Holding Pattern

22-25, Jackson Avenue, Queens, Queens County, NY, United States

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Holding Pattern

22-25, Jackson Avenue, Queens, Queens County, NY, United States

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Interboro Partners

YEAR

2011

Holding Pattern is Interboro’s winning submission to MoMA
PS1′s 2011 Young Architects Program.
To create Holding Pattern, we asked MoMA PS1′s neighbors
the following question: Is there something you need that we could design, use
in the courtyard during the summer, and then donate to you when Holding Pattern
is deinstalled in the fall? We talked to taxi management companies, libraries,
high schools, senior and daycare centers, community gardens, a post office, and
dozens of other Long Island City–based institutions, trying to make matches
between things the neighborhood needed and things we thought could enhance the
experience of the MoMA PS1 courtyard in the summer. The result is an eclectic
collection of objects—including mirrors, ping-pong tables, a lifeguard chair, a
rock-climbing wall, and eighty-four trees—that we might not have thought to include
in our design but that enhance the experience of the courtyard and strengthen
connections between MoMA PS1 and its surroundings. In the fall of 2011, a total
of seventy-nine objects and eighty-four trees were donated to more than fifty
organizations in Long Island City and beyond.