It is a great pleasure to collaborate on work with a team for the Young Architects Program (YAP) as a candidate to design and build a proposal for MoMA PS1’s central courtyard. The proposal presented itself with the opportunity to work with the Madrid-NY based estudio.entrisitio, whose work is interested in the spatial basis of architecture, and the NY based composer and sound artist Nina C. Young to develop this proposal.
Architecture and music are two forms of art that share the capacity to build space. Their means and methods are different in many ways (temporality, linearity, materiality) but similar in many others (order, rhythm, abstraction) and we believe there is an opportunity for bringing these two ways of thinking together and design a space that addresses them both, with the idea of doing it simultaneously from the two territories. We imagine the courtyard as an enlarged threshold, somehow pure interiority, continuous transition, in which the exterior of a certain condition becomes the interior of another, and that of another. We understand that the time of the music could already be understood as the fourth dimension but we prefer to think of the deformation it may produce in space as a possible form of multidimensionality. The music, the sound, the dance, the congregation, the proximity of bodies that are crushed or lengthened, the transfer of social and behavioral readings into architectural space, the logics of dispositions (stomach like public spaces) and the elongation of the contact surface between them, a kind of porous density. We imagine a place, non-object oriented but spatial, built with contemporary sensitive materials that may also deform due to heat (body warmth), air convection or light.
