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In the grand tradition of MoMA PS1 s Young Architects Program winners, Andrés Jaque s plan for COSMO addresses an ecological need through installation architecture. While 2014 s Hy-Fi by the living explored organic bricks and 2012 s Wendy by HWKN addressed airborne pollution, Jaque has set his targets on something that is apparently much more political: water. This article, originally published by Metropolis Magazine as The Politics of Water: Andrés Jaque on His 2015 MoMA PS1 YAP Winning Design, examines how Jaque hopes to turn his installation into a political talking point.
At first glance, Bill Gates’s robotic Janicki Omniprocessor and Andrés Jaque’s winning proposal for the 2015 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program (YAP) share a similar goal they each tackle the problem of global water scarcity, which has become exacerbated by climate change, political strife, and a host of other factors. But while the Omniprocessor looks
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