#yap2016

This summer saw the return of YAP – Young Architects Program, that promotes and supports young architecture, now in its sixth Italian edition and organized by MAXXI in collaboration with MoMA/MoMA PS1 of New York, Constructo of Santiago de Chile, Istanbul Modern (Turkey) and MMCA, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (Korea).

A gigantic green dinosaur, a neon flying saucer, a rainbow and myriad coloured lights. The winner this year is the installation MAXXI Temporary School: The museum is a school. A school is a Battleground by the Milan studio Parasite 2.0: three sets that reproduce with elements in wood, rubber and metal, animal shapes and fragments of nature.

Fantastical settings, references from diverse cultures, fragments of nature and pop-up details providing backdrops for visitors’ selfies: interaction with the public is fundamental to this year’s project. All the structures have green as their dominant colour, which is read as a green screen by a special web application created for the project: yap2016.fondazionemaxxi.it.

Weaving the Museum: 2 architects, 5 km of rope,  & a former schoolhouse called MoMA PS1 

YAP’s winners Escobedo Soliz are building their temporary installation “weaving the courtyard”. Is not an object or a sculpture standing in the courtyard, but a series of simple actions that generate new and different atmospheres. The architects plan to use the existing holes in the courtyard's concrete walls, created when they were cast, as the framework for a woven canopy made up of brightly colored rope. They use the materials as they are, without altering their original state, therefore in the end of the summer these materials can be reused, for their usual purposes.