This event will be conducted in-person only in room 215F. 

The lecture is part of Thorsten Helbig and Christian Rieser ARCH 132 Structures II Course. Matthew Ostrow will give a presentation on the Shed, a movable structure in Hudson Yards, and a temporary structure for this year’s Venice Biennale.  Matthew utilizes a catia based process to guide design, coordination, and to bridge language gaps between engineering and fabrication via parametric definitions of geometry. A class conversation will follow the presentation.

The Shed is an 18,500 m² cultural start-up dedicated to commissioning, producing, and presenting works across the performing arts, visual arts, and popular culture. Located on city-owned land where the High Line meets the new Hudson Yards district, The Shed comprises a fixed structure with a stack of column-free galleries encased within a telescoping outer shell that slides onto an adjoining plaza, allowing the building to double its footprint on demand. Reinterpreting industrial scale gantry crane technology, the steel and ETFE shell can deploy in five minutes using the horsepower of a single automobile. This exuberant volume of light-, sound-, and temperature-controlled space is conceived as a highly flexible open infrastructure.

The Bookstore of the Future is a temporary nomadic structure for the 2025 Biennale, done in collaboration with sbp [schlaich bergermann partner].  This 140 m² enclosed and conditioned structure will house the bookshop for the 2025 Architectural Biennale and then pack up and travel to future locations.  This Robert Le Recolais inspired structure spans 24m clear and is wrapped with a transparent structural skin.

Matthew Ostrow is an Associate Principal at DS+R and has founded his own award-winning firm OH.  Matthew has also been a visiting assisting professor at the Pratt Institute and the Parsons School of Design and is a graduate of the Cooper Union (Barch ’09).

This lecture is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.