MATTHEw JAY
BIANCO-SPLANN PORTFOLIO OF SELECTED WORKS
MATTHEW JAY BIANCO-SPLANN 7204-a 87th Ave Ct NW Gig Harbor, WA 98335 e. matthew@biancosplanco.com p. 518-813-0466 @biancosplanco
EDUCATION m.arch
university of southern california los angeles, ca graduated may 2017
b.a. design studies
arizona state university phoenix, az graduated may 2014
study abroad
usc american academy in china beijing/shanghai, cn summer 2015
SKILLS
www.biancosplanco.com
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE 3d hubs - campus ambassador
september 2015 - may 2017 responsible for bringing campus awareness and excitement about 3d hubs and helping to create accessible and affordable opportunities for 3d printing at usc. also included hosting skills workshops, tutorials, and presentations about “clean modeling” in rhino and 3dprint file prep.
adobe - student representative
august 2014 - january 2016 resposible for driving awareness, engagement, and excitement for adobe creative cloud within the usc community through strategic partnerships, campus workshops, and word-of-mouth.
fievre jones - graduate research assistant
software
grasshopper, rhino, revit, dynamo, illustrator, photoshop, vray, kuka prc, premiere, 3dsmax, indesign, autocad
fabrication
3d printing, woodworking, laser cutting, cnc milling, model making, kuka robotics, mig welding, vacuum forming, arduino
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS salutatorian, class of 2017 director’s award for “spirit of the discipline” 2017 aia henry adams certificate tau sigma delta honors society inductee
december 2014 - august 2015 led a team of students in the planning and execution of design research and analytical drawings for victor jones’ book “basento, un ponte” (euno edizioni, 2015)
usc school of architecture - woodshop attendant, digital fabrication TA august 2014 - august 2015, august 2016 - may 2017, respectively responsible for fabrication yard upkeep, maintenance and safety as well as demonstrating and educating students on woodshop, welding and kuka robotics techniques.
2017 haworth design charrette, 1st place* 2015 haworth design charrette, 1st place* john parkinson endowed scholarship american academy in china endowed scholarship *i did not compete in the 2016 competition
CONTENTS CATALINA LABORATORY
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BROADWAY MUSEUM
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UNDULATION COFFEE TABLE
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“PRIMITIVE” HUT
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DI-STACK-TIC ADDITION
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catalina laboratory PROVIDING A UNIQUE CAMPUS WITH A UNIQUE IDENTITY
Fall 2015 (design) Summer 2017 (drawings) 25,000 sqft Catalina Island, CA Institution/Laboratory Project
Sited on the beautiful Catalina island, this new addition to the USC Wrigley Institute of Environmental Sciences campus in Two Harbors provides the campus with a strong, forward thinking identity. The new laboratory building, complete with a new lecture hall and the updated and improved Catalina Interpretive Center, acts as a gateway from the water to the campus. The design pulls the campus’ center of mass towards the purpose of its existence: the water. The design also separates two functions that until now were competing for the campus’ identity: one being research, the other relaxation. By providing two separate routes from the dock to center campus, the design allows for visitors with different agendas to co-exist on campus. Furthermore, by creating a new “relaxation dock” floating above Fisherman’s cove, the sometimes dangerously overoccupied loading dock is given breathing room.
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arrival, departure & loading dock launch ramp leisure dock catalina interpretive center us coast guard hyperbaric chamber director’s residence EXISTING laboratory building to two harbors to dormitories to cafeteria
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BROADWAY MUSEUM
AN EXPLORATION IN ATRIUM
Spring 2016 35,000 sqft Downtown Los Angeles Museum Project
Sited in the historic jewelry district of downtown Los Angeles, this design participates in the rapid revival of historic broadway through the use of museum’s most iconic architectural feature: the atrium. Fulfilling the introverted qualities necessary for the label of “atrium” (piercing the building’s volume, regulating light, defining space), atrium is then pushed into the extroverted by spanning the entire ground floor to provide public access between Broadway and Hill St, transferring over 30% of the structural load of the building to the ground, and gently leading museum goers from gallery to gallery as they spiral around it through seven floors. Pointing due south, the atrium’s shape is self-shading, allowing for the fenestration embedded within (and artwork behind it) to experience minimum direct sunlight. The museum enhances the jewelry district both by bringing unique artworks and a highly porous, open plaza in direct constrast to the foritified jewelry stores that surround it.
ATRIUM AS CIRCULATION
ATRIUM AS DESIGNATION ANALOG AND DIGITAL
ATRIUM AS STRUCTURE
ATRIUM AS CONNECTION STREET TO ALLEY
ATRIUM AS FENESTRATION
ATRIUM AS MEMBRANE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
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OPEN AIR SCULPTURE PLAZA COFFEE SHOP LOBBY/MUSEUM STORE INVENTORY/COAT CHECK RESTROOM “THE POD” DIGITAL GALLERY TRADITIONAL GALLERY SPACE OFFICE CONFERENCE TRADITIONAL GALLERY SPACE OPEN GALLERY SPACE “THE CROWN” ANALOG GALLERY
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ROBOTICALLY MILLED COFFEE TABLE
Fall 2016 5 sqft Los Angeles, CA Furniture Project
Inspired by the curves and folds of Antelope Canyon, Arizona, this table was an exploration in fabrication. Using a grasshopper script developed by me, I was able to generate a toolpath for the Kuka robotic arm to carve an intricate pattern out of a beautiful piece of laminated Walnut. Having experience with CNC surfacing techniques and with time of the essence, I wanted to create a piece that utilized the size of the mill bit to cut down mill-time as much as possible. The resulting table took only 40 minutes to mill- 15 for the rough pass and 25 for the final. I made every piece of this table from start to finish, from planing the rough sawn walnut, laminating the wood into a solid piece, modeling the form and generating the g-code for the robot, calibrating the robotic arm, running the script to mill the piece, bending, welding and painting the steel, the final assembly, and taking photographs.
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“PRIMITIVE� HUT EXPLORATIONS IN COURTYARD AND MATERIALITY
Aggregation Studies: Cluster
Site Aggregation
Spring 2015 800 sqft Calgary, CA Residential Project
Exploring materiality, climate, strict square foot requirements, and the courtyard typology, the not-so-primitive hut project sought to provide a comfortable, small-scale home that accomodates wild fluctuations in temperature, weather, and available daylight. With a first floor living space and second floor loft, the house allows for a clear distinction between public and private space. The south facing winter garden provides solar heat through the cold winter days which radiates into the bedroom and living room throughout the night. Then, in the summer, the winter garden is ventilated to allow the house to breathe. The polycarbonate envelope is punctured by windows and shielded by insulated drywall at strategic points, allowing for playful expressions of transparancy, translucency, and opaqueness.
Courtyard Typology
Courtyard / Wintergarden
Partially Submerge
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Optimum Winter Angle
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Optimum Winter + Summer Angle
Loft
Collaboration with Kayla M. Ching
exploded oblique projection
unrolled interior elevations
plans // sections // elevations
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DI-STACK-TIC ADDITION TO THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Fall 2016 55,000 sqft Los Angeles, CA Institution Project
Treating USC School of Architecture’s Watt and Harris Halls as historic resources, this design follows the US standards for historic preservation. The first piece of the design was to perform historic restoration of Watt Hall to the “period of significance” of 1974. This period was determined after extensive design research into the history of the building. Following restoration, the design of a much needed addition which follows the standards for preservation is the result. The addition treats Watt Hall as a pedestal, sitting on top of it in a fully reversible manner. It tips its hat to Watt Hall by keeping the exisiting 30’ x 30’ grid and extending the columns through the building, but is just as critical as it is complimentary. Rejecting the idea that the best place to teach architecture is a concrete box, the new addition is itself a teaching tool for students. By elevating the limited fabrication yard to the roof, and with each subsequent floor a lesson in a different material (concrete, steel, wood), the building itself acts as the professor of architecture, allowing students to learn from the very school they inhabit.
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encyclopedic envelope
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The encyclopedic nature of the envelope system is a continuation of the didactic architecture. It gives students first hand experience with a variety of different fenestration options just moments from their studio desk. With 1:1 scale versions of a diverse array of celebrated options for bringing light into a space, students are better prepared to make envelope design decisions. Furthermore, the juxtaposition of certain window choices allows for new architectural discourse. For example, Le Corbusier’s ronchamp chapel vs Marceul Breuer’s whitney museum or Thom Mayne’s cooper union vs Jean Nouvel’s arab institute.
wOOD tRUSS (frameless g institut monde arab (jea perforated metal screen typ. steel mullion system slit windows (rudolph sc
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channel glass (steven holl) wolfsburg museum (zaha hadid) zolverein institute (sanaa) case study no.8 (charles & ray eames) port hole windows (rem koolhaas)
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glass block (pierre chareau) round windows (carlo scarpa) etfe pillows (various architects) protruding window (marcel breuer) recessed windows (le corbusier)
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fabrication plaza
15’ wide corridors allow for reviews & circulation 4’x 8’ cnc router beds four six-axis robotic arms mounted on tracks for ultra flexible work cell configurations fully equipped 3dprint and laser cut shop dual elevator platforms double as mobile review space 20,000 sqft shop yard and review plaza visible to public
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catalogue of steel connections visible to students “digital heart” vr review space lined with render server rooms three upperclassmen studio spaces
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lesson in steel glu-lam trusses enable students to interact with structure within studio
lesson in wood open floor plan graduate studio space catalogue of wood connections visible to students