1 YAP but a radically new understanding of the relationship between architectural space, material, and form.”

IJP Corporation Architects, Ghost House.

From the architects: “GhostHouse is a light-weight installation with a counter-intuitive material structure exuding an aura of mystery and wonder. 97% of the proposal is simply rope. GhostHouse is about domesticity. It expresses the tension in our minds between the bustling excitement of the contemporary spaces we live in, and our persistent yearning for a log cabin in the woods — a timeless, traditional house.”

Interboro Partners, Holding Pattern (winner).

We want to hear what you think. Based on the renderings, which design do you think would best fit the courtyard at P.S.1?

by Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

posted in Competition Debate

tagged awards, competitions, ps1, PS1/MoMA, summer warm up, young architects program

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