Matthew Roberts Portfolio Spring 2015

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Matthew Roberts

Bachelor of Architecture 2015

Table of Contents

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Iconostasis Museum Portland, OR | Winter 2013

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Nuovo Forum Civico Vicenza, IT | Spring 2013

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Oregon Bilds Eugene, OR | Autumn 2014

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Universite Omar Bongo

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James Beard Public Market

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Travel Sketches

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Enclosure Detailing

Libreville, GB | Winter 2014

Portland, OR | Winter 2015

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Approach to Iconostasis Museum from East

Iconostasis Museum

Winter 2013

Portland, Oregon

The Iconostasis Museum is a home for the restoration, preservation, and exhibiton of Orthodox Christian iconography. It seeks to widen the knowledge base of this ancient art in North America and provide a alternative in both viewing experience and arts education in the city.

Located in the Pearl District, the Museum is comprised of galleries, preservation facilities, and a school that includes both classrooms and offices + accomodations for iconography scholars and instructors.

Challenges here include basic site problems such as a location next to a major freeway loop, how to provide lighting to two oors of galleries stacked on top of one another, and how exactly should icons, which are explicitly relgious, be exhibited in a secular context?

Location

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Right: Grand entry atrium

from outer courtyard, with views of bridges into galleries Below: students hang out in the inner courtyard between the school and the museum

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Left: Inner hallway between icon galleries and courtyard. Doors through atrium to galleries. Golden wall link to special room of gallery.

Below: Icon galleries with light filtering in through daylighting grilles. Trying to recreate color and feeling of Orthodox churches

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First Floor

Second Floor

North-South Section

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Third Floor

East-West Section

Fourth Floor

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Entry to Piazza Biade From Northeast

Nuovo Forum Civico Vicenza, Italy Spring 2013 Vicenza is an ancient city in the Po River valley between Verona and Padova whose civic core is focused at one building, the Basillica Palladiana, the old center of town administration. Rather uniquely, on each side of the Basillica is one of the city’s four main pizzae, including the city’s heart, P. Signori.

The site of the Forum Civico lies to the east of the Basilica, currently occupied by a postwar city office building, at the intersection of Piazza Signori and Piazza Biade, the second largest of the main piazzae. Due to a series of bad decisions in the post-war period, this has become a neglected and somewhat leftover part of the central urban ensemble.

What responsibilites does a modern public building have in such a resolutly historic urban space? The Forum Civico aims to replace an austere set of offices with a more approachable and contextual building that includes support and service functions for the piazzae and the Basillica.

Market space at the south of the project serves to reinforce the weekly market that happens south of the Basilica in Piazza delle Erbe. And the auditorium and accompanying small and medium event rooms on the upper floors provide spaces lacking in the city center. The rest of the building serves as a new home for the Palladio Library and Museum currently housed in one of the city’s palazzi.

Location

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Right: People mill about in the atrium overlooking Piazza Biade before a performance in the main auditorium.

Below: Visitors browse in the Palladio Library at the south end of the Forum.

Above: Attendees file into the auditorium filled with light before a performance.

Left: Visitors

experience and examine sculpture in a visiting exhibit in the galleries of the Museum.

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Green Room WC

WC

Lobby

Coat Check

Green Room

Restaurant Stor.

Market

Market

Market

First Floor

Facade Response

East-West Section

Second Floor

Engaging Public Space

Third

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Aud. Lobby Sm. Mtg. Breakout Rm.

Sm. Mtg.

Auditorium WC WC

Main Mtg.

Aud. Serving

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Sm. Mtg.

Breakout Rm.

Off.

Palladio Library

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Conf.

Off.

Palladio Archives

Floor

Palladio Gallery

Fourth Floor

Fifth Floor

North Elevation

Building Hierarchy

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Street Perspective of House

Oregon BILDS House Eugene, Oregon Autumn 2013 Oregon BILDS is a design-build program at the University of Oregon and Lane Community College focused on providing students hands-on experience as well as giving firsttime homebuyers the chance for a affordable architect-designed house. Winter 2013 was the first time the program was able to have everything fall into place in order to actually build a house.

The program also included coordination with two local affordable housing organizations, one which provided the site in northwest Eugene and the other which funneled the potential homebuyers through a series of homeownership classes and provided some financing.

Our end design was a collaboration between all members of the studio: an approximately 2000SF, 3 bedroom, 2 bath house with attached garage. My participation was only in the first term design studio, while construction occured in the second two terms before summer break, when the house was sold and occupied.

Location

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Elevations

Kitchen Perspective

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Construction Drawings + Details

OREGON BILDS WINDOW SCHEDULE UNIT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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FLOOR 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2

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ROOM LIVING LIVING DINING KITCHEN KITCHEN BATHROOM 1 MASTER BDRM W MASTER BDRM S BATHROOM 2 BDRM 1 BDRM 2 BDRM 2

STAIRWELL

WINDOW SIZE 6'-0” X 5'-0” 6'-0” X 5'-0” 7'-0” X 6'-0” 3'-0” X 4'-0” 3'-0” X 4'-0” 2'-0” X 3'-0” 3'-2” X 4'-4” 3'-2” X 4'-4” 2'-0” X 3'-0 3'-2” X 4'-4” 3'-2” X 4'-4” 3'-2” X 4'-4”

1'-9 1/2” X 2'-5 1/2”

SIZE

R/O 6'-0 1/2” X 5'-0 1/2” 6'-0 1/2” X 5'-0 1/2” 7'-0 1/2” X 6'-0 1/2” 2'-8 1/2” X 3'-9 1/2” 2'-8 1/2” X 3'-9 1/2” 2'-0 1/2” X 3'-0 1/2” 3'-2 1/2” X 4'-4 1/2” 3'-2 1/2” X 4'-4 1/2” 2'-0 1/2” X 3'-0 1/2” 3'-2 1/2” X 4'-4 1/2” 3'-2 1/2” X 4'-4 1/2” 3'-2 1/2” X 4'-4 1/2”

1'-10” X 2'-6”

R.O. HEAD @ 7'-7" 7'-7" 7'-7" 7'-7" 7'-7" 7'-9" 7'-9" 7'-9" 7'-9" 7'-9" 7'-9" 7'-9"

TYPE (2) SINGLE HUNG (2) SINGLE HUNG FIXED 4-LITE SINGLE HUNG SINGLE HUNG SINGLE HUNG SINGLE HUNG SINGLE HUNG SINGLE HUNG SINGLE HUNG SINGLE HUNG SINGLE HUNG

OPERABLE SKYLIGHT

OREGON BILDS DOOR SCHEDULE

DESCRIPTION

SAFTEY GLASS EGRESS EGRESS SAFETY GLASS EGRESS EGRESS EGRESS SAFETY GLASS

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Park/Plaza at New Student Housing on Leon Mba

Universite Omar Bongo Master Plan Libreville, Gabon Winter 2014 Universite Omar Bongo is the primary institute of higher learning in Gabon, a small oil-rich nation on the equitorial coast of western Africa. Our project started the process of putting forth the first comprehensive master plan the university had had in its 40+ year existence. UOB’s current infrastructurue consists mainly of buildings from the 1970s and 1980s that can really only deal with 1/2 the capacity of its current student body of ~20,000.

The new plan’s aim was therefore to present several proposals for future campus renovation and expansion while maintaining the few parts of the campus that users did love.

Our team focused on designing an alternative for maximum redevlopment, replacing most existing buildings under 3 stories in the next decade or so and gradually creating a more comprehensive campus fabric.

Key challenges included climatic-responsive design for the tropics such as maximum shading and cross-ventilation as well as site hydrology/slope/stormwater concerns.

Campus has just recently been fully airconditioned and brownouts do occasionally occur so having buildings still comfortable without power was a priority, and the lower parts of campus often ood during the rainy season.

Location

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Phase One

Phase Two

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Final Phase

Alternative

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North Entrance of the Market Hall

James Beard Public Market Portland, Oregon Winter 2015 For all of its food culture and local ethic, Portland hasn’t had a permanent public market to bring all the residents of the city together around food since the Terminal Market in the 1940s. James Beard Public Market aims to correct that with a market hall at the western foot of the Morrison Bridge in the heart of downtown.

My proposal aims to embrace another unique part of the Portland culture as its model: the negotiation and acceptance that happens on downtown streets around food carts—the coexistance of merchants, customers, passers-through, and the homeless sitting down. In the market this is expanded to a wider focus on accessibilty and safety for all, including the homeless and disabled.

The ground oor envronment is designed both to have plenty of space for everyone to comfortably share and to have defensible spaces out of the way for people to feel safe. Other challenges included negotiating the space across and around the landing of the Morrison Bridge, which I decided to contain within tubes that double as billboards. Fruit trees are planted at the edge of Naito to both soften road noise and pollution as well as provide produce for sale.

Location

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36%

PKG

21% PKG

10% PKG

Parking

Homelessness + Resources

Bicycle Traffic

Auto Traffic

Streets + Plazas

Figure-Ground

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First Floor

Second Floor

East-West Section

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Third Floor

Site Plan

Longitudinal Section

Details from Shelter for Roman Ruins, Chur, Switzerland

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Analysis of Piazzetta Andrea Palladio, Vicenza, Italy

Early 20th Century Social Housing, Vicenza, Italy

Village of Leis, Switzerland

Travel Sketches Sketches and analytical drawings from term-long study abroad trip to Northern Italy and Switzerland in the spring of 2013.

Saint Benedict Chapel, Sumvitg, Switzerland Brion-Vega Cemetery, San Vito D’Altivole, Italy

Ca D’oro, Venice, Italy

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CAST STONE CAP SEALANT BED CAP MOUNTING PEG CAP FLASHING 2X10 STUD R35 ROCK WOOL BATT

3" BRICK VENEER

5 8"

GYP BOARD

EPDM ROOF

BRICK TIE

R15 XPS RIGID R38 XPS RIGID

1 21" DENSGLAS

CONC. DECK L 6X6X83 WELDED PLATE HSS 8X10X38

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SCALE: 3” = 1’ - 0”

MATTHEW ROBERTS

BRICK VENEER BRICK TIE

FLASHING

CONC. DECK L 6X6X38 WELDED PLATE

L 5X6X21

HSS 8X10X38

WELDED SPLICE PLATE

WELDED CONNECT. PLATE HSS 8X10X83 2X10 STUDS

CONC. LINTEL WINDOW RETURN PLATE

5 8"

GYP. BOARD

STEEL MTG. PLATE KAWNEER 450T WINDOW UNIT

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SCALE: 3” = 1’ - 0”

MATTHEW ROBERTS

BRICK VENEER

3" XPS

Enclosure Detailing

2X10 SILL PLATE

1 21" DENSGLAS

Details of a brick veneer enclosure on steel frame at the parapet, window, and awning of a building for fifth-year enclosures class.

Also included is overall axonometric view of the entire wall system.

2X10 DOUBLE JAMB L 7X6X21

L 3X5 21X83

HSS 8X8X83

CANOPY ANCHOR GLASS CANOPY

WT 6X20

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SCALE: 3/4” = 1’ - 0”

1 21" DENSGLAS BRICK TIE R15 XPS RIGID 3" BRICK VENEER GLASS CANOPY CANOPY ANCHOR

FLASHING L 7X6X21

W 5X20

MATTHEW ROBERTS

1x4 WOOD FINISH

CONNECTOR PLATE 5 8"

GYP BOARD

HSS 8X10X38 2X10 STUD

GUTTER

WT6X20 L 3X5 21X38 CLOSED CELL SPRAY FOAM

3 8"

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SCALE: 3” = 1’ - 0”

PLATE

MATTHEW ROBERTS