PORTFOLIO
MATTHEW COX
2020
Map photoshopped from open source NASA image*
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SELECTED WORKS 2020 4
KNOWLEDGE VEIL OAK PARK LIBRARY
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PROCESS-CORE
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NATURAL FOCUS
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EDEN INITIATIVE
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NOHO DESIGN MUSEUM
BOWMAN COMPETITION 2019
120 HOURS COMPETITION
TANGENTS
HANDMADE
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LIBR KNOWLEDGE VEIL OAK PARK LIBRARY
SITE: Oak Park, IL 41°53’11.2”N 87°47’39.3”W TYPE: Library SQFT: 20,000
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KNOWLEDGE VEIL Oak Park Library
Walking along in a suburb of Chicago, the library appears as a veil draped across a street corner. As if pulling back the corner of a book, visitors discreetly enter and then disappear from the outside world. The corner site allows greater access to the library, while leaving a prominent and proud mark on the neighborhood it inhabits. Entering the courtyard transports readers to a boundless and beckoning world of knowledge. The interior courtyard allows visitors to see virtually every part of the library no matter where one stands. This not only provides transparency and visibility to multiple spaces throughout the library, but also serves as an invitation to explore. The bookshelves act as a differentiation of spaces hiding private rooms, such as bathrooms and study rooms, as well as, vertical circulation. The building draws the visitors inside, providing a refuge from the outside world, like a book allows its reader to escape the everyday reality of life.
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Oak Park Library
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“THE ONLY THING THAT YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO KNOW, IS THE LOCATION OF THE LIBRARY.” -ALBERT EINSTEIN
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SITE
LIFT
COURTYARD
The structure sits on a corner in downtown Oak Park, Illinois.
Lifting the corner creates a sense of invitation to the public.
The courtyard allows the visitor to focus on the library’s interior.
VEIL The screen allows for indirect northern light into the library.
Oak Park Library
EAST ELEVATION
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MODEL The model showcases the use of the screen as a veil from the outside world. Material: Acrylic, 3D Prints
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Oak Park Library
FIRST FLOOR PLAN The floor plan illustrates the relationship between the site and the courtyard; additionally, the bookshelves mask the private spaces.
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Oak Park Library
WALL SECTION The wall section cuts through the main screen giving relationship to the exterior and interior construction.
ADULT READING AREA The adult reading space provides a direct visual connection to the children’s area giving inspiration to the young readers and peace of mind to the parents. 12
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MusE PROCESS-CORE NOHO Design Museum SITE: NOHO NYC 40°43’38.3”N 73°59’37.1”W TYPE: Design Museum SQFT: 60,000
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PROCESS-CORE NOHO Design Museum
Design is not just about the final product; it is also about capturing the artist’s journey through the creative process. The museum strives to highlight the designer’s process, as a core function of the building itself. The museum’s center tower functions not only to allow visitors to ascend from one floor to the next, but to highlight the journey of the design process by providing a glimpse of the various objects that they are about to encounter. The building floors are staggered, double-height spaces to allow visitors to observe the objects from various viewpoints, both above and below. This provides the visitors unique perspectives rarely seen in a traditional museum. The facade allows ambient light to flood the galleries while focusing all the attention on the works themselves. The experience gives the visitor a rare glimpse through the designer’s eye, allowing one to see not only the object itself, but the culmination of the creative process.
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APPROACH
LAFAYETTE ST.
NOHO Design Museum
THE FORM OF THE ARCHITECTURE IS THROUGH THE CURVE OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE.
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DIVIDE
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The galleries and public spaces split to divide the public and paying guests.
ATRIUM An atrium is carved out, showcasing the creative process of the designers.
GALLERY SHIFT Gallery floors split to allow the guests to view art from both above and below.
ETCHED GLASS Etched glass wraps the exterior allowing soft light to flood the galleries and libraries.
NOHO Design Museum
LIGHTING Lighting in the lobby hides in the ceiling to give focus to the art.
CAFÉ A Café in the corner of the building allows for views of NYC.
FORESHADOW
PROCESS
STAIRS
Art peaks through the atrium to give a glimpse of what is to come.
Objects on the process tower inform the visitor as to what lies ahead.
Stairs are lined with acid-etched glass to allow light to flood the six floors.
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PROGRAM The floors intentionally alternate to allow visitors to view the art from many angles as if they are the designers observing their work.
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NOHO DESIGn MUSEUm
VERTICAL CIRCULATION The vertical circulation strengthens the idea of the design process by allowing one to see the works multiple times as visitors ascend the building’s atrium.
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NOHO Design Museum
GLASS CONSTRUCTION A double layer, acid-etched glass system is attached to the main structure to allow soft indirect light into the galleries.
GALLERY The galleries are double height providing a direct connection of the artifacts to the central atrium, which houses the design process. 22
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CuLtu NATURAL FOCUS
Mt. Mitchell Heritage Center SITE: Wamego, KS 39.0119° N, 98.4842° W TYPE: Heritage Center AWARDS: Bowman Competition, First Place Honor Award
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NATURAL FOCUS Mt. Mitchell Heritage Center
Hiking up the expansive prairie, the Heritage Center appears barely visible to its visitors, like a rock nestled neatly into the earth, deftly blending in with its surroundings. The limestone walls hide the structures from view, allowing the mountain beyond to be the focus as each visitor ascends to the top. The building’s facade and expansive low lying corten roof blends with the mountain’s wheat-colored grass beyond. As visitors enter the building’s grounds and turn the corner behind its limestone walls, they find themselves immediately facing the mountain peak. The peak is intentionally framed by both its structure and the expansive roof of the exterior courtyard. The form of the building’s walls appears to radiate from the peak of the mountain itself, subconsciously drawing one’s eye towards nature. The structure does not appear to be sitting on the landscape, itself, but rather embracing the mountain as if Mother Nature intentionally placed it there to enshrine the peak.
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MOUNT. MITCHELL
Mt. Mitchell Heritage Center
“STUDY NATURE, LOVE NATURE, STAY CLOSE TO NATURE. IT WILL NEVER FAIL YOU.” - Frank Lloyd Wright
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FOCUS TO SUMMIT Walls of the building are turned inward toward the summit to subconsciously draw the eye up to the mountain.
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HUGGING THE LANDSCAPE The form is bent around the mountain to hug the landscape’s side blending the building naturally into the environment.
RADIAL GRID The peak acts as a compass, and a four-foot grid is established for the architectural elements to be applied.
MT. MITCHELL HERITAGE CENTER
PROGRAMMATIC DIVIDE The building’s program is split to allow the hiking path to easily pass through the heritage center.
UNIFYING ELMEMENT A corten roof helps to blend the landscape with the building and acts as a unifying roof for both structures.
APPROACH The building’s walls are constructed of limestone to help hide the building on the visitor’s approach.
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SITE The heritage center acts as a starting point for the hiking trail up to the peak of Mount Mitchell.
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Mt. Mitchell Heritage Center
FOCUS Turning the corner of the main entrance, the building frames the peak of the mountain.
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1ST FLOOR
FLOOR PLANS Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s prairie-style homes, the building’s wall hides the entrance to pull the visitor’s focus to nature.
BASEMENT
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Mt. Mitchell Heritage Center
STREET VIEW Tucked behind limestone walls, the profile of the building and its low lying roof ensures that nature is the focal point, and the structure is secondary.
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CIRCULATION Red lines depict how the visitors move through the building, while exhibits serve to educate them about the prairie before they embark upon their hike along the trail.
MODEL The model displays the lines of the radial grid with inlaid paint. The base splits in two to become a sectional model. Material: Acrylic, 3D Prints, Plywood 36
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FACT EDEN INITIATIVE 120 HOURS COMPETITION SITE: Ocean 40°15’58.5”N 68°13’00.8”W TYPE: Factory TEAM:Matthew Cox & Hudson Parris
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EDEN INITIATIVE 120 HOURS COMPETITION
Fourteen billion pounds of trash, most of it plastic, is carelessly dumped in the world’s oceans every year. The enormity of this waste problem requires an equally scaled solution. The Eden Initiative is a waste to energy plant that seeks to converge and address two of the greatest challenges confronting mankind today—pollution of our oceans and pollution of our atmosphere. The form gives way to combining a fluid dynamic structure with a tower-like presence that allows one to see for kilometers. The system gathers and consumes tons of trash every hour with the massive intake on the structure’s front. In the building’s belly, waste is burned, and energy is produced in the form of hot gases used to heat water, produce steam, and turn a turbine that generates electricity. As envisioned, the building would be self-supported with trash cleansed from the sea. The height symbolizes the scale of the issue as it floats from port city to port city, inspiring people to do their part by reversing mankind’s abuse of our most precious asset, planet earth.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
120 HOurS COMPETITION
“WATER AND AIR, THE TWO ESSENTIAL FLUIDS ON WHICH ALL LIFE DEPENDS, HAVE BECOME GLOBAL GARBAGE CANS.” - JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU
OCEAN CLEAN UP
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CLASSIC FORM
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The approach was to derive the overarching form from a classic factory smokestack.
HYDRODYNAMIC The form is angled and rounded to allow for a preferred hydrodynamic shape.
WASTE INTAKE An intake is placed at surface level, gathering waste to convert into energy.
LOOKOUT A lookout is added at the top to act as a crow’s nest to find more ocean waste.
120 HOURS COMPETITION
RECYCLING PLANT
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EDEN INITIATIVE
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MATERIAL PROCESSING
GENERATOR
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TRASH TO ENERGY Waste is collected and then burned. Energy is then spawned in the form of hot gases used to heat water, produce steam, and turn a turbine that generates electricity.
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120 HOURS COMPETITION
PROGRAMMATIC SECTION The superstructure acts as a floating city. The structure has all the amenities for life at sea for several months without ever needing to dock. Drawn by hand using Procreate.* 45
120 HOURS COMPETITION
STUDY MODEL The model was made to better understand the form of the structure and the scale of the upper deck in relation to the body. Material: 3D Prints
COMING TO PORT The image gives a real sense of the structure’s scale in relation to the port of New York, as it docks to resupply for its next journey. 46
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TANG HANDMADE
PRODUCTS, DOME, PROPS MATERIALS: Leather, Metal, Plastics, Wood LOCATIONS: Dallas, Los Angeles & Nashville DATES: 2017-2020
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PRODuCts
PRODUCTS “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” - Vincent Van Gogh
TABLE
FURNITURE
A TANGENT...
BEDSIDE TABLE The wood grains are aligned to frame the face. While olive drab paint was applied before the cuts were made to ensure a clean look. Material: Leather, Plywood Time: 2 Weeks
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TANGENTS
GRANDMA’S TABLE A problem arose when a grandmother needed a table for her porch to enjoy social disctancing outdoors. Material: Plywood Time: 3 Days
APPAREL
PLYWOOD SIMPLE BREIFCASE The main design is rustic and simple, with nails as the primary form of adhesion to the wood. Material: Leather, Wood Time: 1 week
LEATHER LAOCOON’S SHIRT The shirt is one of three hand-drawn digital designs depicting portraits of famous sculpture’s and their emotions. Material: Adobe Illustrator, Shirt Time: 2 Days
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DOME
DOME A TANGENT...
GEODESIC DOME
is a 5/8th dome utilizing the Tom Sachs’ “I.S.R.U Dome Recipe,” focusing on the repetitive manufacturing process. Similar to a broken record, the dome’s design creates a repeating pattern. The project’s concept is a double entendre of a broken record that repeats itself, similar to the parts in which the dome is constructed. By reusing records, which were abandoned for more convenient and current electronic mediums, a renewed purpose was given back to a defunct and discarded object.
I.S.R.U
Broken Record
“DON’T FIGHT FORCES USE THEM.” - BUCKMINSTER FULLER, 1981.
TEAM:
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GEODESIC DOME
MATT COX, DJ PLANKINTON ANDREW SMITH, KYLE SERY
The dome was constructed using old vinyl records. Pieces were cut using a soldering iron with a blade attachment. Material: Vinyl records Time: 3 Days
TANGENTS
GLUE TECHNIQUE Once hot glue was put down, a can of compressed air was turned upside down producing fluorocarbons to instantly freeze the records to avoid the vinyl warping. Material: Thermal Adhesive
BRICOLAGE
GLUE ONE MINUTE A one minute short film was produced in conjunction with our dome to document the process of the In-Situ Resource Utilization method. Material: Nikon D5500
FOOTAGE HOW TO BUILD A GEODESIC DOME The dome was published in a work collection produced by Tom Sachs’ studio with other I.S.R.U participants to showcase the many approaches to the MIT summer workshop. Material: Paper
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PROPs
PROPS PROP REPLICA
A TANGENT...
“The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.”
SHIELD
-Adam Savage
SHIELD REPLICA Paint from an old sled was stripped, and the steel was cut to size. Approximately 22 layers of automotive paint were then applied. Material: Leather, Paint, Steel Time: 2 Months
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TANGENTS
BACK OF SHIELD Leather was cut to size and hardware added to the replica to ensure accuracy and functionality. Material: Leather, Steel Time: 2 Months
MACGUFFIN
HARDWARE HELMET REPLICA The replica was made using foam to keep the prop lightweight. Layers of paint were applied to achieve a metallic look on the piece. Material: EVA Foam Time: 3 Days
HELMET CHILD OF XEN Child of Xen is a short film in which twelve custom-designed props were produced. The helmet to the right was created using custom parts, as well as kitbashing to create the final form. Material: Electronics, Plastic Time: 3 Months
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Special thanks to my family, friends, and instructors, who inspire me daily to pursue my passion of Architecture and Design.
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MATTHEW COX +1 817-455-0975 MKCOX96@KSU.EDU
EDUCATION
718 EDWARD COURT, SOUTHLAKE TX 76092
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Manattan, KS MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
2017 TO DATE
BELMONT UNIVERSITY Nashville, TN STUDIED PHYSICS
EXPERIENCE
CORGAN Dallas, TX ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
2015 - 2017
05.2019 - 08.2019
PROJECT: RESPONSIBILITIES: Amazon Data Center Produced drawings and 3D printed project model to show client the finished proposal.
CORGAN Dallas, TX ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
05.2018 - 08.2018
PROJECT: RESPONSIBILITIES: Dallas Love Field Garage Completed punch walks on site finalizing the Building, as well as, worked on red-lines.
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE (AFI) Los Angeles, CA PRODUCTION DESIGN INTERN
06.2017 - 08.2017
PROJECT: RESPONSIBILITIES: Directing Workshop Helped design sets, props and costumes for short For Women films. Worked on set helping the Production Designer.
CAGE THE ELEPHANT: UNPEELED ALBUM Nashville, TN BACKGROUND SINGER
01.2019 - 06.2019
ACTIVITIES + HONORS
SWITCH COMPETITION ALPS RETREAT: 2ND PLACE AWARD Fall 2021 PUBLISHED IN TOM SACHS’: “HOW TO BUILD A GEODESIC DOME” Fall 2020 PUBLISHED IN KSU COLLEGIAN: PRODUCED 2500 PPE SHIEDS Fall 2020 BOWMAN DESIGN FORUM: 1ST PLACE HONOR AWARD Fall 2019 HEAD OF 3D PRINTING: DIGITAL FABRICATION CLUB 2019 TO DATE ASSISTANT EDITOR: “OZ” ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL VOL 41, 2019
SKILLS
DIGITAL:
Adobe Premier Blender Enscape Fusion 360 Grasshopper Illustrator InDesign MS Office Photoshop Procreate Revit Rhino Vray 3DS Max
FABRICATION: Acrylic Painting Brazing CNC Routting Drafting Hand Drawing Laser Cutting Leather Work Soldering Model Making Wood Working 3D Scanning 3D Printing
References Available Upon Request