Future Architects: February 2011

Architects: White arkiteker ab
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Client: Jarl Asset Management
Project area: 24,600 sqm
Project year: 2005 – 2010
Photographs: Wojtek Gurak

Stockholm Waterfront lies adjacent to Stockholm’s Central Station. The site has the best public exposure in Stockholm, with thousands of train passengers passing by every day – its position on the Riddarfjärden bay and its proximity to Stockholm’s City Hall also make it an ideal location.

The project consists of three separate buildings with a lower congress and concert section closest to the water, an office building, and a 400-room hotel directly connected to the congress building. However, it was not possible to accommodate the requirement for a 3,000-seat congress hall and a 2,000-seat dining room, within the triangular plot.

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White’s solution was the key to its success. The equation was solved with moveable seating dual-use spaces and a large section of the congress hall suspended beyond the confines of the site, like an enormous canopy over the entrance. Altering the Stockholm skyline also required the confidence of the client and the authorities.

The upper part of the congress hall will also be spectacular – a free form interacting with movement on the flyovers and quays around the building. The upper seating assemblies seat 1,500 people and allow rapid conversion into two separate halls. The lower section of the hall can add a similar number of visitors in cinema-style seating. Alternatively, the lower seating assemblies can quite simply be retracted to provide space for 2,000 banquet guests.

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On February 16, the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 announced the winner of the 12th annual Young Architects Program: Interboro Partners with its winning entry Holding Pattern. Today, we are very excited to also publish some of the finalist entries. The first one is the proposal Bottle Service by MASS Design Group.

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P.S.1 Finalist: Bottle Service by MASS

Project Description from the Architects:

Our Project, Bottle Service, captures that summer impulse to cool off by activating the senses of the subaquatic and urban refreshment. Beneath a stream of seemingly floating and frozen forms,Bottle Service is an urban menagerie, a refracted surface, a transformative plunge unique only to this courtyard, to this borough, to this moment.

As an organization we seek to ask: how can architects add the most lasting social and economic value to a place? For our proposal for the MoMA and MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, our challenge was how can the most impermanent of structures – the pavilion – leave the most lasting and positive impact on the community.

Bottle Service: MoMA PS1 from Alan Ricks on Vimeo.

Built from all recycled and recyclable materials, Bottle Service is an architectural statement that proposes that any architecture, if choreographed well, can have lasting environmental, social and economic impact.

By establishing collaborations with groups such as, The Center for Architecture Foundation, Flux Factory, The East River Development Alliance, and Emeco, our proposal for the courtyard seeks to build ownership through engagement. Our project Involves the community throughout the construction process, as well as creates an ongoing series of art and architecture workshops to take place at PS1 over the summer for the community.

MASS Design Group | PS1 MOMA from Alan Ricks on Vimeo.

MATERIALS:

By transforming recyclable materials into new forms Bottle Service transcends junkitecture.
Plastic bottles are shrink wrapped in a reflective silver coating, transforming them into a refined new raw material.
Bottles are strung using this simple system to allow kids and students to participate in the construction.
Working with local artisans we transform Tyvek, a waterproofing material used in construction, into a new fabric that envelops our suspended forms.

DISASSEMBLY > ADDED VALUE

The canopy structure is comprised of prefabricated aluminum stage trusses that will cycle back into use after the event while the Tyvek sheething material will all be sent back to the manufacturer, Dupont, where it will be recycled into plastic furniture like picnic tables.
The bottles, all 55,500 of them, will be taken by EMECO, which that makes the iconic Navy 111 out of recycled bottles to produce a limited edition, custom blue MoMA PS1 Bottle Service chair that can be sold. The revenue generated from the chairs will be donated to the nonprofits in Queens who we partnered with during the process.

Bottle Service shows architecture as an investment in communities. Creating not only added economic and social value, our proposal proves that the socially engaged and the architecturally progressive are not independent, but one and the same.