Portfolio_2019 by mattdanna77

Matthew Danna

Musical Encounters - A Space for Classical Chamber Music in Vesterbro Copenhaggen, DK

Housing - units for couples and singles West Hollywood, CA

Campus Activity - spaces for activity at CSUMB Monterey, CA

Scientists Retreat - housing and office for visiting astronomers Mt Wilson, CA

Vesterbro Kunsthal - space for art in the community Copenhaggen, DK

POLA High School- charter school in the Los Angeles Harbor San Pedro, CA

The objective of the project is a unconventional concert house that should open up classical music to everyday life through a mixed use building. The building strives to accomplish this goal in two ways: through the use of a additional program and a reinterpretation of classical music. The addition program is a famers market that is open everyday. Currently Copenhagen doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a good market, there is just the too expensive glass markets, and paper islands. A market is also a way to begin to reestablish a cultural identity of the neighborhood while encouraging activity on the site, this will increase interaction between the different groups that are currently living in Vesterbro. The market serves as a catalyst for the music, it brings people in to accidentally stumble upon the music. The space of the building encourages this interaction by providing a plethora of partial views and connections to increase curiosity in the space. This encourages the excitement of wandering, a unique activity to markets. The program for the performance space works in a very similar way to add another dimension to classical music. The main objective is to increase the interaction between a performer and a listener. The traditional setup of musicians in the center with and audience around was flipped so the audience is now in the center with the musicians around them, then each instrument is isolated, with it still being open to the center so a person is able to have a one on one interaction with a performer while still being able to listen to the whole orchestra. It is sold as an experience rather than traditional show. 4

school

Buss stop

planned park

art peice

school playground

art peice

school

shops

planned park

planned Metro

Musical Encounters - A Space for Classical Chamber Music in Vesterbro The objective of the project is a unconventional concert house that should open up classical music to everyday life through a mixed use building. The building strives to accomplish this goal in two ways: through the use of a additional program and a reinterpretation of classical music. The addition program is a famers market that is open everyday. Currently Copenhagen doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a good market, there is just the too expensive glass markets, and paper islands. A market is also a great way to begin to reestablish a cultural identity of the neighborhood while encouraging interaction on the site. A marketplace is very democratic, not intimidating, and attracts various groups of people. This will increases interaction between the different groups that are currently living in Vesterbro. The market serves as a catalyst for the music, it brings people in to accidentally stumble upon the music. The space of the building encourages this interaction by providing a plethora of partial views and connections to increase curiosity in the space. The program for the performance space works in a very similar way to add another dimension to classical music. The main objective is to increase the interaction between a performer and a listener. The traditional setup of musicians in the center with and audience around was flipped so the audience is now in the center with the musicians around them, then each instrument is isolated, with it still being open to the center so a person is able to have a one on one interaction with a performer while still being able to listen to the whole orchestra. It is sold as an experience rather than traditional show.

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Church

shops

Istedgade

Enghavevej

skate park

planned Metro

homelss population

school

Buss stop

planned park

art peice

school playground

school

art peice

shops

elevator dressing rooms

wash room

backstage breakroom womens

personal viewing

music space 2

informal seating area

music space 1

music space 3

mens

personal viewing personal viewing

storage

skate

fresh produce

outdoor outdoor performace performace

elevator

fire chease/dairy

bakers

fresh produce

coat check

music space 2

office

open to below

pop up 1 fresh seafood and meat

music space 1 music space 3

music rehersal cafe/ bar

pop up 2

pop up 3

flowers outside plants

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The main objective of the project was to create units with the potential to use daylight from all sides, as opposed to normal units that can only source from one or two sizes. This would result in units that are filled with daylight, that feel larger like stand alone residences. The “box” of 400 sf was shifted to provide openings on all sides and then combined with another to create a one bedroom unit of 800 sf. With the shift the openings become more private, provide multiple potential entrances, and reflect light on the surface of the wall into the space. The demographic of the area is young with the wast majority of households only 1-2 people. In order to create the best possible housing for this population all units are one bedroom and suited to the age range of the area. Each unit is organized around 4 elements: an large balcony that can be completely open to the living room, a bathroom/closet that divides the space, a storage wall that contains the kitchen, and one bedroom. Although each unit is different the relationships of these elements are all the same in every one. From the inside the resulting conglomeration of units feels like a village with a main street that through the project. To unify the project from the outside a “wrap” was used around the whole perimeter with provided openings where they were needed. The wooden lovers of the wrap also turn to allow more light in and soften the facade. This creates a wonderful relationship with the public as creating privacy with the possibility of interaction.

1st Floor Plan Scale: 1/8”= 1’-0”

2nd Floor Plan Scale: 1/8”= 1’-0”

When first visiting the site, located on a college campus, I was struck by the space of the campus, mostly open-ended ill-defined. The existing buildings on campus, some repurposed military barracks, had little to no interaction with the site or surroundings and as a result had no effect on the campus environment. This proposal creates defined spaces of various sizes that result in a better connection to the campus life. As a result of the geometry multiple programmatic elements define each space creating rich campus environments. The building is grounded in the site and slopes as the land does, rising and falling with the landscape, promoting accessibility from all sides. The program of the building is contained between the sloping ground surface and the roof that connects phase one and two. This roof creates many in-between spaces that bridge the gap between the campus and the inside of the building. This brings the activity and energy of the program to the campus and the natural environment of the campus in. The program was kept just as the competition requirements with the addition of the cafe and the programmed outdoor spaces. Each outdoor space has an encouraged activity influenced by the campus as well as the adjacent programs. Further the program was reinterpreted as to maximize the value of each element.

Current campus building layout: poorly defined open ended space with a poor connection to the site and street with the activities of building contained inside

defined specific spaces of various sizes with multiple activities defining each space resulting in a better connection to campus life with a elongagted street facade

the building slopes as the site does to ground the builing into site and to allow accessibility from all sides

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Mt Wilson is a peak of the San Gabriel Mountains in the Los Angelas Forest. The peak was once home to the most advanced astrological technology at the time but began to be phased out in 1884. Since 2000 there has been a push to open back up all the observatories on the site to researchers. The telescope located on the site is one of the smallest and is currently not in use. This project provides a office and residence for two researchers that would operate this observatory. The site for the project was very small, being allowed to touch down in minimal locations. The project hovers above the site in a steel truss with an open program semi-broken up by walls inside. The project explores the relationship between architecture and structure, with the space equally defined by the truss, that is necessary for the cantilever, and the architectural intent of the walls. The structure pierces, fills, and defines the program while the programatic elements interrupt frame the structure. On the north facade both of these systems are simultaneously seen together and separate. The fronted glass facade produces a the shadow of the structure as well as the softer shadows of the program behind, producing dark and light spots. This facade also faces the rest of the residences on the mountain, so the screen provides privacy while letting light in.

Vesterbro is one of the neighborhoods of Copenhagen that surrounds the center city. The area, in the last ten years, has changed both demographically and economically resulting in a large portion of its occupants being pushed out to surrounding neighborhoods. The community desires a project that can bring them together that also welcomes people from other parts of the city. This project is a Kunsthal, a small community “museum” with a month changing exhibition that is free to the public. The project brief required a variety of spaces, both indoor and outdoor, that can be adapted to different scales and forms of art. This includes performance, sculpture, video, painting, etc. The project creates spaces of a variety of spaces that both comment on the art and remain neutral. In plan the project is highly expressive but in section remains very neutral. The spaces change in dimension as well as height to accommodate different exhibitions. The indoor and outdoor space is designed in the same way, so the outside space becomes like a “room” in the building rather than outside of the building. The building is constructed of brick that changes in various locations. When an outdoor space runs against a exterior wall the brick opens to become semi transparent, in the tall gallery the brick turns to give a more vertical orientation, and in the performance galley the brick turns out, giving a highly textured background. The project also features additional program of a small library, cafe and studios for local artists. The art created by these artists would be featured in a local gallery and local outdoor gallery. 28

The site for the project, Warehouse no 1, is located at the end of a peninsula no 1 in the Los Angles Harbor. The warehouse was built in 1917, originally to store ammunitions, and later used as storage. Built as one of the first modern structures it played and important role in the establishment of Los Angeles as a major center of international trade, it is the first building you see when arriving at Los Angeles by ship. The Building is owned by the port and listed on the National Register of Historic Places which severely limits the development that is allowable in respect to the original building. The site is also outlined for institutional use in the New Port General Plan and included in the Tidelands Trust meaning that it required to be developed for public use and cannot be sold to a private developer. These development restrictions of the site essentially require a public port-owned institution for any new use. The port of Los Angeles High School is a public â&#x20AC;&#x153;charterâ&#x20AC;? tuition-free high school that is run by the independent Port of Los Angeles High School Distric. This makes the school an ideal candidate for development the site, as public port-owned institution. Because of the way the building was originally built, combined with the historical listing, there are limitations to the possibilities of adaptation. The entire structure is simply too expensive to demolish and changes to the facade are limited in respect to its listing. The only architectural intervention possible would be to create the school campus inside the original warehouse. An ideal California school has been be defined by a sprawling outdoor campus and continuous circulation, two conditions not allowable in the structure. The project is the consequence of projecting the condition inside the warehouse itself to create the campus. The changes neccisary to facilitate this goal by nature produce a change of perception of the original structure. The project focuses on these perceptial shifts and how this can create a new architecture using the orignial structure.

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1. harbor and indian settlement discovery (1600) 2. destruction of deadmans islasnd 3. construciton of wooden peier 4. construciton of railroad (1800) 5. construction of the breakwater 6. planned harbor fill (1900) 7. construction of warehouse 1

1. harbor and indian settlement discovery (1600) 2. destruction of deadmans island 3. contruction of wooden peir 4. construction of railroad (1800) 5. contruction of the breakwater 6. planned harbor fill (1900) 7. contruction of warehouse 1

site plan 1/256” = 1’

Level Four Plan 1/32” = 1’

Level Three Plan 1/32” = 1’

Basement Level Plan 1/32” = 1’

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Level Two Plan 1/32” = 1’

Roof Plan 1/32” = 1’

Level Six Plan 1/32” = 1’

Level Five Plan 1/32” = 1’

Level Four Plan 1/32” = 1’

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Building Section 1/16” = 1’

Physical work Process

Spring 2019

- POLA HS Process

Spring 2019

- POLA HS Process

Winter 2017

- community housing process

Winter 2018

- Recreation center process

Summer 2017- furniture process

Spring 2015

- Marine Mammel Care Center

CTOR: MITCHELL DE JARNETT EXERCISE 03: ARRANGING MATTHEW DANNA // INSTRUCTOR: MITCHELL DE JARNETT

Summer 2018

- Fensmark Skole

EXERCISE 04: MUSEUM MATTHEW DANNA // MITCHELL DEJARNETT

Winter 2015

LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

- Museum DTLA

CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA. COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE ARC 202L, WINTER 2016: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

VERSITY, POMONA. COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE RAL DESIGN Winter 2016 - tower vs cantilever

Winter 2016

- scientist retreat