Design Actions for Common Good: Interboro Partners are among the architects chosen for the American Pavilion at the Biennale in Venice

Holding Pattern is a project which goes beyond the requirements of the MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program to take into account the needs of the communities living around the museum space. Interboro of New York was asked to come up with something to do with all the temporary installations that so often end up being an end in themselves.

They responded with a design based on the neighbourhood’s needs making varied use of different objects including mirrors, ping-pong tables, a lifeguard’s chair and 84 trees: all with the aim of promoting connections between MoMA PS1 and its surroundings, benefitting social life in the area, where more than fifty organisations have benefited from the dismantling of the installations after the event.

Holding Pattern took up all the space in the courtyard under a single structure free of obstacles, creating an environment that promoted interaction between various cultural proposals.

This idea of the culture of design benefiting the community will be presented again at the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice, where projects by architects, designers, artists and citizens benefitting the neighbourhood and city life will be presented in the exhibition Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for Common Good. Interboro Partners is one of them.


Holding Pattern by Interboro Partners:
Tobias Armborst (Principal), Daniel D’Oca (Principal), Georgeen Theodore (Principal), Rebecca Beyer Winik (Project Manager), Kathleen Cahill, Andrew Coslow, Jenessa Frey, Trevor Lamb, http://www.interboropartners.net/
Graphics: Thumb
Structural Engineering: Buro Happold
Location: New York, USA

Image credits:
Genevieve Hanson: Photo by Genevieve Hanson. © 2011 Interboro Partners
Interboro: © 2011 Interboro Partners
Noit Zakay: Photo by Noit Zakay. © 2011 Interboro Partners
Museum of Modern Art: Photo by Howard Heyman. © 2011 The Museum of Modern Art.

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