Architecture Portfolio
matthew baumann Design Genesis
“Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.� - Spiro Kostof
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matthew baumann
mbaumann602@gmail.com 1615 Denison Ave. #317 Manhattan, KS 66502 913.702.6275
Education
College of Architecture, Planning, and Design, Kansas State University Masters of Architecture 5 year accredited program 2016 3.468 Cumulative GPA Midwest Student Exchange Scholarship AIAS
Skill Set
Adobe: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Auto desk: Revit Architecture, 3ds-Max Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Power Point Other: ArcGIS, Rhino, Hand Drafting, Model Building, Rendering, Sketching, Diagramming, Site Planning
Honors & Involvements Dean’s Honor List, Academic Year 2013 Freshman and Sophomore years’ work displayed in department building. Bowman Forum, KS (Fall 2013)- Design a Center for the Crafts where professionals can lecture and teach personalized studios. Burton Design Competition, NY (Spring 2014)- Design a One-Artist Museum on Manhattan Island for the Arts District. Manko Design Competition, KS (In progress)- Design a Whole Body Fitness Center for the Crossroads District in Kansas City.
Roman Link Spring 2014
Giovannitti House Fall 2012
Prow House Fall 2012
Manhattan Public Library Fall 2013
Flint Hills Crafts Center Fall 2013
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Roman Link London, England
This design proposal served as a viewing pavilion set in London’s historic district. The narrow site parallels the ruins of an ancient Roman wall that had once encircled the city. The pavilion continues along this path, engaging with One London Wall designed by Norman Foster and Partners, and spanning over a major thoroughfare. The pavilion acts as a bridging gesture that reconstitutes the Roman wall. An expansive steel space frame supports a viewing platform of the ruins for pedestrians. It emerges from the ground, supporting program that spans above the thoroughfare at the elevated ground floor plane of the Barbican Centre. This is also where the current Museum of London entrance is located. A secondary viewing space lies at the end of the pavilion where the ancient ruins re-emerge as “Cripplegate.” The encapsulating space frame of the program not only serves as structural stability, but a visual ‘linking’ element. It takes on a dynamic expression, drawing attention to the ending and the beginning of this city’s historic vestige.
Above: The narrow site follows along Noble Street and connects to ‘One London Wall.’ Above Right: View from existing suspended walkway of Cripplegate ruins.
Space Frame acts as dynamic ‘linking’ element, tying together the submerged viewing platform with program above the thoroughfare.
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Below: Triodetic space frame joint made of simple connections without bolts or rivets, and MERO connections. Below Right: Site analysis of traffic convergence at Noble Street and London Wall.
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Giovannitti House Case Study Pittsburg, PA
This analysis was a partnered case study of the Giovannitti House, designed by renowned architect Richard Meier. The residential project was a diagram of intersecting cubic volumes, within which Meier is able to afford the owners smaller personalized spaces within a grand gesture. It disengages itself from the street condition and retreats into the sloping landscape. Many of the views attempt to give the impression of expanse beyond the site and are strategically located within the building floor plan. The main ‘cube’ is an elevated three story volume off of the main level and houses much of the program in one vertical breadth. The secondary volume provides the necessary service functions of the kitchen and garage and is cut into the slope of the site. All of the residential spaces, within their respective volumes, fall along an organizational grid. This approach delegates between circulation and inhabited zones, providing a dialogue of contrasts with open and closed space.
Below Left: Cubic voids help establish an outdoor realm that remains connected to the interior program. Below Center: An ordered grid align design elements with an expanding and constricting dialogue. Below Right: Meier’s characteristic piano curve serves to ‘pinch’ movement on the lowest level, contributing to this sense of constricting and expanding.
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Above: 2nd Level Top Right: Main Level Bottom Right: Lower Level
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Prow House Potawatomi Lake Manhattan, KS
The proposal serves as a vacation retreat for conservationists, a house set on a plinth that overlooks Potawatomi State Park in Manhattan, KS. The split-level approach following a grid aspires to Richard Meier’s residential design methods. Visitors enter at grade along an eastwest axis, mediating between the served and service spaces. Vertical circulation terminates at the end of the axis, with views directed outwards to the Potawatomi Lake. The architectural intent of the design is to prow out from the landscape, carving into the sloping terrain, and take advantage of expansive views with a split-level vantage. The entry axis acts almost as a channel, splitting the design so as to make the programmatic diagram more perceptible to viewers. Sustainable methods were also taken into consideration with thermal integration on the lower level and passive solar heating in the welllighted living and dining spaces on the upper level.
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Above: Plan diagrams indicating division of service and served spaces in bold line weight. Below Left: Passive solar heating and cooling methods through application of Meier’s butterfly roof. Below Right: The sectional diagram represents the spatial overlap of the split-level approach, as well as how
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Precedent for a Library Surry Hills, Australia
This case study analysis of the Surry Hills Library, designed by Australianbased practice, Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp, contributed to the tenants of the following Manhattan Public Library project. Encompassing a similar arrangement of program, Surry Hills Library fills its compact site and exploits every architectural means to inflate its scale as a new urban icon. The library is not a singular typology, but a hybrid with the aim of achieving transparency within its context. This allows the facility to be inviting and openly accessible to public view. A formal element wraps around the primary activities of the centre, helping to establish secondary use. These spatial implications are directly translated from the interior to the exterior. A tapered glass atrium on the southern facade adds to the sense of layered transparency and acts as a passive air cooling and filtering mechanism. The design incorporated other sustainable measures and exists as a responsive environment that can generate energy on site.
Above: Cross section of glass atrium and rainwater collection tank underneath the public park.
Above: Grand staircase functions as primary circulation route. Below: East elevation along Crown Street.
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Manhattan Public Library CiCo Park, Manhattan, KS
Using the Surry Hills Library by FJMT as a precedent, this project serves as a branch library for Manhattan, Kansas in anticipation of westward city expansion. The site location falls within CiCo Park and across from the Manhattan Area Technical College, zoned as Single-Family Residential. The design strives to connect to the street condition and establish a sense of identity within the area. It makes a wrapping gestural move in plan, where the facility engages itself and the various program. This gesture conveys protection within the community, providing a refuge of learning to its residents. The node in the wrapping form creates a more private realm, and a terraced landscape descends from the pedestrian level and into the lobby space. The lobby space is situated at the juncture between the two ‘arms’ of the form. One arm services the adult library stacks, elevating to a cantilever looking out towards the Technical College. The other services the youth, with a green roof space for outdoor reading and enjoyment.
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Below: Wrapping gesture allows for crossing of visual fields, giving the facility an interconnected atmosphere. Right: Exploded programmatic diagram Middle Right: Exploded structural assembly of adult reading unit. The automated louver system is affixed to a cable and steel frame. Far Right: Tectonic assemblage of program.
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Flint Hills Center of the Crafts Wildcat Creek, Manhattan, KS
The design of the Flint Hills Center of the Crafts was inspired by the dynamism of its prairie location in the reserves near Wildcat Creek in Manhattan, KS. A strong relationship between the craft studio spaces (glassblowing, metalworking, and ceramics) and the showroom of completed work drove the concept. The functions of the center are distinguished by juxtaposing integration within the site. The studios and administrative spaces are submerged within the landscape, defined by a reveal that allows for an entry proscenium. The administrative program encompasses offices and a resource library, while the educational program includes the creative studios and a lecture hall for guest speakers. Public gathering is located at the end of the entry sequence, and the viewing gallery is suspended above from a service core. The gallery is the ‘jewel’ of the design, joining the educational and administrative programs. It hovers above the prairie, flowing with it in the application of a wind arbor. The center strives for functionality and aesthetic beauty.
Top Left: Site rendering demonstrating the submerged nature of the crafts center. Middle Left: Phenomenal device re-creates the natural undulating patterns of wind through a prairie. Bottom Left: Patterns of light passing through a canopy. Below: Wind arbor assembly, inspired by Ned Kahn Studios.
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Conceptual aesthetic mimicry of the prairie is executed with the application of a wind arbor inspired by the sculptural work of Ned Kahn. The wind arbor consists of thousands of ‘flappers’ on the facade of the gallery. These flappers react to the wind currents and through the process of vibro-wind technology, could potentially be used for harnessing wind energy from the site. Coupled with the design of the entry proscenium as a rain garden collection system that passively injects clean air into the HVAC system, the center becomes a self-sustaining work of architecture that finds its identity in the land.
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