Walls That Work: Spectacle to Street | Pratt Institute | MSUD

This project re-imagines the wall not as a boundary, but as an active social and infrastructural agent. Set within the context of a stadium’s edge, the wall becomes a multi-functional framework that shifts roles between game days and everyday urban life. It collects, distributes, filters, guides, shades, and gathers; working as circulation, program, and interface.

On game days, it choreographs crowd flow, hosts vending and ticketing, and amplifies collective energy. Off-season, it transforms into an adaptable civic spine: supporting markets, classrooms, youth sports, or simply places to pause. Built to adapt in form and use, the wall resists static monumentality and instead embodies flexibility, porosity, and publicness.

It is not about the object. It’s about the intervals it creates. Walls that work — because they are always in use, always in negotiation.