The pop-up phenomenon has taken hold in New York City as agents and other interests realized that temporarily vacant floor area can be put to work while waiting for new occupants and new leases to be negotiated. Short-term occupancy if quickly outfitted and organized can not only serve as sales and marketing devices, but can create publicity and activate branding and spark interest. These spaces are more available during financial downturns and recessions and currently I have found several locations in well known landmark skyscrapers.
I conceived my project as a pop-up museum that will travel from short-term available raw commercial space in skyscrapers New York City to reconstruct the museum space for sharing ideas.
I propose to take advantage of this condition by creating a module of display easily transported and unfolded to create an instant museum.
I based the design on the study of the grid, a standard element that most skyscrapers have used to determine much of their open space, design of the core, and the module for their envelope arrangement. The initial installation is planned around a curatorial exhibition by Rosalind Krauss entitled “Grids” and displays works from her proposed thesis.
My solution developed from a study of “origami” and grew into an 8’ cube of panels and folded elements that open like a chrysalis to create a myriad of possible arrangements and interconnections as well as shipping containers for the art work to be displayed. The cube is easily transported, unfolded, and reassembled in hours and can move from place to new place effortlessly.
(Now you lay out your floor plans of the skyscrapers and start setting up your model of parts as you unfold your box)
Let me arrange one of the multiple possibilities on an overlay of portions of several of Manhattan’s recognized skyscraper plans to show you the versatility and one of the available organizational solutions of my proposal. The intent is to allow a “rhizome” (you will again need to explain what rhizome is) non-structured but interconnected organization that does not impose a pattern of viewing, but suggests multiple experiences and supports impromptu and impulse decisions of confronting and understanding the art presented going through office units.
The spaces that can be created include a TED-like conference hall, (you will need to explain what TED is here) artist work stations, small meeting areas, study and reading areas, a café space, and storage.