Matthew Yip UBC SALA Bachelor of Design In-progress Undergraduate Design & Architecture Portflio
2023
contents 01 Gather + Grow
Generating a responsive housing typology connecting community through gardening and food / pg. 04 - 15
03 Entwined
Textures of Home / pg. 28 - 33
05 Go with the Flow Theatre
Finding form in an unconventional theatre / pg. 42 - 55
02 Ebb & Flow
Adaptations to the False Creek shoreline / pg. 16 - 27
04 MONAD Case Study Building understanding of wall assemblies, materials, and precedent projects / pg. 34 - 41
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Project 01
Grow + Gather Developing a new horizon for combining living and urban agriculture on a residential site in Vancouver’s Riley Park Neighbourhood Year: 2023 Course: DES 301 - Building Scale Synthesis Instructor: Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy
This project challenged me to think within the context of the housing crisis in Vancouver in which rising costs of living have put immense pressure on individuals and families to meet their basic shelter and food needs. This project asked us to develop a set of demands that framed our intervention along a framework of creating equitable, responsive, and smart desnity. My manifesto took the form of the following points. 1) we must locate housing close to and integrate it into productive community-led food initiatives. This serves to create good quality affordable food for all, engagement opportunities for the community, and a more compassionate understanding of the land we 04
exist on - especially how much space, energy, water, it takes to grow the food we often take for granted. 2) These spaces will be open to the community, not just to residents, thus everyone is able to participate and benefit from the food grown together. 3) This housing will be non-market cooperative housing units that support a range of incomes and ages, they should be intimate but not overpopulated. The co-op aids in supporting the voices of residents, but also engages them in tight-knit shared cooking schedules, and orienting residents on managing the farm.
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Ebb & Flow Responding to the changing shoreline of False Creek Year: 2022 Course: DES 201 - Context and Site Studio Instructor: Arthur Leung Site: Vancouver, BC. Collaborators : Ivy Shen
Leg in Boot Square, located along the southwestern side of Vancouver’s False Creek, presents many opportunities for relocation and reimagining in light ofclimate change and the looming threat of rising sea levels. Inspired by the possibilities of tide pools, this project sought to blend relationships and experiences between the land and water, specifically with the intention of encouraging experiences that cultivate a playful relationship between residents and 016
the water. The landscape extends rippled and flowing towards the water in a rippled softscape that slows water down as it approaches and mitigates erosion. Pools of water form in the valleys of the landscape that fill and change with the tides, creating a unique experience for each user. By proposing such an intervention, we desire to reconnect Leg in Boot Square with its proximity to False Creek, making water a key element of engagement.
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Entwined Embracing the textures of a home Year: 2022 Course: DES 211 - Design Media I Instructor: Riley Baechler
This project sought to familiarise and develop fundamental skills relating to digital drafting and modeling tools like Auto-CAD and Rhino by taking real world measurements of one’s living space and create a plan, unrolled section, and axonometric drawings. Being virtually new to digital drafting, I found both opportunities and challenges to working in this system. The challenge of portraying phyical objects in modeling space was both due to a lack of experience using modelling software and because of my insistence to accuracy -- I am really sentimental about the 028
furnishings I have in my apartment - and so to model them was to be disingenuous to how I wanted to represent them. I opted instead to work in a hybrid mode of creating the structure of the apartment in the digital space, while hand drawing the decor which allowed me to capture a sense of texture and liveliness that I personally value in the space.
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MONAD case study Understanding current models for dense urban living in Vancouver through a project by LWPAC Year: 2023 Course: DES 301 - Building Scale Synthesis Instructor: Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy Collaborators: Channing Ferguson
A studio project analysing the existing approaches to housing in Vancouver and around the world. My team got to study MONAD, a groundbreaking urban infill project constructed by LWPAC in 2011. Cindy Wilson and Oliver Lang sought to merge dense multifamily dwellings with comfortable, sustainable, and beautiful living spaces. Sitting on a 33’ wide lot on Waterloo St. and West 4th Ave, the structure combines adaptable, modular, scalable, and efficient generation of buildings, interrogating dissonant attitudes between neighbourhoods and density. Ultimately LWPAC and this building reflect new ways of thinking about privacy, transparency, and community. They 034
achieve this new vision by blurring what is common and individual; deconstructing hegemonic constructions of privacy in the way we live - person to person, neighbour to neighbour; and encouraging community through the subtle sightlines and joined spaces that can link dwellings together.
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Go with the Flow Theatre Finding form for a non-conventional community theatre. Year: 2023 Course: DES 202 - Form Instructor: Young-Tack Oh Site: 1820 Fir Street, Vancouver, BC.
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An interstitial space hides in plain sight, masquerading as a parking lot, a corridor, or a gravel patch. But could it be more?
These broad, dramatic gestures both divide and unite the space, inviting dynamic interactions and openings.
Adjacent to the Arthur Erikson Waterfall Building, nestled along the Arbutus corridor, the culmination of my second studio course was a project that harnessed previous exercises to synthesize a new form, transforming the space into a vibrant performance venue for the community. Drawing inspiration from an analysis of human motion, enhanced by the interplay of wind patterns within the site context, the envisioned theater embodies the essence of oscillations in its sweeping, cradling, and flowing form.
The theatres design places emphasis on the programming of performance in the way that it both situates occupants and is situated in the site. The journey from the streetscape to the stage becomes a captivating procession, engaging not only the theater, the performers, and the audience but also the entire community. The act of performance transcends its traditional boundaries, transforming into an immersive experience shared by all. 043
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Documenting bags, and organza sheets like tumble weeds in the wind, this site analysis represents a graphic representation of a series of videos captured on site of the patterns of wind motion in relation to physical motion. Information from those analyses was overlaid over sensory information relating to wind direction and power as well as wind data gathered by instruments through whether stations. 045
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A precedent model experimenting with form and flow. crafted from paper cut into strips and fastened with a metal wire threaded along the spine of each piece, the language of curves and interstitial spaces that created volumes informed the form of the theatre. 046
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Perspectives of the theater aim to depict moments of procession through the space, from the ground level, up the stairs, and to the stage. Secondary qualities like lighting and atmosphere reveal themselves to contribute to the atmosphere of the procession, almost as if lit to be a performance in-and-of itself. Thereby the space creates opportunities it creates for an ever changing human experience, for example, dictated by the movement of the sun.
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Thank you for your time!
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