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GREEN PARTY AT MOMA PS1
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An eco-Friendly Architecture Firm has just been selected to Design This Summer’s Warm Up Party Pavilion.
Hy-Fi, a highly experimental, biodegradable pavilion designed by New York-based, biotech architectural firm The Living won MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program competition this year, the museum announced, making it the centerpiece of the summer’s outdoor Warm Up dance parties.

The firm’s name nods to its treatment of urban spaces as living ecosystems, a vision of architectural sustainability expressed in the near-zero carbon footprint of its pavilion. The porous, multi-column tower uses two decidedly innovative types of bricks that will be employed at an architectural scale for the first time ever at PS1. The rust-colored base, attuned to the existing colors of PS1’s brick courtyard will, be made from mushroom roots and discarded corn stalks processed, shaped, and dried into blocks by Ecovative, the Green Island, New York-based biomaterials lab that invented the process. Towards the top of the structure, the bricks take on a luminous silver sheen thanks to daylight-simulating mirror film in early development by 3M, designed to bounce light towards the ground (even after the sun goes down on the DJ sets).

“It combined two very important aspects for us,” MoMA architecture curator and head of the Young Architects Program Pedro Gadanho told ARTINFO over the phone. Obviously, it operates as an exciting background for the party, but on the other hand, there’s the fact that it represents new ideas coming up in the architectural field. I think the way that they did this research on new materials in biotech is really exciting, and may represent a transformation for the construction industry.”
Hy-Fi has a relatively small physical footprint in relation to previous YAP winners, which should ease circulation for Warm-Up’s growing attendance (which now averages at about 5,000 guests). To keep them cool, the pavilion also includes a pool adjacent to the brick tower, a reference to the organic life cycle produced these bio-bricks, Gadanho explained. But what about the giant squirt guns of designs passed that would douse unsuspecting partygoers throughout the day? “Not this year,” said Gadanho.

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via the Living ; blogs.artinfo.com

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