Portfolio texas tech university architecture fall 2016-FALL 2019
christopher matthews
resume Education
Texas Tech University; Lubbock TX
2016-2019
Magna Cum Laude Graduate
Cypress Falls High School; Houston, TX
2012-2016
Cum Laude Graduate Work Experience
Texas Tech University; Lubbock, TX
2018-2019
Architecture Student Assistant
Subway Restaurant; Houston, TX
2015-2016
Sandwich Artist Activities
National Organization of Minority Architects
2018-2019
Mentor Tech Student Organization
2018-2019
Secretary Historian
ProtĂŠgĂŠ Advisory Committee
Alpha Lambda Delta & Phi Eta Sigma
2017-2019
National Honor Society
Knights of Architecture
2017
Member Achievements and Awards
I chose to study Architecture because I love to understand, study and adapt to people's needs. I think it is important to understand world trends, human behavior in all different regions, societies, cultures or dominant ideologies before developing a concept. I also love Architecture because final designs can be an elaborate collection from various ideas, and this is the beauty of Architecture. I am a strong team player who follows close examination of problems and seeks to find solutions at all cost. I am experienced with leadership roles and Even though I am very dependable, I also love to work with others in my field.
Tau Sigma Delta Architecture Honor Society 2019 James C. Watkins and Paul W. Horn Scholarship 2019 The David Farrell Scholarship 2019 Albert R. Moffitt and Doris E. Moffitt Scholarship 2019 Dr. E Louden Architecture Scholarship 2018 TTU Brown Architecture Scholarship 2018 Special Award of Distinction in Advanced Physics 2017 TTU Doak Residence Hall Scholarship 2017 TTU Traditions Scholarship 2017-2019 Skills
Fluent in spoken and written English and Spanish (native) Proficient with Rhino 3D, Autodesk Revit, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, VRay, Microsoft Office Movavi Handy with wood, painting, model-making and 3D printing
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Design Works
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Denver’s House of Meditation
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Médiathèque West
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Y-361
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North Point Fitness Center
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Construction Systems
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Peace Bridge
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Apple Cube
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Concord Residence
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introduction
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Precedent:
Waterside buddhist shrine Hebei, China
Figurative model exploring the materiality of the Waterside Buddhist Shrine, located within a forest, under a mound of earth. Hebei, China. Media: brown chip board, white museum board, tree branches painted white, basswood sticks and sand.
The shrine uses minimal disruption with the existing landscape by been built beneath a mound of earth covered with grass, thus helping the structure disappear into a beautiful landscape. The form of four extending arms of the shrine works in accordance with the existing mature trees as a way to respect the originators of the landscape. The building compliments five independent yet continuous spaces created by two axes.The entrance is a the longest arm acting as a passage that carves into the slope. Geometric concete surfaces protrude from the grassy hill frame, opening as skylights and courtyard spaces. Indeed, the Waterside Buddhist Shrine is a fluid and open space coexisting with nature.
Final model of the Denver’s House of Meditation where the materiality of the facade is made out of a dual translucent glass. Medium: scored and glazed plexi glass
Concept model where transverse and longitudinal axial planes create the double glass curtain wall that became the important symbol of the project.
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The goal of the project was to create a center, or monastery for meditation in Downtown Denver’s oldest district known as the LoDo. The goal of the design was to connect the two streets between the site because of how active the adjacent creek is with people exercising and socializing. Hence, the concept was to cut the volumetric prism of the site with four major axial planes that could create this connection.
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Precedent:
Library in dendermonde Dendermonde, Belgium
BOB361 Architects accommodated the demand of vast parking in Dendermonde’s most transited street, the Kerkstraat, through a folded roof parking creating a ramping system. Figurative model of the Library in Dendermonde, where a contrast is purposely made with the materials to show the division of the structure’s levels. The brown chip board represents the dual ramping system and the upper volumes shaping the building. The grey chipboard shows the building’s concrete at the lower levels.
In order to achieve this demand, they activated the public library with a roof acting as a passageway for vehicles and pedestrians who can move between two prominent streets in Dendermonde. The green passage, adjacent to the library’s main structure, also follows this rhythm for circulation for visitors to use. The library is activated through a traffic flow inviting the users to move along its long axis. This is possible thanks to the systematic structural grid of columns which also organizes the interior spaces.
Final section model of the Médiathèque West Library extension showing The North Ramp: the Cultural/Exhibition Zone and the wider main ramp, which serves as parking on the roof level and archiving in the interior. Medium: 3D printed on white filament
Closer view of the section model looking through the main entrance of the North Ramp housing the exhibition spaces. The Exhibition Ramp obliges the users to keep moving through the ramps and floor plates through the long axis.
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Through a ramping system, the building reacts to the cultural hub of Lubbock’s Buddy Holly’s Performing Arts and Sciences Center, the First Friday Art Trail’s surrounding buildings and the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. Médiathèque West serves as an extension for mass archiving of records and other important files to the Lubbock Mahon Public Library. A road and topography were introduced to break the site and connect McDavis Lane (north) to 9th Street (south), ‘ramping’ over the partially-underground structure. MÉdiathÈque west
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Interior View to Social Mezzanine Media: VRay for Rhino 3D + Photoshop
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Precedents:
Place d’youville SURROUNDINGs Montreal, QC; Canada
Figurative model of the back façade of the Y-361 firm+housing unit. Its vertical nature speaks to the neighboring shops and businesses. The recessed, carved “windows” follow the proportions of the adjacent building embraced by the firm. Media: white museum board and balsa wood
The configuration of the verso (back) façade mocks the existing Victorian Architecture around the site. A study of the surrounding materiality of the surrounding elements were abstracted and considered for the design of the façade. The pattern of fenestrations, sills, column grids and materiality around the site are incorporated so that the verso face of the building is not too invasive and foreign. However, this existing language is disrupted when the glass core for the main vertical circulation clashes at one corner. The long, wrapping glass on the left embraces the building with a postmodern approach. The main events happening in this glass core is vertical circulation through a series of stairs wrapping an open atrium.
Site Diagram + Analysis looking at the open green spaces, pedestrian and vehicular circulation, as well as the predicted relationships of how these circulations may interact with our site.
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As part of a group project, I was assigned to design the verso face of this Architecture firm + housing units. Located in Old Montreal, the design sought not to become very invasive to the neighboring buildings. Hence, the design of the verso façade follows a similar language from the site. The site is located between Park d’Youville, just right across the Canada Border Services Agency and the commercial street of Saint-Paul West.
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Verso Section Media: Rhino 3D; postproduced on Adobe Illustator Y-361
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Precedent:
national gallery of art Washington DC, United States
Concept Model of the National Gallery of Art (East) in Washington DC by I.M. Pei. The black half represents the area of the building designated for research while the white represents the area designated for exhibitions of art.
The building was built on a awkward trapezoid piece of land, which made I.M. Pei’s challenge to deal with the site’s form into something special. In his design of the new Gallery of Art, adjacent to the old Gallery of Art, Pei manipulated geometry and light, and dealt with the different merging volumes interlocking separately and acting as passageways. Pei also deceits the building’s mass to add a sense of a weightless structure. Picture Below: final model of design, of two triangles: a right triangle and an isosceles traingle coming together to serve the intrinsic recreational programs.
Media: 1” foam board, black museum board, white museum board, basswood dowels and grey acrylic paint
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Media: 1/8" basswood sticks, chip board spray-painted white
1.4 NORTH POINT FITNESS CENTER
The N.P. Fitness Center is established between a strategic corner and very transited area in Downtown Lubbock. Assigning the very rectangular programs in the very triangular building design and to create interconnected relationships and to follow the principles of a central atrium merging the spaces with natural light were the biggest challenges for this project.
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Media: plywood, 3D printed plastic, rockite, plaster of Paris, resin, blue ink and steel rods.
2.1 PEACE BRIDGE structural analysis
Peace Bridge Santiago Calatrava, architect Calgary, Alberta; CA Group Members:: Vanesa Aguilar and Angelica Amaya
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AppleÂŽ Specially Designed Clamp Detail
Titanium Patch Fitting Detail
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Restraining Fin Plate Detail
2.2 APPLE CUBE structural analysis
Apple Cube Bohlin, Cywinski and Jackson 5th Avenue, New York City, USA Team Member: Vanesa Aguilar APPLe CUBE
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AppleÂŽ Clamp and Titanium Patch Fitting Model
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Media: plexi glass (3 layers) and 3D modeled and printed connections
AppleÂŽ Clamp and Titanium Patch Fitting Axonometric
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1. plaza marble 2. grout in between floor tiles 3. cementious bonding coat adhering to marble tiles and mastic asphalt membrane 4. mastic asphalt layer allowing build refurbishment also acting as waterproof 5. rigid foam insulation 6. concrete floor slab 7. water drainage adjacent to glass façade from the outside 8. glass beam triple laminated acting as structural glass 9. titanium patch to hold the roof and avoid friction of glass to glass 10. titanium clamp connecting the crossing glass beam to the column 11. glass column triple laminated acting as structural glass 12. bonding material separating the exterior tiles from the glass façade 13. flashing acting as waterproof 14. restraining fin plate where glass façade hits the ground 15. plastic shim spacer used to adjust the glass panel to the restraining plate 16. silicon sealer 17. vertical grill installed in the interior floor 18. LED floor light 19. steel reinforcement bars 20. Italian stone interior finish 21. steel mesh cage reinforcement 22. steel I-beam connected to girder 23. plywood board 24. waterproof/vapor membrane 25. hollow space for electrical wiring and ventilation 26. annealed glass panel of 5-ply laminated safety glass 27. polyvinyl butyral interlayer film 28. titanium patch fitting clamping the safety glass panels together, laminated into the column
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Kitchen Rendering Medium: Revit 2020
2.3 CONCORD RESIDENCE design + structural analysis
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1. 1/2” Roof Asphalt Shingles 2. 1/4” Water (Damp) Proofing Membrane 3. 3/4” Plywood Sheathing 4. 11-1/4” Fiberglass Batt Insulation (Roof) 5. 3’’ Roof Soffit 6. 1/2” Ceramic Composition Tile Exterior Finish 7. 1’-0’’ Cast-in-Place Concrete Wall 8. Closed-Cell Sprayed Foam Insulation 9. TAPCON 1/2“ Large Diameter Stainless Steel Concrete Screw 10. 3-1/4” Air Gap to Avoid Moisture Transfer from Concrete Wall to Interior Gypsum Finish and for Air Circulation 11. 1/2” Oak Flooring Interior Finish (Upper Level) 12. 4” Lightweight Concrete Decking 13. 1/4” Steel Decking Sheet 14. 3/8” Gypsum Board at Ceiling 15. 2x8” Nominal Lumber (1-1/2 x 7-1/4”) 16. 1/2” Gypsum Wall Board Interior Finish 17. 3/4” Oak Flooring Interior Finish (Ground Level) 18. 1’-0” Concrete (Reinforced) Footing 19. 4” Cast-in-Place Concrete Floor Slab 20. 1” Diameter Deformed Steel Reinforcing Bars 21. Water (Damp) Proofing Floor Membrane 22. 1” Raised Fascia Trim 23. Fascia Fasteners 24. 1” Galvanized Anchor Bolts 25. 1/4” Metal Sheet Screws 26. 1/4” Metal Sheet Screws 27. Bottom Door Casing 28. 2x12“ Nominal Lumber (1-1/2” x 11-1/4“) 29. 1” Oriented Strand Board (OSB) Sheathing 30. 5/8” Gypsum Board at Ceiling 31. Soil
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Medium: Revit 2020
large diameter stainless steel concrete screw
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gypsum wall board (interior finish)
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mastic mortar (ceramics adhesive) window top header
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interior cedar wood floor
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