MoMA PS1 announced today that "COSMO" by Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation is the winner of the 2015 Young Architects Program competition. Every year, the YAP winning design is realized into a temporary outdoor installation placed in the outdoor courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York during the annual Warm Up summer music festivities in late June. YAP proposals have to provide seating, shade, and water, and also follow guidelines that address environmental issues and sustainability.

Made of customized irrigation components, COSMO is described as a moveable party artifact that is also biochemically engineered to filter and purify 3,000 gallons of water in a period of four days. The structure will continuously eliminate suspended particles and nitrates, balance pH levels, and increase the level of dissolved oxygen. As a result, the same body of water will become more purified with each cycle.

Similar to last year's winning installation "Hy-Fi", COSMO is more than just an outdoor gathering spot in that it continues the conversation about ecological and climate change. MoMA PS1 mentioned in a press statement that Andrés Jaque addresses the United Nations statistic, which projects that by 2025, two-thirds of the global population will live in countries that lack sufficient water. COSMO was designed "as an offline and online prototype" that can be easily reproduced worldwide.

The Andrés Jaque team was selected out of five finalists that included brillhart architecture (Miami), Erin Besler (Los Angeles), The Bittertang Farm (New York), and Studio Benjamin Dillenburger (Toronto). Finalists were nominated out of a pool of approximately 25 candidates that consisted of recent graduates and established architects who experiment with new styles or techniques.