Following last week’s visit to Los Angeles-based Johnston Marklee, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to New York this week to explore the work of Snarkitecture.

The firm operates along an ethos of “not art, not architecture,” with a methodology that challenges conventional approaches to materials and structures. Over recent years, our editorial has reported on several creative outputs from the team, who “thrive on opportunities to create unexpected moments that invite exploration, play, and reflection.”

Over on Archinect Jobs, the firm is currently hiring an intern to join their New York office for three months.

For candidates interested in applying for the position, or anybody interested in learning more about the studio, we have rounded up three projects by Snarkitecture that demonstrate their design approach.

BEACH, National Building Museum, Washington D.C.

In 2015, Snarkitecture captured headlines with their BEACH installation in Washington D.C.’s National Building Museum. The 10,000-square-foot indoor playscape comprised an all-white, monochromatic installation equipped with beach chairs on its “shoreline” and an “ocean” of nearly 1 million recyclable translucent plastic balls for visitors to splash in. The perimeter of the arena was lined with mirrored walls to give the illusion of a vast expanse beyond the museum hall.

'We see the commission as an exciting opportunity to create an architectural installation that reimagines the qualities and possibilities of material, encourages exploration and interaction with one’s surroundings, and offers an unexpected and memorable landscape for visitors,' Snarkitecture co-founder Alex Mustonen said at the time.

Fun House, National Building Museum, Washington D.C.

Three years after BEACH, Snarkitecture returned to the National Building Museum’s Great Hall with the interactive installation Fun House. Coinciding with the firm’s tenth anniversary, the installation saw Snarkitecture celebrate the milestone by showcasing 42 of the firm’s projects.

Visitors entered the exhibition through a house with an unusual foyer, recreating Snarkitecture’s project Dig at the Storefront for Art and Architecture with a cavernous entrance with EPS architectural foam. Outside the backyard, the installation was populated with fun, outdoor activities for museum-goers, including Snarkitecture’s Playhouse from Exhibit Columbus 2017 and a kidney-shaped pool filled with beach balls that echoed their widely popular commission by the same museum back in 2015.

Snark Park, Hudson Yards, New York City

Designed to coincide with the opening of the major New York City Hudson Yards development, Snark Park comprised a 6000-square-foot exhibition space for Snarkitecture to host a rotating cast of art and architecture installations. The venue, located on the second floor of 20 Hudson Yards, gave Snarkitecture its first-ever permanent playground to design and curate from start to finish. "Many of our studio's past projects have been housed within sites that were not our own...[we've] had to contend with pre-existing spaces," said Snarkitecture partner Ben Porto at the time. "With Snark Park, the space is ours.”

For their inaugural show, the practice presented "Lost and Found," a modern-day enchanted forest for which the team installed a series of inhabitable columns, decorated with many of Snarkitecture's signature materials such as EPS foam, ping-pong balls, and mirror tiles. The monochromatic landscape was accompanied by a unique scent that filled the room and sounds provided by the Polish electroacoustic musician Jacaszek.

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