Starting in late June, the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, will feature a tall steel frame that is balanced in place with large fabric containers filled with water. The project was designed by Caroline O’Donnell of Ithaca, N.Y., whose firm, CODA, has been selected as the winner of the annual Young Architects Program in New York.
The program, now in its 14th edition, is jointly run by the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center. Each year’s applicants are charged with developing creative, environmentally sound ideas for a temporary outdoor installation that provides shade, seating and water. The project will provide the setting for the 2013 Warm Up summer music series in the courtyard.
CODA’s design, called “Party Wall,†includes a porous facade whose lower portion features 120 panels that can be detachd and used as benches and communal tables; a shallow stage of reclaimed wood; and pools of water. The other finalists were Leong Leong, Moorhead & Moorhead, TempAgency and French 2D.
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: January 17, 2013
An earlier version of this post misstated the name of one firm that was a finalist in the Young Architects Program. It is Leong Leong, not Leong Architects.
A version of this article appeared in print on 01/18/2013, on page C2 of the NewYork edition with the headline: MoMA Names Firm as the Winner of the Young Architects Program.