Flowers
Flowers Finalist entry by Kivi Sotamaa to the annual Young Architects Program Competition organized by PS1 and MoMA*
The design is like a bouquet of flowers. There are four formations - Blaze, Golden Beauty, Party Girl and Love Potion - which generate dramatically different atmospheres within a coherent whole. Each one of the formations contains its own sensation created by a aqustics, color, pattern, light and shadow, the sensibility of the form, the movement it evokes and the possibilities it affords for use.
The project draws not only on the expressionist powers of topological work in art and architecture but also on the impressionist ambitions of minimalism. The topological, abstract, formally articulated work has greater capacity for staging differences in intensity, and the minimalist impressionist work masters the use of light and material effects in the production of affect. The ambition of the design is to choreograph all these elements and produce a stage for the dramaturgy of contemporary urban life at PS1.
*Young Architects Program, a competition that invites emerging architects to propose a building project for the courtyard of P.S.1 in Long Island City, Queens. The objective of the Young Architects Program is to identify and provide an outlet for emerging young talent in architecture, an ongoing mission of both MoMA and P.S.1 The five finalists are selected from 25 candidates nominated by renown architecture critics and past year?s winners. This year?s finalists included OBRA Architects (New York), Contemporary Architecture Practice (New York), Gnuform (Los Angeles), Howeler + Yoon (Boston), and Kivi Sotamaa (Columbus, Ohio/Helsinki, Finland).
Churchill thought flowers are important in wartime. He insisted that despite all the rationing of food and petrol regular shipments of flowers be maintained.
The design is like a bouquet of flowers. There are four formations - Blaze, Golden Beauty, Party Girl and Love Potion - which generate dramatically different atmospheres within a coherent whole. Each one of the formations contains its own sensation created by a aqustics, color, pattern, light and shadow, the sensibility of the form, the movement it evokes and the possibilities it affords for use.
The project draws not only on the expressionist powers of topological work in art and architecture but also on the impressionist ambitions of minimalism. The topological, abstract, formally articulated work has greater capacity for staging differences in intensity, and the minimalist impressionist work masters the use of light and material effects in the production of affect. The ambition of the design is to choreograph all these elements and produce a stage for the dramaturgy of contemporary urban life at PS1.
*Young Architects Program, a competition that invites emerging architects to propose a building project for the courtyard of P.S.1 in Long Island City, Queens. The objective of the Young Architects Program is to identify and provide an outlet for emerging young talent in architecture, an ongoing mission of both MoMA and P.S.1 The five finalists are selected from 25 candidates nominated by renown architecture critics and past year?s winners. This year?s finalists included OBRA Architects (New York), Contemporary Architecture Practice (New York), Gnuform (Los Angeles), Howeler + Yoon (Boston), and Kivi Sotamaa (Columbus, Ohio/Helsinki, Finland).