As part of the Young Architects Support Program (YAP) with the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), MoMA PS1 holds an annual creative competition, the winner of which gets the right to build a summer temporary pavilion in an empty and uncomfortable courtyard of the center. There are several conditions: first, the author must disclose in his work the topic of sustainable innovative development; second, to organize a comfortable resting place in an urban setting, offering visitors shade, seating and water; thirdly, to create a spectacular platform for the summer Warm Up music festival.
This year, 25 projects were submitted for the competition, of which five finalists were selected. Their work can be seen until September 5, 2015 at a special exhibition at MoMA. The winner from among the finalists was determined by a professional jury: the project COSMO by Andrés Jaque and his bureau
Office for Political Innovation.
The Spanish-American architect addressed the problem of the lack of clean water: according to statistics released by the United Nations, by 2025, almost a third of the world's population will face this disaster. As if exposing a part of the city sewage system, Andres Jacques created a movable biomechanical structure that softens, cleans from harmful impurities and enriches with oxygen almost 12,000 liters of water at a time. The process takes about 4 days, after which the water goes through the next cycle of purification. When the water in the system becomes clear, the central part of the structure automatically starts to glow, becoming a bright dynamic decoration for a music party. It is in such a somewhat frivolous form that the architect put on his attempt to start a conversation about the global problem facing humanity. The pavilion in the courtyard of the MoMA PS1 Center for Contemporary Art will remain open until September 6, 2015.
