COSMO: Give me a pipe and I will move/celebrate the Earth

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, as we have published before, was chosen the winner of the 16th edition of the YAP at the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1. We present now these great pictures of Miguel de Guzmán of COSMO project.

COSMO by Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán.

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation in COSMO aims to highlight the issue of at the moment in wich we find ourselves. Leading to debate and creating this prototype that purifies water.

Description of the project by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation

More than 2 billion gallons of water circulate everyday beneath New York City. COSMO is a movable artifact, made out of customized irrigation components, to make visible and enjoyable the so-far hidden urbanism of pipes we live by. An assemblage of ecosystems, based on advanced environmental design, engineered to filter and purify 3.000 gallons of water; eliminating suspended particles and nitrates, balancing the PH, and increasing the level of dissolved oxygen.

The United Nations estimates that by 2025 two thirds of the global population will live in countries that lack sufficient water. COSMO is designed as both an offline and an online prototype. Its purpose it to trigger awareness, and to be easily reproduced all around the world, giving people access to drinking water, and to a dialogue about it. But above all, COSMO is a party-artifact that moves to go there wherever the party happens. It is a device meant to gather people together, as pleasant and climatically comfortable as a garden and at the same time as visually rich as a mirrored disco ball. As a result of a complex biochemical design, its stretched-out plastic mesh glows automatically whenever its water has been purified. With COSMO, the party is literally lit up every time the environment is being protected.

CREDITS. DATA SHEET.-

Architect.- Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
Team.- Andrés Jaque, Patrick Craine, Jocelyn Froimovich, Roberto González García, Laura Mora, Sebastian Bech-Ravn, Yannan Chen, Ilgaz Kayaalp, Nicolò Lawanski, Jorge López Conde, Senne Meesters, Jorge Noguera Facuseh, James Quick, Jarča Slamova.
Research on the politics of water.- Iván López Munuera. Research on urban infrastructures and water in New York.- Esteban de Guido de Backer.
Structure Engineering.- BAC Engeneering and Consultancy Group. Xavier Aguiló i Aran, Rodrigo Martín, Jaume Vallès, Hugo Díez.
Ecosystem Design.- Asepma. Jochen Scheerer. Hydraulic Engineering.- ARUP. Sebastian Lopez, David Dubrow. Electrical Engineering.- ARUP. Michael Incontrera. Lighting Engineering.- Antonia Peón-Veiga.
NYU Department of Interaction Science.- Arlen Bitsky, Ernie Gerardo, Hovsep Agop, Oskar Noam, Anneka Goss, Charles Deluga, Omayeli Arenyeka, Leslie Martinez, Sriya Sarkar, Nadia Palachkina, Dana Karwas
Models, web platform and app.- Miguel Mesa del Castillo, Joaquín García Vincente, Anna Melgarejo, Tatiana Poggi, FABLAB, PROYECTOS ARQUITECTÓNICOS, UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE, AD HOC.
Photography Director.- Imagen Subliminal. Miguel de Guzmán.
Audiovisuals.- Bollería Industrial. Paula Currás, Ana Olmedo, Eugenio Fernández Sánchez, Enrique Ventosa.
Voice artist.- Lee Buckley.
NYC Department of Environmental Protection.- Corinne Martin, Kim Estes-Fradis.
Ecosystemic Production.- Michelles Hofet, Abreu Lucas, Rennie Lauren Jones, J. P. Buonocore, Yoonseok Lee, Michelle Ida Kleinman, Yannan Chen, Jiaying Fan, Dihua Yan
Botanical Advise.- Queens Botanical Garden. Rebecca Wolf.
Gardens and Ecosystems.- Balmori Associates, Camilla Hammer, GRNASFCK, Julia Frederick, Patio Interior and Marc Pascal, Regina Galvanduque and Andrés Mier y Terán, wHY, Paula Livingstone, Sofia Armanet, Verdant Gardens.
Advise.- Storefront for Art and Architecture, Pepe Cobo Gallery, Queens Botanical Garden.

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Floor of COSMO by Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation. Image courtesy of Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation.

Rendering of COSMO by Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation. Image courtesy of Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation.

Details of COSMO by Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation. Image courtesy of Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation.

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Andrés Jaque Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN)

Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN) es un estudio de arquitectura internacional, con sede en Nueva York y Madrid, que trabaja en la intersección del diseño, la investigación y las prácticas ambientales críticas. La oficina desarrolla proyectos que transcurren a través de escalas y medios, con el objetivo de integrar la inclusividad en el entorno construido.

Actualmente, la oficina trabaja en proyectos para Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, CA2M, Real Madrid, Colegio Reggio y Grupo La Musa; y entre sus clientes se incluyen Lafayette Anticipations, Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Fundación Cisneros, Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y Suelo de Madrid, Matadero-Madrid, Obispado de Plasencia, Feria ARCO, London Design Museum, Power Station of Art (Shanghai), Fundació Mies van der Rohe y MAK Vienna.

En 2016, OFFPOLINN recibió el Premio Frederick Kiesler de Arquitectura y Artes de la Ciudad de Viena. El estudio también ha sido galardonado con el LEÓN DE PLATA al Mejor Proyecto de Investigación en la 14.ª Bienal de Venecia y con el Premio Dionisio Hernández Gil.

La obra de OFFPOLINN forma parte de las colecciones del MoMA y del Instituto de Arte de Chicago, entre muchas otras, y ha sido objeto de exposiciones individuales en el MoMA, el MoMA PS1, el MAK de Viena, la Universidad de Princeton, el Centro de Arte Contemporáneo RED CAT Cal Arts de Los Ángeles, la Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine de París y Tabacalera de Madrid. También se ha exhibido en el Instituto de Arte de Chicago, el Zentrum für Kunst und Medien ZKM (Karlsruhe), el Museo de Diseño de Londres, la Whitechapel Gallery (Londres), el Z33 (Hasselt), el Museo Suizo de Arquitectura (Basilea), las trienales de arquitectura de Lisboa y Oslo, y las bienales de arquitectura de Venecia, Chicago, Gwanju, São Paulo, Santiago de Chile y Seúl.

Andrés Jaque, holds a Ph.D. in architecture. He is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation, an international architectural practice, based in New York and Madrid, working at the intersection of design, research, and critical environmental practices.. He is also the Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York.

In 2014 he received the Silver Lion at the 14th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia.

He is the author of award-winning projects such as Plasencia Clergy House (Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize), House in Never Never Land (Mies Van der Rohe European Union Award's finalist), TUPPER HOME (X Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo), or ESCARAVOX (COAM Award 2013). He has also developed architectural performances as well as installations that question political frameworks through architectural practice; including IKEA Disobedients (MoMA Collection, 2011); PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (Mies Barcelona Pavilion, 2012) or Superpowers of Ten (Lisbon Triennale, 2014).

Andrés Jaque is a Professor of Advanced Design at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) and Visiting Professor at Princeton University's School of Architecture.

Miguel de Guzmán

Miguel de Guzmán born in Rio de Janeiro in 1972. He is an architect (ETSAM. 1998) and also architectural photographer. He has been professor in the Graphic Ideation Department at CEU Architecture School and the Photography Department of Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid. Since 2008 Imagen Subliminal is the broadcast platform through which he shows his work as photographer and videographer. As an Architect, he has been awarded with the Dionisio Hernadez Gil Prize for the Diocesan Priest House in Plasencia (work done together with Andres Jaque and Enrique Krahe), and was selected for the 2005 Spanish Architecture Bienal. As a Photographer he has been finalist in ABC Journal Art Awards 2000, El Mundo Photography awards 2001. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions (Circuitos de Arte Joven, Galeria Vírgenes, Photo España…). The book "Miguel de Guzmán Architectural Photography" contains a selection of photographs taken between the years 2003 and 2013, and which give example of a new way in the making of architectural photography.

Published on: July 2, 2015

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