‘Whatami’, a temporary installation by roman architectural practice stARTT is open to the puplic. Taking place the first time in Italy, of Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi Museum in Rome. It transformed the external space of the Museum into a garden of undulating green island peppered with abstract, poppy-red sculptures. The artificial landscape develops a unique public environment where individuals can relax and contemplate the sinuous lines of hadid’s now-iconic structure. The event is a collateral project of MoMA PSI, a young architects program of New York City.
An archipelago of eight individual islands is build on a mobil structure of straw bales covered in astroturf. The central island, measuring two meters in height is fixed in place, while seven smaller pods are mounted on wheels. Shaded by day
and illuminated at night by eighteen-five-meter-tall fiberglass flowers, the constructed environment aims to be as attractive as it is attentive to environmental issues.
On october 16, 2011, when the installation is dismantled its materials will be donated to the city where they will be used again.
