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PERFORMA BIENNIAL -HUB AT COOPER UNION |
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New York, USA
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For the Ground Floor space of the new Cooper Union's building on Cooper Square, nOffice have been commissioned to design and construct a symbiosis of Performa's central hub - the Biennial's central meeting and screening place, lecture hall, bookshop and lounge - and a pavilion in which nOffice will broadcast an architectural statement.
The pavilion is the direct physical and architectural manifestation of the statement. Acknowledging that they are not performance artists, nOffice explore the thin line between being understood as architects rather than service providers. The practice interprets architecture as providing and enhancing the performance of matter, but still maintain autonomy of production.
The space at the Cooper Union will be designed as a coherent environment yet will embody a multiplicity of diverse voices, a democratic archipelago in which hidden structures expose subliminal yet intended narratives. A long and tall wall, which follows the section of a lowered ceiling and produces two kinds of spatial conditions: an open field in which directly visible programmes will take place, as well as a series of pockets, dug into the wall. - |
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Local architect: Nate Lindsey
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Photographer: Bradley Jones
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Commission
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2009
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