| Montage of iconic Manhattan buildings | Music | 00:00 |
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| MAHER: Iconic architecture and New York City go hand in hand. But this summer New Yorkers have something in their midst they’ve not seen before… | 00:16 |
| ‘Burst’ house at MoMA | Music | 00:25 |
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| GAUTHIER: A beach shack is exciting | 00:44 |
| Gauthier | because it’s energetic, it’s popular. It’s kinda hip I think. | 00:45 |
| Inside ‘Burst’ | Music | 00:49 |
| Bergdoll | BERGDOLL: The spectacle of this village in the canyons of the skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan is quite unexpected. | 00:52 |
| ‘Burst’ | Music | 00:58 |
| Edmiston | EDMISTON: I think it looks really great from Sixth Avenue. I think it has a real presence in the city. | 01:03 |
| ‘Burst’ exterior | Music | 01:07 |
| Gauthier inside ‘Burst’ | GAUTHIER: This is a fabulous spot to stand, because you actually see the thing wrapping around you and coming away from you. You feel the geometry in that corner. | 01:12 |
| Edmiston and Gauthier inside ‘Burst’ | This is the burst that made its way through the skin and became a skylight. | 01:20 |
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| MAHER: Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier are the architects behind Burst -- a prefabricated plywood holiday house first designed for a family on the north coast of New South Wales. | 01:28 |
| Inside MoMA | Music | 01:40 |
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| MAHER: It’s now found its way here -- to the world’s leading museum of modern art -- the MoMA. | 01:45 |
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| Music | 01:52 |
| Exterior of ‘Burst’ | MAHER: Only five houses from around the world were selected for display amongst the Rothkos, De Koonings and Pollocks at MoMA’s Summer exhibition of prefabricated homes. | 02:09 |
| Houses at Home Delivery exhibition | BERGDOLL: We threw our net incredibly wide. I would have been attracted to Burst even if it wasn’t made the way it was, even though this is a show about the process of thinking | 02:23 |
| Bergdoll. Super: | and how it goes into the process of making and vice versa. Burst is just a fantastic piece of architecture, brilliantly formally inventive, intriguing. | 02:32 |
| Home Delivery exhibits | MAHER: A showcase of innovative manufacturing and imaginative design, Home Delivery has proved a crowd pleaser. | 02:40 |
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| BERGDOLL: It’s enormously popular for all sorts of reasons. One obviously, people love to look at other people’s houses. So even if they’re only notionally someone else’s house, everyone goes out to house tours, to decorators’ houses. So we were assured that we’d get a public if you were told you could go to the Museum of Modern Art and see five houses of the 21st century, and go inside them. | 02:49 |
| Digital representation of ‘Burst’ | Music | 03:11 |
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| MAHER: It’s disarmingly simple in appearance, but Burst is a structure on the cutting edge of technology and design. | 03:16 |
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| Its twisting, sculptural form is generated by a computer, and is assembled on site from 1,100 laser-cut pieces of plywood. | 03:24 |
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| EDMISTON: There’s no way to arrive at that twisting form easily without the computer. | 03:37 |
| Edmiston | The twisting is about creating the right conditions to take advantage of the cross-ventilation on site and we control the kinds of views and the kinds of light the house has through the twisting of the form. | 03:42 |
| Night shots of Manhattan architectural icons | Music | 04:02 |
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| MAHER: In a city forever pushing the boundaries of art and design, | 04:22 |
| ‘Burst’ at MoMA | this Aussie beach shack isn’t as out of place as first it might seem. In fact, Burst’s sheer inventiveness, its ambition to challenge and to discover new architectural frontiers, make it very much at home. | 04:26 |
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| BERGDOLL: It’s a house which is at the cutting edge of applying the forces of digital fabrication to making something. | 04:43 |
| Bergdoll | It really is something which you wonder if historically people look back and see as the beginning of something. | 04:56 |
| Burst | Music | 05:04 |
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| Reporter: Michael Maher Camera: Louie Eroglu Editor: Woody Landay | 05:20 |