Work — Matthew D. Boker

Lindrikatt

Pratt Institute

Critic: Robert Cervellione

Team: Lindsay Schragen, Ulrika Lindell

Lindrikatt explores an adaptable green wall facade system which integrates structure, skin, glass, plants and an irrigation system for water delivery. Using parametric design and scripting methods in conjunction with physical paper folding techniques, our team worked together to explore new ways and modes that building components can operate, which respond to specific local conditions, yet remain as a cohesive organic global whole. The facade system we proposed is a folded aluminum composite panel system with integrated structure, glazing and insulation with optional pocketing for plants and plant material. The base unit arrayed over the field makes up a facade with different degrees of folds, responding to different factors of program, access to light, and size of the plant. The project also explores a secondary system of apertures in three different sizes, providing a variation of intensities of light filtering through the facade and creating spatial effects. The secondary score lines also create an exterior network of light strips that illuminate at night as well as highlight the geometry of the fold. After collaborating on the design, we fabricated a portion of the facade at full scale (12’x16’) using the CNC to cut the composite aluminum pieces (sponsored by Dibond), to display in a gallery opening in the Hazel & Robert Siegel gallery in Higgins Hall. The wall now serves as a permanent installation outside the auditorium in Higgins.

The Making Of Parametric Systems + Form // Green Wall // LINDRIKATT

PrattSIDE Pavilion

Pratt Institute

Advisor: Mark Parsons

Team: Danica Salem, Emma Weiss, Agathe Ceccaldi, PrattSIDE Members

The Putnam Triangle Canopy was designed and built by PrattSIDE -
an organization of graduate and undergraduate architecture students from the neighboring Pratt Institute. I lead PrattSIDE as the Project Manager, collaborating on the design, then leading fabrication at Pratt’s School of Architecture, and construction with 30 volunteers of architecture students and friends.

Developed to respond to community requests for additional shade in the plaza, the rope canopy also provides additional seating and planting to further enliven the space and create a visual landmark for the Putnam Triangle. This temporary structure was designed to be easily adapted, reused or replicated in other plazas in the city.

Putnam Triangle Canopy is a collaborative project of PrattSIDE, Fulton Area Business Alliance and Pratt Center for Community Development supported by NYC Department of Transportation. It was financed by the Taconic Fellowship grant and Neighborhood Plaza Partnership in collaboration with IOBY through generous donations by our supporters.

Recombinant SOHO

Pratt Institute

Critic: David Ruy

Beijing- The Recombinant SOHO housing project is the future of China's urban context, as mass urbanization and population growth continue to densify its cities and urban housing projects. The specific extreme density and architectural conditions of this project in Beijing, China, along with its presence within the news and social media, video game design and environmental health investigations, are an early projection for the rest of China's urbanity. At the present rate, space and form is being redefined, manifesting in possible future replicants of this adapted SOHO project.

Featured in suckerPUNCH.

a documentary on life in Recombinant SOHO...

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MOTOlab

Pratt Institute

Critic: Erich Shoenenberger + Hart Marlow

Team: Ulrika Lindell, Dan Hoch

In the heart of downtown New Orleans, just off the Mississippi River, Urban Overlay collects the convergence of circulation traffic patterns and offers them a public gathering place highlighting the potential of algae production and all its offerings. The friction of these converging paths and individual programs creates an overlap, fusing new programmatic experiences. Algae is grown in the facade, harvested and processed through the spa and distributed to both interior programs and posterior export. Light is essential for photosynthetic growth, so the building is bright both day and night, highlighting the algae's bioluminescent qualities and creating a building that truly is a beacon of algae production to the future New Orleans.

UBERcyle

Pratt Institute

Critic: Ferda Kolatan

Strategies of the Weird. Spring 2015.

River Terrace

Pratt Institute

Critic: Ludovica Tramontin

The urban, mixed-use residential complex TerrazoVerde offers an alternative to traditional apartment living through continuous sweeping ramps and terraces that interconnect condo living with circulation paths and grand views of New York’s East river at Hallet’s Point. Through a system of site specific parameters, the form undulates outwards to views and inward to its own terraces, playing between public and private living communities. With vegetated grand scale terraces, the adjacent park continues into condo living. The complex houses its own kayak launch and integrates the river board walk and bike trail for active outdoor lifestyles.