MATTHEW JUDY 240-477-2522 | mattj94@vt.edu
URBAN RACK 4th year | Lower East Side, Manhattan, NYC CLT boxes of various size and cladding are selectively inserted into two separate frames to accommodate the three programmatic requirements.
Museum
Market
Housing
The museum is located next to a subway station and the majority of apartments receive southern light.
The short wide frame and the tall slender frame intersect, but never touch.
MUSEUM The museum is comprised of 20 shifting insulated CLT inserts clad in painted red metal.
The museum extends through the housing to establish a presence on Delancey st.
A steel clad rectangular tube provides passage through the museum without sacrificing the identity of each box.
The shifting volumes of the museum are shown in the section.
MARKET + HOUSING The market is on the ground covered by CLT roof inserts. Above, the housing is enclosed with smaller CLT boxes inserted into the tall frame.
An opening in the roof of the market allows daylight to enter and provides a view of the housing.
The market extends the length of the site within the relentless grind of the structural frame .
Five CLT boxes with the floors chopped off sit in the frame above the market .
HANGING COMMUNITY CENTER 3rd year | Event space, gym, locker rooms, and kitchen A box constructed from CLT stressed skin panels hangs from six steel beams.
Three cables attached to each beam are used to suspend the enclosure.
The joints in the walls are exaggerated to express the pieces.
AIA VA COMPETITION 2 day competition The competition asks for a space to congregate, contemplate, celebrate, participate, and perform. Roofs, trees, benches, floors, ceilings, and a sphere are hung from one footed trusses.
HANGING STAIR TOWER 4th year | 10 day project A platform and a stair are suspended from two beams supported by four vertical trusses.
STRUCTURE Undergraduate Thesis The work is a study of structure which came to be defined as the relationship of elements. Three primary discoveries: 1. Elements are configured to make space by resisting gravity. 2.
A structure’s dialogue with the ground demonstrates its resistance to gravity.
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The parts of architecture are a composition of tension and compression elements.
The thesis is structured in fourteen studies; four are presented in this document.
The models display the evolution of the work over time and explore how tension and compression elements meet.
STUDY FOURTEEN: THREE BUILDINGS To conclude the thesis, three buildings of three scales and three levels of enclosure are constructed on one site.
The principles studied in the models are present in the design of elements of architecture (walls, floors, roofs, etc).
The spatial relationship of the ground and the path displays gravity.
Scale: 3/32� = 1’
A path passes through the enclosure of the small scale building.
In the medium building, the criss-crossing layers of the roof sit on six beams.
Scale: 1/16� = 1’
All elements have their own identity within the parts of architecture.
Breaks in the roof, wall, and floor provides a distinction between the primary structure and lower order structure.
Scale: 1/16� = 1’
STUDY ELEVEN: LAST CONTRAPTION In a sense, this model is the last contraption and the first building. A contraption and a building are different, but the thesis is still concerned with making space through the configuration of elements.
On the same site, the six beams of one structure span over the columns, beams, rods, and springs of another structure.
STUDY SIX: FLOATING BEAM Once activated, a floating element drops a weight, pulls a lever, and flips a candlestick. A lone structure stands in the corner.
Drawing distills model parts to volumes and removes the materiality.
The arrangement of elements gives more presence to some.
STUDY ONE: SINGLE LEG CANTILEVER The primary elements are separated by connection elements to acknowledge all.
The cantilevering element floats above its support.
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