In Progress: sTARTT "WHATAMI" at the MAXXI

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“WHATAMI”, winner of the 2011 Young Architect Program at the MAXXI, is beginning to take shape. This summer installation is situated within the exterior spaces of the museum and is the result of a partnership between MoMA’s P.S.1 and the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome. Simultaneously Interboro Partners‘ “Holding Pattern” will on display at the MoMA in New York and sTARTT’s winning design “WHATAMI” at Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI.

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The winning design by Italian architects sTARTT generates an artificial landscape within a previously concrete plateau space. Complete with an archipelago-hill, gardens, and areas to kick back either taking in a concert or the museum itself WHATAMI’s materials for the installation involve a two-fold recycling process, the supplying of the materials for the construction (straw, geo-textile, plastic) and the dismantling of the “hill” (turf, lighting).

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Cite: Kelly Minner. "In Progress: sTARTT "WHATAMI" at the MAXXI" 23 Jun 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/145184/in-progress-startt-whatami-at-the-maxxi> ISSN 0719-8884

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