The Ithaca-based design practice Jenny Sabin Studio has been named the winner of the 2017 Young Architect's Program at MoMA PS1. The annual competition awards an emerging architecture firm the opportunity to design a site-specific installation in the courtyard of the Long Island City art institution. Jenny Sabin Studio beat out five other practices with her entry Lumen.
Lumen is made of responsive tubular structures in a lightweight knitted fabric. The installation will include a canopy of photoluminescent, solar active textiles, which absorb and deliver light. Lumen will also feature a misting system, satisfying the competition stipulation that the installation include water in order to help cool down visitors to the Warm Up event.
“Jenny Sabin's catalytic immersive environment, Lumen, captured the jury's attention for imaginatively merging public and private spaces," states Sean Anderson, Associate Curator in MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design. "With innovative construction and design processes borne from a critical merging of technology and nature to precise attention to detail at every scale, Lumen will no doubt engage visitors from day to night in a series of graduated environments and experiences.”
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It is 2017 and we still have bad designers using Voronoi - this shouldn't be awarded. Anyone using Voronoi is just as bad as all the wanna be zaha knock offs that architecture has had to endure. This is a basic algorithm built into every 3d program, only bad students who are unable to think creatively rely on it as a default and now it has won the PS1....
Looks cool, but these projects are starting to all look like the same flimsy pipe+light installation. I'm old enough to remember when there was some solid materials used....
It's been a while since a PS1 winner produced a really inspiring project. Liquid Sky by Ball Nogues was the last one, in my mind. Winners typically come from the same handful of schools and each year they get more and more disappointing.
This reminds me that MoMA is very tied to the the GSAAP, which makes sense b/c it's New York and they do interesting work. But maybe they should look beyond that one bubble....to Yale haha. Or anywhere in mid-America? since these projects are starting to repeat / get stale. MoMA and NYTimes need to educate themselves, GSAAP ain't the center of the arch world, maybe the social-tech psuedoarchitecture movement.
Also, note how the judges wowed by the VR and big words over physical models. Says it all.....
The winning entry, seems refined. The model delicate, even. Compared to the flamingo heads entry for instance, but man Flamingo's = Fun! and seem more appropriate for the spirit of the event, perhaps?
Though in this earlier (?) version does seem less "flamingo" more tentacle...
Also, for my own clarification, the VR is just for the presentation, or is part of proposal?
Chemex, Sabin is at Cornell?
Jimenez Lai had the best entry
with an awesome video, to boot:
https://youtu.be/XQPKuBnoa6U
Looks like they chose on the politically correct side over the best entry. I mean voronoi, did they even look at that entry. geez, the west keeps on getting shafted, over and over again.
@Chris, what did you find re: the SchaumShieh entry? I couldn't find much, on either the PS1 YAP site or the SchaumShieh site.
As for Sabin's entry as you indicated (at least from the video) I agree she is the one to most clearly express her work. I almost used the word mature, in my comment...
Nam, your Flamingo images are the Shaum/Shieh entry.
MOMA PS1 has some images from every entry up here
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