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Matthew
Tierney
MArch Application Portfolio
MPLS, MN (WACTAC Light Rail Station) Mfangano Island, Kenya (VCT Community Center) Copenhagen, DK (Urban Infill) Copenhagen, DK
(Climate Summit Pavilion)
MPLS, MN (Cedar Lake Trail HDQTRS) MPLS, MN (Silverlake Bread Making Facility)
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WACTAC
Light
Rail
Station
A light rail transit stop and the Walker Art Center’s teen art program’s (WACTAC) satellite location. The program aimed at creating a stage for young artists within the informal urban context where onlooking riders formed an audience. The basic concept for the structure of the building is simple, then it is covered in a bent skin of metal fabric that acts as a sun shade as well as an energy source when certain optimized panels are replaced with active PV panels of the same dimension.
A series of proposed use diagrams allowed the design to plan prospectively for future occupants, programs, and situations.
The simple structural cube was covered in a fitted corset of woven metal mesh. The skin was then sliced in half to allow glimpses of the structure from the outside and the penetration of natural light.
A 1/4”: 1’ section model
Mfangano
Island,
Kenya
Headquartered in the “Hot Zone” of the aids/hiv epidemic, the Organic Health Response asked me to help find an alternative approach to treatment through architecture. The idea is to purge all of the “pathogens” within the system simultaneously by combining multiple, seemingly disparate lenses. My work during this summer of on-site design blossomed into an ongoing pursuit of humanitarian design principles for:
The community, the houses & the farms of Mfangano, Kenya.
Water Catchment/Drainage
Banana Leaf Model built on-site
Front Elevation
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Human Feces/Urine Adult Tilapia/Catfish for Consumption Filtered/Aerated Water Post Harvest Poultry
Farm
Fertilizer
Human Waste
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Ammonia--Nitrates---Nitrites
Aquaponics
Tilapia Catfish Algae Eaters
Storage
Trading Other Foods Materials
Food Consumption Energy
Charcoal
Methanogens
Digester
Acetogenic Bacteria
Population Density
Economic Gain
Biomass
Animal Waste
Temperature
Improved Health Nutrient
Electric
Methane
Improvements to the Integrated House Irrigation
Aplliances
Biogas Cooktop
Human Waste
Latrine Stirring Turbine
Natural Gas Line to stove
Annual Rainfall
Industry
Tilapia Pond Vegetable/Fruit Garden
Gas Slurry
Overflow/Input
Earthen Cement Enclosure
Crop Combinations
Geological Soils
Maps courtesy of the Borchert Map Library
Copenhagen
Urban
Infill
an infill structure that blended with the historical context of the site while remaining a product of its time. This structure aimed to: -Create cooking and gathering spaces visible from ground level. -Operate within an existing cultural and community contexts. -Respect the heritage of the site while innovating architecturally.
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dividing element between the public sidewalk and the private houses. -At night, especially during dinnertime, the inside of the houses lining the block glow and emit light to the public area. -Although there are street lamps, they are spaced at a distance that makes small areas of light and then large areas of dark between. -One positive security aspect of the neighborhood is that III there are people who keep an eye on street from their houses.
Semi-Private Private
-The division of public and private space on theGradient street is separated Privacy starkly and therefore, the private spaces are placed directly next to the public sidewalk. -This “end on end” connection makes Krusemyntegade a corridor that allows people is to situated gain access to their street of thethat busier - Krusemyntegade between two from busyone streets serve as streets and then to their house from their side of the street. the main arteries of the neighborhood. This makes the area a -Thearea lack in of interaction and intermingling completelypeople. public secluded terms of noise, traffic, andbetween consequentially and completely private areas in this urban setting prevents social - Bike traffic makes a fairly large portion of the overall traffic in the interaction among residents. area. -The stores that are located in immediate proxiemety to the block are -Cars seem beofthe main meansdon’t of transportation tothat and at theto end the other street and therefore function as places serve to bring the outside into the neighborhood. from the neighborhood.
-The neighborhood’s traffic situation has pros and cons. -The pros are that the site is fairly quiet, private, and free of Vegetation/Lighting Although the facades on the street are all very similar in their proportions, Krusemyntegade is situated between two busy streets that serve as Traffic trash. they are given their personality by a playful color pallate. the main arteries of the neighborhood. This makes the area a -The cons are a result of the fact that there are no multi use secluded area in terms of noise, traffic, and consequentially people. buildings in the area and no public gathering spaces from - Bike traffic makes a fairly large portion of the overall traffic in the benches to squares. The are is therefore secluded, dark, area. unused, and monofunctional. -Cars seem to be the other main means of transportation to and G
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Although the facades on the street are all very similar in their proportions, they are given their personality by a playful color pallate.
Community Gardens line the rowhouses. They do not have corridor linking them and they are very seclusive.
Section A
from the neighborhood. -The neighborhood’s traffic situation has pros and cons. -The pros are that the site is fairly quiet, private, and free of trash. -The cons are a result of Cars the fact thatsouth there are no multi use line the buildings in the area andside noof public gathering spaces from the street. benches to squares. The are is therefore secluded, dark, unused, and monofunctional. The facades are proportioned at Parking human scale
Cars line the south side of the street. The facades are proportioned at human scale
These setbacks make a unique spatial experience that serves to transition between the cosy street
Bike Parking Car Parking
Solutions:
These setbacks make a unique spatial experience that serves to transition between the cosy street and the more industrialized buildings towards the end of the block.
Car Pedestrian Bike
Bike Parking Car Parking
Parking
Traffic Types
-Cars are given a significant portion of the street’s usable space for parking. -Bikes are generally parked on the sidewalk in front of each house and they too take up a significant amount of usable sidewalk space. Solutions: -The amount of cars in the area shows that not only do the residents cars but are affluent enough -More street lightsuse should be they installed on each sidetoofown theand street to drive them. -Subtle divisions or buffer zones between the public sidewalk and
space in the site to allow an intermingling of social functions and e Parking -The placement of this block allows it to be a suburban oasis sandw
Climate
Summit
Pavilion
Natural systems are constantly changing, developing, deconstructing and reassembling themselves before our eyes.
I wanted to create a pavilion that:
(I) Was built for deconstruction (II) Left a Footprint of flowers (III) Changed throughout the diurnal cycle (IV) Upcycled construction waste (rebar) (V) Required no energy to operate
Structural Diagram
Process model light studies (1:50 and Full Scale Mock-Up)
Cedar
Lake
Trail
Headquarters
The Cedar Lake Bike Trail connects the hardscape of downtown Minneapolis with the prairie grasslands of the western suburbs. My design strategy involved: (I) reinvigorating the prairie landscape (II) providing nighttime lighting (III) creating urban furniture (IV) serving bicyclists and cross country skiers.
An initial site visit studied the differing speeds at which the site could be experienced.
Changing seasonal and diurnal usage patterns (left) dictated the site selection,
A car, a bicycle, and a whitetail deer were the three lenses used to evaluate the site.
the materiality of the buidling, and the flexible programmatic plan.
Artisan
Bread
Making
Facility
An unprecedented typology allowed this design to explore a range of possible forms, layouts, and programmatic elements in response to site context, the bread making process, and sustainable building methods. By building a full scale, masonry bread oven, our studio group discovered the innate qualities of the brick. Through my design process, I discovered the need for flexibility of form, modularity, sustainable heating methods, and the planning for immense amounts of even, natural light throughout the space.
Brick Coursing Pattern Plans
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Energy Flow Diagram
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Orthographic construction drawings produced with Joe Anton and Will Alt.
Week 4
Process Models
Full scale mock-ups helped solve constructed details and drove the design forward.
Waffle Slab roofing system details at the outdoor veranda
Entry Perspective
West Elevation 5’
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Longitudinal Section 5’
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