Weaving the courtyard is not an object nor a sculpture standing in the courtyard of the PS1, but a series of simple but powerful actions on the preexistence that generate new and different atmospheres in every space of the courtyard. The intervention works together with the preexisting walls to generate embankments on the topography, platforms of soil and mirrors of water. Using the modulation of the holes on the concrete walls, left by the formwork ties, we make a weaving system to create an ethereal and colorful cloud of ropes that provide many different textures, colors and shadows below the courtyard. We use the materials as they are, without altering their original state, therefore in the end of the summer these materials can be reused, for their usual purposes.
Since its foundation in 1971, the PS1 has been one of the first and most important venues for site-specific art In New York. Our Proposal is in essence, a site-specific architectural intervention that can only belong in this courtyard.
CREDITS
ESCOBEDO SOLIZ STUDIO
ANDRES SOLIZ PAZ
LAZBENT PAVEL ESCOBEDO AMARAL
STEFANIE VERHOEYEN
RODRIGO MAZARI ARMIDA
HIROSHI ANDO PONCE DE LEON
BRIAN ROSENDO CASARRUBIAS ZAMBRANO
STRUCTURAL AND CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANS
UNAM LABORATORY OF STRUCTURES AND RESERCH
ING. JUAN GERARDO OLIVA SALINAS
RENDERS
PEDRO LECHUGA- CUERVO LOCO
In collaboration with UNAM Facultad de Arquitectura.