2011
Holding Pattern is Interboro’s winning submission to MoMA PS1′s 2011 Young Architects Program. It is a project for MoMA PS1′s courtyard that opened to the public on June 19th, 2011.
To create Holding Pattern, we asked MoMA PS1′s neighbors the following question: Is there something you need that we could design, use in the courtyard during the summer, and then donate to you when Holding Pattern is deinstalled in the fall? We talked to taxi management companies, libraries, high schools, senior and daycare centers, community gardens, a post office, and dozens of other Long Island City–based institutions, trying to make matches between things the neighborhood needed and things MoMA PS1′s courtyard needed. The result is an eclectic collection of objects—including mirrors, ping-pong tables, a lifeguard chair, a rock-climbing wall, and eighty-four trees—that we might not have thought to include in our design but that enhance the experience of the courtyard and strengthen connections between MoMA PS1 and its surroundings. In the fall of 2011, a total of seventy-nine objects and eighty-four trees will be donated to more than fifty organizations in Long Island City and beyond.
For more information about Holding Pattern, you can download the official press release here.
Project Team
Tobias Armborst, Principal Daniel D’Oca, Principal Georgeen Theodore, Principal Rebecca Beyer Winik, Project Manager
Buro Happold, Structural Engineering Kathleen Cahill Andrew Coslow Jenessa Frey New York Restoration Project Trevor Lamb Thumb, Graphic Design
Jordan Alport Bryson Armstrong Thomas Asfor Moulee Basumallik Douglas Battersby Derrick Benson Christine Berdahl Lorenzo Bertolotto Heidi Bullinga Ingrid Burrington Julian Bushman-Copp Alexander Castro Terry Chew Carey Chiaia Severn Clay Heather Day Rafael de Carvalho Vanessa Deflache Blanca Eleta Ethan Fischer Javier Fuentes Nicole Gabbard Adrian Garcia Rana Ghobadian Lesser Gonzalez, Illustration Aaron Green Jacquelyn Haas David Himelman Lucy Huerta Kevin Hyun Mayya Itenbergy Jenna Kaminsky Rami Kassis Nancy Kim Kaja Kuhl Tina Lee Chris Leppert Matt Lohry Rachael London Willy Mann Richard May Andrea Michalski Gina Morrow Kristin Mueller New York Restoration Project Brian Novello, Rendering Joel Okpala David Perez Amy Peterson Carsten Rodin Anne Schmidt Nancy Seaton Becky Slogeris Folarin Soetan Joe Solfaro Amelia Szpiech Chat Travieso Yifan Wang Philip Weller Michael Winik Tony Zhang Special Thanks Benjamin Ball Bancker Construction Corp. Bancker Electric Cristobal Correa Amy Gavaris Harvard University Graduate School of Design Darin Johnson Maryland Institute College of Art Valerie Moss New Jersey Institute of Technology NJIT Model Shop Barrett Robinson Hillary Sample Joerg Schwartz Yeohlee Teng Jeff Thompson Chris Vanterpool Vassar College Michael Yoken
Pasqualina Azzarello, Recycle-A-Bicycle Alyson Baker, Socrates Sculpture Park Denise Ballard, St. Margaret Mary Church Fr. Ralph Barile, St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church David Bentham, John Murray Playground Joe Block, Partnership for Parks Andrew Bogardt, East River State Park Nathan Brachfield, New York Center for Rehabilitation Care Richard Camiso, PS 17 Henry David Thoreau Tamir Chen, Flux Factory Mark Christie, Long Island City Community Garden Jonathan Cohen, 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center, Inc. Jules Corkery, Astoria Park Butterfly Garden Cynthia Dickman, PS 17 Henry David Thoreau Madge DiPippo, St. Rita’s Roman Catholic Church Samatha Dolanzano, Les Enfants Montessori School Claire Doyle, Astoria Park Alliance Katie Ellman, Green Shores NYC Janet Farrell, PS 166 Henry Gradstein Paul Finnegan, New York Irish Center Veronica Franklin, Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House K. Emmanuel Fuentebella, Long Island City Rock Group David Gigler, Mount Olivet Cemetery Ted Gruber, LIC Community Boathouse Susan Healey, Hallet’s Cove Mr. Ho, PS 111 Jacob Blackwell Terrence Hughes, Salah M. Hassanein Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens Harvey Jaswal, Build It Green! NYC Deidre Karacsony, IS 126 Albert Shanker School for Visual and Performing Arts Mike Karipidis, Checker Management Corporation Stephanos Koullias, Western Queens Compost Initiative Rev. Karen Davis Lawson, St. George’s Episcopal Church Shaun Leonardo, Socrates Sculpture Park Sheila Lewandowski, The Chocolate Factory Theater Clemente Lopes, IS 10 Horace Greeley Osvaldo LoVerme, Teamsters Local 808 Robert Madison, Queensbridge/Riis Senior Center Jennifer Manley, Queens Library Patricia Martin, Information Technology High School Richard Mazda, Secret Theatre Miachel Menasche, U.S. Post Office, Long Island City Dennis Montiel, La Familia Restaurant William T. Newlin, Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House Takis Papadopoulos, Checker Management Corporation Tony Quercia, U.S. Post Office, Long Island City Eric Ragan, Long Island City School of Ballet Peter Richter, Sunnyside Community Garden Ester Riveros, Les Enfants Montessori School Irina Rokhberg, Long Island City Kids Carol Schafenberg, PS 76 William Hallett Randy Seabrook, PS 111 Jacob Blackwell Lynne Serpe, Two Coves Community Garden Kryss Shane, Ravenswood NORC Kathie Silva, New York Center for Rehabilitation Care Bob Singleton, Greater Astoria Historical Society Catherine Sosa, St. Margaret Mary Church Leanne Spaulding, Western Queens Compost Initiative Pastor Sung, New York Presbyterian Church Dennis Verriello, Queens Library Gary Viola, PS 171 Peter G. Van Alst Judy Zangwill, Sunnyside Community Services Charles Zinc, IS 10 Horace Greeley