P.F. 1, or Public Farm 1, has brought an urban farm to MoMA’s P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens. The project by New York City based WORK Architecture Company is the winner of P.S. 1’s annual summer Young Architects Program, the purpose of which is “to provide emerging young talent in architecture with the chance to prepare and present architectural solutions for a specific site.” That “specific site” is the courtyard of P.S. 1, which during the summer plays host to the popular Warm Up Music Series, perhaps the largest urban “beach party” in the United States, giving thousands of museum going revelers the opportunity to see, experience, dance and party hard within the architectural installation.

Public Farm 1 is an experiment in sustainable urban farming composed of a groups of mounted cardboard tubes. The tubes are mounted throughout the courtyard with the more prominent part of the installation structured into a form similar to a flying carpet landing on the space. Swings, fans, mist, innovative seating areas are situated in nooks throughout the installation and a refreshing pool is located in its center. Within the tubes various plants and vegetables are grown. The entire installation is constructed with sustainable materials that will be recycled after the structure is taken down.

You can takepart in bringing sustainable urban farming to a city near you by logging onto urbanfarming.org.

LINKS:

Green Zone: P.F. 1: a monument to the urban garden

Art Observed: Go See: P.F. 1 at P.S. 1/MOMA in Queens, NY Through September 31

Tien Mao’s Little Read Book: P.F. 1 at P.S. 1