Andrew Martin
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Contents Architecture | Engineering Section | Structure | Shape
Details
Eames House #8 Remix
Happiness | Design | Build The Nomadic Chair
Industry | Environment | Culture Community Recycled
Politics | Decolonization
A Truth and Reconciliation Commission Archive
Connections | Timber | Technology Parabolic Timber: -Parabolic Perception -Hyper Space
Revit
Chicken Point Cabin
Public Space
Charleson Park Community Centre
Education
University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture 2012-present 04 D01
Simon Fraser University Bachelor of Arts, Economics 5504
Experience
219 Pipeline Construction Foreman / Labour 2007- 2012
Greenfeet Organic Gardens 50mm polished CIP concrete floor Design/Construct ploy-ethylene 2009 - 2011 169mm CLT panel Glaoran Construction Ltd. Labour 2006 - 2007
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National Lacrosse League Professional Player 2001 – 2008
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Auto Cad Rhino Adobe Creative Suite Revit 50mm polished CIP concrete floor 3ds Max hydronic in-slad conduits Sketch Up 134mm reinforced CIP concrete floor slab
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50mm EPS insulation 25mm sand gravel backfill
Travel
Central America Australia; Fiji East Coast USA Mexico/Central America Pacific USA and Baja South East Asia India
Interests
Photography, Old Stuff, Hiking, Travel, Growing Food, Making Furniture
Exhibition / Competition
Fast and Epp 2014 Architectural Engineering Design Competition Section Structure Shape (Honourable Mention)
Assemblage Design Build Competition 2014 Parabolic Perception (1st Place Selection) Hyper Space (2nd Place Selection)
SALA Studio Design Competition 2012/2013 Nomadic Chair
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Extending smoothly from the edge of the channel is a canopy system of glulam ribs. The ribs serve to exaggerate the sectional variation of the bridge along with the creation of different spaces and preference views. Both the density and coverage of canopy elements change in accordance to the curvature of the bridge, allowing transparency and openness along some segments, while providing opacity and enclosure along others.
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The bridge’s winding shape presents an opportunity to vary the sectional depth of the bridge in order to span a range of distances. In order to maintain fluidity in the structural language, the body of the bridge is a continuous channel constructed purely of glue laminated timber, carved into shape using CNC technology, and assembled in segments. The structural performance can be read in the changing height of the channel’s two edges, a set of curves that rises and falls along the length of the bridge.
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Configuration of the site across Griffiths Drive allowed the creation of a bridge that follows an unconventional path above the traffic. The snaking form produces a dynamic relationship between the flow of pedestrians and traffic and mediates visual connection between the two levels of travel.
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University of British Columbia 2014 Structures 2 - Competition Instructor - AnnaLisa Meyboom Collaborators - Catherine He, Javier Derry (Engineering Consultant)
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Eames House #8 Remix University of British Columbia 2013 Architectural Technology 2 Instructor - Linda Brock Collaborators - Rory Fulber, Andy Hawkinson, Nick Macleod
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The project asked students to choose two specific building materials to investigate, then select an existing building and relocate it to Greater Vancouver. Our group chose Eames House # 8 and reconstructed it with CLT panels and Aerogel. We chose the house because of its modular nature and its likely poor thermal performance. We selected the material because of its adaptability, availability, performance, and implications for sustainability.
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A set of documents was created to display the use of these materials in the new context, as well as their potential construction details. The following is a sample of this document. Results showed that CLT was a suitable material for use in Vancouver as it resists the vapour drive in the wet winter season. In combination with insulation and the thermal capacity of Aerogel panels, the Eames House was modified to suit a colder climate with more precipitation while sequestering more carbon.
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The Nomadic Chair University of British Columbia 2013 Happiest City Studio: 3+ Chair Design Build Instructor: Mari Fujita Collaborators: Yan Luo Our pursuit of happiness resulted in a chair design of contradiction between the desire to make a happiness generator and the multiplicity of users that resists any attempt at generalization. Our design simply splits the chair back and seat and gives the former to users and the latter to the ground. We studied proximity, ethics, as well as wood technology to produce the work. The chair is designed for modularity and has the potential to organize itself into a landscape that floats between the building fabric and social sphere. The number of users that can be hosted is for that reason dependent on the context the chair will be put in.
product test (i.k. barber learning centre)
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PLAN: Modularity and proximity effecting experience SCALE 1:20
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University of British Columbia 2013 The Happiest City Studio Instructor: Mari Fujita The studio considered what it means to be ‘happy’ and how architecture can design for these considerations. First I mapped ‘happiness’ in Grandview Woodland. Happiness for residence revolves around proximity to industry, green space and culture. Second, based on this a site was chosen to design for improved happiness. Once home to Vancouver’s shipbuilding industry, the chosen site is now adjacent to the city’s shipping port, unloading containers 24 hours a day. The life of a cargo ship is approximately 20 years before it is scrapped for metal. Cargo ship recycling typically occurs on the beaches of developing countries that have no environmental or labour laws. Growing outrage has created demand for more responsible solutions.
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The intervention is a education centre and pool, cross programmed with a ship breaking plant. This project connects the community to its shoreline and the spectacle of industry, while providing both a social space and a viable metal recycling industry. It creates jobs and brings visitors face to face with the end result of their daily consumption.
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- exposure to greenspace adds to happiness mentally/physically -its few parks are in community -tree lined boulivards
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-numerous nodes of Interface cultivating positive social experience
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- the highest percentage of working artists in Vancouver -celebrated by population in stores, mixed use galleries -murals fill wallspace
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Decommissioned ships unload for the last time then dock at the center for scrapping. The processed metal is then sent by rail back to the port and loaded on outgoing ships for recycling.
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Conceptualizing the Technical An Archive for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
University of British Columbia 2014 Comprehensive Studio Professor: John Bass Collaborators: Andy Hawkinson, Matt Lawton The Canadian Residential School policy, a forced assimilation, led to years of mental, physical, and sexual abuse of First Nation students. A TRC for Coastal First Nations will be located on UBC campus. It will store and process sensitive materials, record testimony, and educate. In this context a building has been designed that is archive and gallery. The gallery portion is a wood cantilever, clad in glass and screened in heavy timber. It is oriented on cardinal north, linking the TRC to the existing First Nation House of Learning, the only other building to break the campus grid. The ceremonial entrance leads to a vaulted gallery space which transitions into underground archive. The archive, below grade, returns the remainder of the site to nature while ensuring controlled conditions for the storage of documents. Courtyards draw the green space down into the archive, and provide daylighting, while allowing for rest and emotional reprieve for visitors.
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Assemblage Design Build Competition 2014 Parabolic Timber University of British Columbia Professor: AnnaLisa Meyboom, Blair Satterfield Collaborators: Yan Luo, Kimi Zhao How might the use of digital tools merge with the historic use of timber to create a new synthetic language of form and function? What might a resulting timber language be? The tradition, function, and aesthetic of wood joinery was analyzed without a site or design allowing assembly to be the generator. Later two distinct sites were provided, the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing, UBC, and another in Suzhou, China. The starting point is a focus on the traditional ‘lap joint’ and the desire to create fluid form with straight dimensional lumber. The hyperbolic parabola and its stacking potential were explored.
off cut study predicting connection stability
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Parabolic Perception
Centre for Advanced Wood Processing, University of British Columbia 1st place selection Status: unbuilt The main entrance and foyer overlooks the atrium of a lower secondary entrance. Our design goal was to use dimensional lumber to mediate the floor height difference exaggerated in the entrance space in the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing. A dynamic parabolic form that converges into and re-emerges from a shared concrete core links one space to the other. The intrusion creates an excitement of space commonly understood as void.
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Hyper Space
Suzhou, China 2nd place selection Unlike at UBC, the Chinese site is a large covered space with a grid of cement columns mediating two courtyards. Here the design intent is to collect empty spaces, slice them and redistribute them. By turning a flat plain into a topography, what was once a depressing void becomes a social generator that people engage and navigate. The hyperbolic parabola creates a undulating topography by converting end points of a grid within the site into corresponding numeric values.
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Chicken Point Cabin University of British Columbia 2014 Seminar in Advanced Computer Applications Professor: Blair Satterfield, Roy Coultier Case Study in Revit In this summer cabin, like all Tom Kundig’s work, there is a contrast and tension between the elemental and refined, the intuitive and the inventive. There is a craft that complements his use of basic materials, and a customization that reveals an understanding of each client. This house is inspired by its landscape and manipulates volume and movement through these spaces to dramatically preference its lake front view.
Revit is often criticized in architectural schools for its standardized characteristics; that the graphics reveal the software. Therefore in this case study I wished to challenge this conception solely within Revit.
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Charleson Park Community Centre University of British Columbia 2014 Obstructions for Public Architecture Instructor: Alexander Smith Site considerations such as topography, climate and intended program can become opportunities to shape design. Charleson Park, Vancouver, is characterized by nature, and water, both as obstacle and opportunity. The site is usually wet and underused but it has a waterfall and pond popular with visitors. The forest creates an edge condition separating park and city; a foot bridge connects the two. The intervention, a community centre, is day care, gymnasium, and cafe. It creates a dialogue between the form and the environment; the user and the form; and the interior and exterior inhabitants. It navigates the topography by a descending walkway that creates not only a relationship between the programs, but also a series of thresholds that provide a theoretical framework for the design. The promenade moves through the site culminating in a large public spacu over the pond. The activated void is framed by the cafe, gym, and forest. The covered seating below the daycare offers shelter from the rain or sun. What was once too muddy to use becomes an accessible and engaging social generator year round.
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Andrew Martin www.andrewjmartin.ca ajmartin77@yahoo.com 604 842 8882