Dream The Combine installs elevated runway and pivoting mirrors at MoMA PS1 courtyard
Minnesota studio Dream The Combine has constructed a series of black steel frames that accommodate net hammocks, mirrors and misters, providing a setting for MoMA PS1's summer music series.
Hide & Seek is the winning design in this year's Young Architects Program, run annually by the museum in Queens, New York.
Architects Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, co-founders of Minneapolis-based Dream The Combine, created an installation comprising various steel structures and mirrors across MoMA PS1's outdoor space.
"This year's construction is a responsive, kinetic environment that features eight intersecting elements arrayed across the entirety of the MoMA PS1 courtyard," said a statement from the museum.
The mirrors are placed strategically across the site, and pivot with the wind and upon touch to create optical illusions around the semi-enclosed space. Underneath a rectangular steel frame is an oversized net suspended above the pebbled ground. Visitors can lounge atop this netting, and see themselves reflected in two wall-like mirrors at either end.
Other massive mirrors are positioned high above the courtyard, reflecting nearby billboards and brick buildings in the surroundings of Long Island City.
The visual connections within the courtyard, and out to the neighbourhood beyond, change as the mirrors pivot on their supports.
"Inspired by the crowd, the street, and the jostle of relationships found in the contemporary city, Hide & Seek enables surp...
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