Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana Winner of the YAP 2019 at MoMA PS1
08/03/2019.
Young Architects Program. MoMA PS1 [NYC] USA
metalocus, RODRIGO GARCÍA
metalocus, RODRIGO GARCÍA
Every year a designer becomes the author of the creation of scenarios for summer music series in outdoor spaces in MOMA PS1. That is the reason why the finalists of YAP and especially the announcement of the winners are expected with anticipation. Here we have the name of the winner of this 2019.
Rendering. Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana. Winners of the Young Architects Program 2019, MoMA PS1, New York. Image Courtesy of Pedro & Juana.
Rendering. Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana. Winners of the Young Architects Program 2019, MoMA PS1, New York. Image Courtesy of Pedro & Juana.
Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana (Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo & Mecky Reuss) has been named the winner of The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1’s 20th annual Young Architects Program. Opening in June 2019, this year’s architectural installation is an immersive junglescape set within a large-scale cyclorama that sits atop MoMA PS1’s courtyard walls. Selected from among five finalists, Hórama Rama will be on view through the summer, serving as a temporary built environment for MoMA PS1’s pioneering outdoor music series Warm Up.
Hórama Rama is a large-scale cyclorama featuring a panoramic image of the jungle on scaffolding that protrudes above the courtyard of MoMA PS1 and catapults visitors into a wild, foreign territory. The nearly 40-foot-tall, 90-foot-wide structure hovers over the courtyard space, reframing the horizon and positioning visitors in an urban jungle. The presence of this large circular structure reconfigures the courtyard into an immersive environment that visitors can move in and out of, contrasting with the cityscape immediately adjacent to the Museum. Amplifying the experience are hammocks crafted in the south of Mexico along with a functioning waterfall. The exterior of the structure features protruding wood “bristles” that create a dynamic sense of movement.
Hórama Rama is a large-scale cyclorama featuring a panoramic image of the jungle on scaffolding that protrudes above the courtyard of MoMA PS1 and catapults visitors into a wild, foreign territory. The nearly 40-foot-tall, 90-foot-wide structure hovers over the courtyard space, reframing the horizon and positioning visitors in an urban jungle. The presence of this large circular structure reconfigures the courtyard into an immersive environment that visitors can move in and out of, contrasting with the cityscape immediately adjacent to the Museum. Amplifying the experience are hammocks crafted in the south of Mexico along with a functioning waterfall. The exterior of the structure features protruding wood “bristles” that create a dynamic sense of movement.
“For the 20th anniversary of the Young Architects Program, each of the five finalists designed potential—of surface, of movement, of space, of structure—as narratives that both reveal and conceal. Pedro & Juana's world-within-a-world, Hórama Rama, is a manifold of views in which to see and be seen, to find and lose oneself in a radically different environment. The installation constructs a collection of scenes into which visitors may escape, even if for a moment, whether in a hammock or by the waterfall.”
Sean Anderson, Associate Curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design.
"Finding inspiration in historical panoramas, Pedro & Juana have designed a structure that will allow visitors to immerse themselves in a fantastical wilderness, a visual refuge from the city. By juxtaposing two landscapes in transition— the jungle and the Long Island City skyline—they draw attention to the evolving conditions of our environment, both globally and locally, at a crucial moment.”
MoMA PS1 Chief Curator Peter Eleey
The other finalists for this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program were:
Low Design Office, (DK Osseo-Asare and Ryan Bollom)
Oana Stănescu & Akane Moriyama
Matter Design, (Brandon Clifford, Johanna Lobdell, and Wes McGee)
TO, (Jose G. Amozurrutia and Carlos Facio)
An exhibition of the five finalists' proposed projects will be on view at MoMA PS1 in summer 2019, organized by Sean Anderson, Associate Curator, with Arièle Dionne-Krosnick, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.
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Architects
Project Leaders.- Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo, Mecky Reuss. Team Pedro & Juana.-Adriana Carlos, Vani Monjaraz
Collaborators
Structural Engineer.- Roel Schierbeek, Shaina Saporta ARUP. Hammocks.- Entre Nudos. Waterfall Consultant.- Jenna Didier and ARUP. Lighting Consultants.- ARUP. Model.- Julia DiPietro, Yuki Nakayama
Pedro y Juana
Pedro & Juana is a studio from Mexico City founded by Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky Reuss that works on a variety of projects across creative professions. Some of them are: Sesiones Puerquito or Little Pig (2012-2014), cooking a suckling as a pretext for better conversation; Archivo Pavilion (2012), an intervention in the gardens of Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura, DF|Mexico; Hellmut (2013) at Museo Jumex, Mexico; Casa Reyes (2011-2012), an annex to an ex-colonial house, Merida/Yucatan; Cocina DS (2013), a kitchenette entrance for Dorothea Schlueter Galerie, Germany; Turin 42 (2013), a small apartment complex within and on top of a 1918 House, Mexico; Pavilion of Hotel Palenque is not in Yucatán, a dedifferentiated structure at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York (2014); The Intent of a Public Pool (2017), Mexico; With Love From The Tropics (2016-2017), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; C13, a remodel for sale (2012-2017); and Le Stalle (2017) a restoration of two animal stables and a pavilion, Italy.
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