Matthew Yip - Portfolio - Spring 2024 v02

01

Gather + Grow

Generating a responsive housing typology connecting community through gardening and food / pg. 06 - 11

03

Ebb & Flow

Adaptations to the False Creek shoreline / pg. 18-27

05

Go with the Flow Theatre

Finding form in an unconventional theatre / pg. 34 - 41

02

Beach Walk

Choreographing an experience with a douglass fir / pg. 12 - 17

04

MONAD Case Study

06

Building understanding of wall assemblies, materials, and precedent projects / pg. 28 - 33 Miscellaneous

extra bits and bobs / pg. 42 - 49

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

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 co-operative 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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Project 02

Beach Walk

Developing a new horizon for combining living and urban agriculture on a residential site in Vancouver’s Riley Park Neighbourhood

Year: 2024

Course: DES 302 - Vancouver

Instructor: Divine Ndemeye

Team: Meiji Pangsophon, Lon Tam

This design project aimed to connect with the enigmatic and hidden essence of Wreck Beach by employing dynamic, evolving, and transient materials. Through this approach, we intend to create a space that offers moments of tranquility, introspection, and contemplation. Our focal point will be the Douglas fir, serving as both a silent observer and a central element in our reflection space. This tree will act as a landmark, a sanctuary for confession, and an opportunity for individuals to harmonize with their surroundings. The overarching goal is to craft an immersive environment that invites visitors to feel and connect with past memories that exist around the site, fostering a sense of oneness and inner peace.

Project 03 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

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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Project 04

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

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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Project 05

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.

An interstitial space hides in plain sight, masquerading as a parking lot, a corridor, or a gravel patch. But could it be more?

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.

These broad, dramatic gestures both divide and unite the space, inviting dynamic interactions and openings.

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.

Stairway leading to Stage

Refreshments Table

Washroom & Dressing Room

Social/ Community Seating

Accessibility

Lift

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Kannikegården Case Study

Understanding building assembly by researching, analysing, and drafting a case study project by Lundgaard and Tranberg Arkitekter

Year: 2023

Course: DES 232 - Material Culture

Instructor: Timothy Wong

Entwined

Embracing

Year: 2022

the textures of a home

Course: DES 211 - Design Media I

Instructor: Riley Baechler

Formation

From movement to model

Year: 2023

Course: DES 202 - Form

Instructor: Young-Tack Oh

Team: Mira Chambers, Paul Zheng

Year: 2021

Letters From Above

Graphite on paper

Collar 01

Year: 2021