Lumen, an immersive, interactive installation by Jenny Sabin Studio, will be on view in MoMA PS1‘s courtyard beginning June 29. Winner of The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1‘s annual Young Architects Program, this year’s structure evolves over the course of the day, with responsive textiles that display subtle color in sunlight and emit glowing light after sundown.
Lumen serves as the setting for the 20th season of Warm Up, MoMA PS1‘s pioneering outdoor music series, incorporating a custom lighting program to complement these vibrant, popular events. Lumen will remain on view through the summer.
Made of over 1,000,000 yards of digitally knitted and robotically woven fiber, Lumen features two large-scale cellular canopies with 250 hanging tubular structures that create opportunities for visitors to interact with the work. The design incorporates 100 robotically woven recycled spool stools and a misting system that responds to visitors’ proximity to produce a refreshing micro-climate.
Socially and environmentally responsive, Lumen‘s adaptive architecture is inspired by collective levity, play and interaction as the structure transforms throughout the day and night, responding to the density of bodies, heat, and sunlight. The result of collaboration across disciplines, Lumen by Jenny Sabin Studio applies insights and theories from biology, materials science, mathematics, and engineering—integrating high-performing, formfitting and adaptive materials into a structure where code, pattern, human interaction, environment, geometry, and matter operate together.