Buffer Space questions a major programmatic and museological dilemma: that places like Madison Square Garden, a.k.a. "the World's Most Famous Arena" attract a broader audience, and are more coercive in terms of the general public they draw in. By hosting dog shows, sporting events, political party conventions and pop concerts they have a stronger emotional impact compared than exhibitions and events at the MET or the MoMA. Not to mention "postponed" Guggenheims & Louvres around the world or the Parish Museum extension by Herztog & de Meuron that are being redesigned with a drastically reduced budget (15 million USD instead of 80 million USD).
Investigating the risk of a museum without permanent location or collection and probably even without any conventional cultural program, the Buffer space implements the Fragmental Museum's call to consider existing fragments of space, time and culture by nesting an urban public space that uses anonymous architectural vocabulary inspired by fire stairs, multi-level car park structures and construction scaffolding, all of which are symptomatic of New York and its density.