CANOPY - MoMA/P.S.1 YOUNG ARCHITECTS PROGRAM 2004

(photo above courtesy Frank Oudeman) The project’s practical aims were to provide a unifying spatial experience for these various sizes of crowds; to provide seating, a dance floor, and spaces for play; and to provide relief from the hot summer weather. nARCHITECTS achieved these goals with a 11,000 sf Canopy made with freshly cut green bamboo, built as a precise translation of a 3d computer model. The Canopy provided an armature for 4 different micro-climates, involving 3 different water systems. . The color and atmospheric changes contrasted with the technical precision of a re-mixed natural material – a mutated hybrid of weather + landscape elements.