Large, light, yellow, suspended over the MAXXI piazza, the temporary He installation by bam! bottega di architettura metropolitana will be inaugurated to the public on 25 June. The installation, which won the 2013 Young Architect's Program (YAP) at the MAXXI, will be unveiled alongside proposals at the NY MoMA/MoMA PS1, Santiago de Chile's Constructo and, for the first time, Istanbul Modern.
He is a large volume suspended above the MAXXI piazza that creates a cool, shaded space during the day. At night, the structure transforms into a luminous and evocative lantern, accompanying the evenings and events promoted within the YAP Summer Program. The structure uses lightness, transparency, innovation and flexibility to enhance the museum's role as a place in which culture, fun and free time may converse. During the day, the perimeter of the prism drips water to ideally delimit the space beneath the volume and create a refreshing curtain for the public. The colour and the transparency of the material, contrasting with MAXXI's external walls, donate surprising chromatic reflections that vary with the light over the course of the day.
“The Young Architects Program is one of the best responses to MAXXI’s mission as a crucible of ideas and a workshop for new talents,” President of the Fondazione MAXXI Giovanna Melandri states. “I believe that the strength of this year’s winning YAP MAXXI project again lies in the experimental and innovative approach to the theme of public space," states Director of MAXXI Architettura Margherita Guccione. "A dialogue with the great building by Zaha Hadid played out on the poetic and evocative level, thanks to a playful, impalpable installation capable of donating wellbeing to visitors and a new skyline to the Museum piazza”.
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