CODA at MoMA PS1. Party Wall Opening
02/07/2013.
By CODA [NYC] 28/06 > 31/08/2013
metalocus, ROBERTO ALIA
metalocus, ROBERTO ALIA
The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 announce the opening of Party Wall, by CODA (Caroline O'Donnell, Ithaca, NY), winner design of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in New York in its 14th edition. CODA's design, drawn from among five finalists, created a temporary urban landscape for the 2013 Warm Up summer music series in MoMA PS1's outdoor courtyard.
Party Wall is a pavilion and flexible experimental space that uses its large-scale, linear form to provide shade for the Warm Up crowds, in addition to other functions.
The porous façade is affixed to a tall self-supporting steel frame that is balanced in place with large fabric containers filled with water, and clad with a screen of interlocking wooden elements comprised of donated from Comet, an Ithaca-based manufacturer of eco-friendly skateboards. The lower portion of the Party Wall's façade is capable of shedding its "exterior," as 120 panels can be detached from the structure and used as benches and communal tables during Warm Up and other diverse events and programs such as lectures, classes, performances, and film screenings.
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Venue.- Party Wall, MoMA PS1 Courtyard. 22-25 Jackson Ave. con 46th Ave. Long Island City, NY.
Dates.- From 28th June to 31th August 2013.
Timetable.- Saturdays, from 15'00 to 21'00h. Check out schedule.
CODA is an Ithaca-based experimental design and research studio operating at a range of scales. CODA’s work is a negotiation between form and the environment. The engagement with the complexities of site is fundamental to each design strategy, producing an intervention that is both emergent from and reactive to a particular environment. The firm’s recent projects include Bloodline, a self-consuming barbeque pavilion in Stuttgart, Germany; Urban Punc., an urban strategy for Leisnig, Germany (in collaboration with Troy Schaum); CounterSpace, a housing development in Dublin, Ireland; Noatun, an urban plan for Klaksvik, Faroe Islands; Zoom House, a seasonal extension in Brisbane, Australia; and Half-House, a house in a secret location in the United States. For more information, visit co-da.co.
CAROLINE O'DONNELL was born in Ireland in 1974. She received her B.A. (Hons) and B.Arch with distinction from the Manchester School of Architecture, England, where she was awarded the Heywood Medal. She received her Masters in Architecture at Princeton University, and was awarded the Suzanne K. Underwood Prize for exceptional ability and talent in Architectural Design.
Since 2000, O'Donnell has worked on numerous commissions and competitions, both independently and collaboratively, including with SMAQ, Shine Project Group, Troy Schaum, Brantley Hightower, and Mike Green. From 2006 - 2008, she was project architect at Eisenman Architects in New york, where she directed the design teams form several projects, including Hamburg Library, Pompei Santuario Railway Station. From 2000 - 2004 she was a designer at KCAP, Rotterdam.
She has contributed to several journals including Thresholds, Log, MAP and Pidgin. She is one of the founding editors (along with Brian Tabolt and Marc McQuade) of Pidgin Magazine and is currently the editor-in-chief of the Cornell Journall of Architecture.
O'Donnell is currently the Richard Meier Assistant Professor at Cornell University. She has previously taught at The Cooper Union and Princeton University. Since June 2008, she has been a fellow at Akademie Schlooss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.