ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Yearly, the Museum of Modern Art in New York holds an invited competition to design a temporary installation for the courtyard of the PS1 museum in Queens. The installation is to provide atmosphere for a summer long series of events and is dismantled at the end of three month series. With a budget of $70,000 and a construction schedule of six weeks, the de-sign build process resulted in a series of translucent nets covering 6500 square feet stitched together like a patchwork quilt. The nets were supported by post-tensioned tripods of untreated telephone poles and by the existing concrete courtyard walls. The translucent nets filtered the light and provided multicolored shadows on the ground and walls. The peaks of the tents ex-tended above the height of the courtyard walls and served as colorful beacons for the event space at night.
