Young Architects Program International

Principals: Işıl Ünal, Cem Kozar

The approach was to study the history of the area around Istanbul Modern and to borrow and reassemble forms from earlier structures, showing the ephemeral side of architecture. Influenced by the region’s industrial history, ALL THAT IS SOLID is constructed with oxidized metals. The design borrows geometries from buildings of the past and crunches them together in a chaotic way. Read more »

Principals: Sevince Bayrak and Oral Göktaş

Sky Spotting Stop is a temporary, site-specific installation that shades the courtyard of Istanbul Modern while floating gently on the hidden waters of the Bosporus. This ephemeral, gliding addition to the silhouette of the city serves as an intriguing spot for the courtyard, which is partly isolated from urban flow despite its very central location. Read more »

Principal: Andrés Jaque

More than two billion gallons of water circulate everyday beneath New York City. COSMO is a "movable artifact," made out of customized irrigation components, which aims to make this hidden system of pipes visible and enjoyable. COSMO is engineered to filter and purify 3,000 gallons of water over a four-day cycle, eliminating suspended particles and nitrates, balancing the pH, and increasing the level of dissolved oxygen. Read more »

Principal: David Benjamin

Hy-Fi creates a fun and captivating experience for MoMA PS1 Warm Up, plus a new paradigm for the future of manufacturing and design. If the 20th century was the century of physics, then the 21st is the century of biology. Our structure uses biological technologies combined with cutting-edge computation and engineering to create new building materials, a new method of bio-design, and a structure for MoMA PS1 that is 100% grown and 100% compostable. Read more »

Principal: Caroline O'Donnell

The winning project, Party Wall, opening at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City in late June, is a pavilion and flexible experimental space that provides shade for the Warm Up crowds, along with other functions. Read more »

NEW YORK

Principals: Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner

The winning project, Wendy, opening at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City in late June, is an experiment that tests how far the boundaries of architecture can expand to create ecological and social effect. Wendy is composed of nylon fabric treated with a groundbreaking titania nanoparticle spray to neutralize airborne pollutants. During the summer of 2012, Wendy will clean the air to an equivalent of taking 260 cars off the road. Read more »

BROOKLYN

Designers: Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, Georgeen Theodore, Rebecca Beyer Winik (project manager)

In this year's winning entry, Interboro Partners highlights the seven-sided polygonal shape of MoMA PS1's courtyard with a bold canopy of ropes and sails that defines the space and provides shade without the visual distraction and spatial interference of a support system at ground level. Read more »

BROOKLYN

Designers: Florian Idenburg, Jing Liu

Conceived as a participatory environment that reframes the conceptual relationship between humankind and structure, Pole Dance is an interconnected system of poles and bungees whose equilibrium is open to human action and environmental factors. Read more »

NEW HAVEN, CAMBRIDGE

Designers: Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample

MOS is the winner of the 2009 edition of YAP with Afterparty, a Bedouin tent-like "urban shelter" that will serve as a cooling escape for the thousands of people who attend WarmUp this summer. They were, in fact, involved in YAP twice as finalists (in 2004 and 2007) before going on to create this 10th anniversary project. Read more »

NEW YORK

Designers: Amale Andraos, Dan Wood

WORK Architecture Company principals Amale Andraos and Dan Wood literally changed the nature of the 2008 competition when they decided to build a fully functioning farm right in the courtyard of PS1. Read more »

LOS ANGELES

Designers: Benjamin Ball, Gaston Nogues

Ball-Nogues won YAP in 2007 with Liquid Sky, an installation that combined advanced digital computation with more traditional forms of craft to yield an exhilarating creation of tinted Mylar petals. Based in Los Angeles, Ball-Nogues is known for creating experimental built environments. Read more »

NEW YORK

Designers: Pablo Castro, Jennifer Lee

OBRA Architects, founded by Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee, won YAP in 2006 with their entry BEATFUSE! The team drew inspiration from the Roman baths and the idea of people gathering for the celebration of WarmUp. Read more »

LOS ANGELES

Designer: Hernan Diaz Alonso

SUR consists of a red and white base cast with composite fiberglass and rubber, and a corresponding freestanding aluminum armature covered with latex and polyurethane-sprayed spandex. Scattered between undulating, fluid surfaces are benches for listening and respite. Read more »

NEW YORK

Designers: Mimi Hoang, Eric Bunge

nARCHITECTS won the 2004 YAP competition with Canopy, a paradise of shaped bamboo with many distinct climactic environments for different modes of lounging. Read more »

LOS ANGELES

Designer: Tom Wiscombe

Tom Wiscombe of EMERGENT Architecture was the winner of YAP 2003 with his entry, Light-Wing, which was inspired by tension-structures traditionally found at the beach as well as in natural formations. It was defined by two elements: a translucent, permeable roof of interconnected canoe-shapes and a leisure landscape of two large pools. Read more »

NEW YORK

Designer: William E. Massie

Playa Urbana/Urban Beach addresses concepts of surface and sensuality, redefining shade, privacy, and space to create a new landscape within PS1's existing large courtyard. Read more »

NEW YORK

Designer: Linda Roy

Roy won the YAP competition in 2001 with a project that blended her native South African roots with a bit of "pHantasy." Read more »

NEW YORK

Designer: Gregg Pasquarelli

SHoP won the 2000 YAP with Dunescape, a design that set the precedent for the "urban beach." Read more »

NEW YORK

Designer: Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson designed a dramatic, colorful, multitiered DJ booth and dance pavilion. Johnson's design consisted of a single unified structure combining a DJ area, dance floor, bleacher-style benches, and platforms for sitting or standing. Read more »

Principals: Giorgio Marchese, Daniele Marcotulli, Gabriel Enrique Nariño, Arianna Nobile, Andrea Ottaviani, Nicola Alicata, Cecilia Bandiera, Annalaura Valitutti, with Silvia Firmani, Michele Malagoli, Giovanni Policriti, Massimiliano Giglietti

This year, MAXXI presents Corte's installation Great Land, a portion of landscape set in the museum courtyard. Great Land is a piece of rural life in an urban setting that allows people to gather together, lie on the ground, and nourish the body and soul. Read more»

Principals: Jacopo Ammendola, Giuseppe Grant, Juan Lopez Cano, Margherita Manfra, Nasrin Mohiti Asli, Roberto Pantaleoni, and Stefano Ragazzo

The 2014 MAXXI YAP winning installation is 8 1/2, by the Roman architectural collective orizzontale. A timber podium and a translucent wall 28 feet (eight-and-a-half meters) tall and made of recycled beer kegs will provide both a stage for summer events and a relaxing space for visitors
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Designers: Alberto Bottero, Valeria Bruni, Simona Della Rocca, Fabio Vignolo

The winning project, He, opening at MAXXI in Rome, Italy, this summer, is a large-scale balloon floating above the MAXXI piazza, providing shadow to a lawn and wooden platform below equipped with areas for play and rest. Human interaction takes place amid the dripping water flowing along the base of the suspended balloon, a chilling curtain that virtually defines the area underneath.
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ROME

Designers: Simone Capra, Claudio Castaldo with Francesco Colangeli, Andrea Valentini

WHATAMI—the winning proposal in Rome—is an archipelago of green spaces including a great main "island" and several smaller ones scattered across the museum's outdoor space. The islands are made of pressed hay and soil covered with natural grass, injecting green life into the concrete museum square. Read more »

Principals: Guillermo Hevia García + Nicolás Urzúa

Your Reflection creates an uncertain experience, a situation of estrangement that cannot be controlled, as the reflections and deformations made possible by the mirrored steel planes are infinite. Read more »

Principals: Martín Del Solar and Rodrigo Sheward

CONSTRUCTO’s 2014 winning project, Wicker Forest, by the architectural firm Grupo Talca, is composed of 13-foot-tall (four-meter) bundles of wicker designed to catch particles carried by the wind, to provide shade, and to sway in the breeze. Read more »

Designers: Ignacio Garcia Partarrieu - Arturo Scheidegger

The project proposes to insert a cultural program in the park deriving from its own eventual and temporary conditions, while at the same time, creating a particular environment and climatically conditioned for public enjoyment. Read more »

Designers: Alejandro Beals and Loreto Lyon

VALPARAISO

Designers: Jorge Godoy Roman and Lene Nettelbeck; Alexiss Machado, Francisco Calvo, Agustín Herrera, José Manuel Morales

SANTIAGO

Designer: Eduardo Castillo

The winning proposal, developed by architect Eduardo Castillo, calls for construction of a temporary landscape inspired by the spring celebrations in Chile's Central Valley, resulting in large sun-filtered atmosphere. A system of roofs structured from wooden posts that, together with fabric, created a topographic relief, more than covering the patio, spatially contained it. Read more »

Principals: Lee Chihoon and Kang Yerin

Roof Sentiment, composed of one large flexible reed blind, has a serpentine shape and is held up by tall pillars at the highest points, so that parts of the roof dangle and move freely in the wind. Read more »

Principals: Choi Jangwon, Park Cheonkang, and Kwon Kyungmin

The 2014 winner of YAP MMCA is the installation Shinseon Play, by Moon Ji Bang, a team comprising Choi Jangwon, Park Cheonkang, and Kwon Kyungmin. As the architects explain, the structure was inspired by an ancient Korean myth: “Shinseons are imaginary Taoist hermits… [who] live on top of high mountains or above clouds, transcending the hustle and bustle of the human world of joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure.” Read more »