MATTHEW BUTTS / SELECTED PROJECTS 2016-2017
PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE
BUTTS Matthew 403 rue Anatole France 34130 Mauguio France matthieu.butts@me.com 06 80 71 84 02 Born 25/09/1994 in Charenton-le-Pont Driver’s Licence holder Master 2 Student at the National Superior School of Architecture in Montpellier, France. www.issuu.com/matthieubutts
PROFESSIONNAL EXPERIENCE
2016 Internship in the AUDD Architecture Office in Lunel 2 month Project design, 2D and 3D design, Construction site supervision, Meeting with clients ... Auto-entrepreneur MBArchitecture Project design, 2D et 3D design, Meeting with clients ... 2015 Internship in the AUDD Architecture Office in Lunel 1 month Project design, 2D and 3D design, Contruction site supervision, Meeting with clients ... Internship in Reboul Consulting Office in Clapiers 1 month Project design, 2D and 3D design, Construction site supervistion ... 2014 Internship in the AUDD Architecture Office in Lunel 2 month Project design, 2D and 3D design ...
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2015 Architecture Degree National Superior School of Architecture in Montpellier 2012 Scientific Baccalaureate European English Section Jean-Franรงois Champollion Highschool in Lattes
SKILLS AND LANGUAGES
AutoCad ArchiCad AllPlan Adobe (Ps, Id, Ai) Google SketchUp Artlantis Languages : English / Bilingual Spanish / Intermediate
HOBBIES
Sports / Soccer, Athleticism, Basketball
ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE ENSAM S3 PROFESSOR : D. HAMERMAN
THREE HOUSES IN SETE
The project consists of designing three eco-participatory houses in downtown Sète, each one in a different materiality : wood, steel and masonry. The arrangement of the houses on the plot was designed to blend into the dense urban context of the city of Sète, its mediterranean climate, and to allow openings towards the exterior common spaces while maintaining privacy in the interaction between the project and the street, clearing views to the waterway. The eco-participatory program entails private accommodations and common spaces, raising the question of cohabitation and privacy. The project answers that problematic by the edification of walls in the exterior common space which allow the distribution of the different uses and a gradation of intimacy in space.
Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Wooden Construction Detail Section
Transversal Section
ARCHITECTURE ENSAM S4 PROFESSOR : G. JOURDAN
HOUSE IN PALAVAS
The aim of this project is to design an individual house for a family on the beach in Palavas. The program entails an open ground floor which communicates directly with the exterior environment, and a first floor that includes the more private parts of the house, with framed views on the sea and beach. The project is therefore separated into two distinct spaces, including functional blocks structured around the staircase. The first block on the ground floor includes a lavatory, the chimney and a working surface for the kitchen. It articulates the living spaces of the house, namely the kitchen, a dining room facing the exterior and a more intimate living room. Two blocks on the first floor include the master bedroom and the childrens’ bedrooms, leaving an open modular space crossing both blocks. The design of this individual house is directly inspired by the surrounding environment , as it is drawn as a massive block punctuated by a play on the contrast between a layered stone mineral materiality and a light wood materiality allowing for framed views and wide terraces oriented towards the sea.
Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Section AA
Section BB
ARCHITECTURE ENSAM S5 PROFESSOR : F. SAINT-CRICQ
CONTEMPRARY ARTS CENTER
This contemporary art center project is located on the Jean Baumel plaza, in the north of Montpellier. The analysis work we did of this site brought us to design a project that would be adapted to the scale of the project while keeping in mind the scale of the neighborhood, building a contemporary art center on a parking lot used by the inhabitants as a backyard. From that postulate emerged the idea of designing a « unitary urban area », composed of urban spaces (an art center, a playground, a parking lot, a pine wood …) which could be used by the inhabitants as well as the art center customers. The project therefore appears in three concrete blocks which allow it to articulate the reception, an exhibition hall of 300m2, and a technical space which includes the lavatory and a storage room. These three blocks are linked by a corridor which offers additional display surfaces for exhibitions. Natural light enlightens the corridor through moucharabies, the reception via the open facade, and the exhibition hall with saw-tooth roofing.
Longitudinal Section
Site Plan
Transversal Section
Floor Plan
The project’s volumetry generates a third facade that dynamizes the plaza and creating specific exterior spaces with various functions, buffering areas between the art center and the public space. The contemporary art center is therefore extended throughout the plaza, generating fluidity between the architectural project and its public space, where the routine of the neighborhood’s inhabitants can carry on.
Shed Detail Section
ARCHITECTURE ENSAM S6 PROFESSOR : E. NEBOUT
COLLECTIVE HOUSING
This collective housing project is located in a low density neighborhood in the north of Montpellier, on a plot next to a wooded area with high pine trees. The program includes 38 housing units separated into two buildings that are articulated along the borders of the plot. The first building, separated from the street by a difference in level and a dry stone wall, paints a new urban facade and creates a mask effect to create a calm exterior space for the benefit of the inhabitants. Pedestrian and cycling distribution channels the inhabitants through the gardens to the vertical structure that services the housing units ranging from T2 to T5.
Site Plan
South Facade
First Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Floor Plan
Section AA
Section BB
Each housing unit benefits from living spaces oriented toward the south-west, opening onto a large terrace with views of Montpellier and the pine trees. Sliding shutters allow solar protection for the units in R+1 and R+2 whereas pergolas offer that protection for the simplexes and duplexes in R+3. The bedrooms and bathrooms are oriented to the north-east. The building’s structure is ensured by the concrete load-bearing walls that support the floors and separate the housing units. The building’s envelope includes the exterior thermal insulation and a wood coating of the south facade, and a white coating for the north facade. The duplexes create a difference in the roof heights giving rhythm to the facades and drawing the project’s singular profile. Detail Section
ARCHITECTURE ENSAM S8 PROFESSOR : M. ROUAUD
CHURCH REFURBISHMENT
This project was designed in partnership with the town planning services of the city of Perpignan, with the aim of offering an innovative way to design the historic centre, which is today suffering from growing decay. The analysis we did, with two other students, of the Saint-Jacques neighborhood lead us to work on the refurbishment of a church that lays in ruins in the centre of the city. Reflecting the needs expressed by the inhabitants and the facilities surrounding our site, we chose to insert a cultural centre linked to the Casa Musicale, a music, dance and cinematic center bordering the church. The program therefore includes free associative spaces, an associative kitchen and bar and a performance hall with two hundred seats. This performance hall had to be adaptable to serve the needs of representations that could be at the scale of the neighborhood as well as at the scale of the city. Adjustable acoustic panels and a monumental vertical door on the south facade bring flexibility to this space and fluidity towards the gardens framed by the church ruins.
Floor Plan
Longitudinal Section
Plan Masse
Transversal Section
Detail Section
The aim of this project, in relation to the city’s historic centre, is also to reconnect the new and existing facilities with the rest of the neighborhood by handling the topographic difference that exists between the church and the street. To do so we proceeded with the destruction of one of the surrounding buildings to create a new access by way of a staircase from the public space below. Another access is allowed via a concrete corridor which services the performance hall and highlights the architectural design of the cultural center, enhancing the church’s facade through its horizontality and its materiality. The other spaces of the project are built out of wood for reasons of implementation. The proper ventilation and lighting of the performance hall are ensured by openings that allow framed views on the ruins of the church, spotlighting the dialogue between a light contemporary architecture and the power of the older religious architecture.
URBAN PLANNING
URBAN PLANNING ENSAM S7 PROFESSOR : C. MORALES
URBAN DESIGN IN PERPIGNAN
This urban planning project is situated in the south eastern part of the city of Perpignan, on an agricultural wasteland. The site is surrounded by two city entrances on the east and west sides, a bypass and a commercial area on the south side and landlocked suburban housings on the north side. Our team, myself and two other students, chose to consider the renewal of the city entrances as the start of a new urban project irrigated by a structuring axis. This axis would link the two entrances together and structure the new urban spread. The natural resources that are offered by the region of Perpignan allowed us to develop an urban project favoring urban farming and the implementation of a short circuit benefiting the convenience stores.
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REFERENCE MAP
PROGRAM ELEMENTS
There is a dynamic entrance on the west side, Paul Alduy street, including a railway stop. On the east side, Elne street is redesigned to blend in with the landscape, with a multimodal exchange platform. The new transport networks allow for fluid traffic between the new facilities through the main axis. The new urbanization gravitates around four squares which benefits a new neighborhood dynamics. The new gridwork becomes an extension of the existing grid, thus creating a progressive fluidity between the old and the new. Site Plan
Alongside the grapevines, we favored town house typologies arranged by blocks patterned by the axes that allow views on the surrounding nature. Around the commercial area, offices make the transition from commercial typologies to collective housing buildings. Agricultural hangars are placed along the railroad to create an acoustique barrier to protect the housing units.
URBAN PLANNING ENSAM S9 ENSEIGNANT : M. ROUAUD
SPOT PERPIGNAN
For this public space project we decided, with three other students, to base our work on the needs expressed by the inhabitants of the Saint-Jacques neighborhood in Perpignan that are collected in the « Gulliver charter ». It indicates clearly a request for the improvement of the existing public spaces and a lack of facilities or premises that could be made available for the many associations of the neighborhood. Furtheremore, the Saint-Jacques neighborhood is currently being restructured, resulting in more and more infills in the city. These infills are nowadays condemned or transformed into plain bituminous surfaces, laking development for an unknown period of time. The SPOT project’s aim is to invest these infill regarding the period of time they are freed and the needs of the inhabitants, the facilities being either temporary or definitive. SPOT therefore establishes a rapid intervention, favoring the use of available resources, the participation of the inhabitants to allow a true appropriation of the different sites and the opportunity to perpetuate a public space by magnifying the ruins and allowing its appropriation by the inhabitants. For this public space project we decided, with three other students, to base our work on the needs expressed by the inhabitants of the Saint-Jacques neighborhood in Perpignan that are collected in the « Gulliver charter ». It indicates clearly a request for the improvement of the existing public spaces and a lack of facilities or premises that could be made available for the many associations of the neighborhood. Furtheremore, the Saint-Jacques neighborhood is currently being restructured, resulting in more and more infills in the city. These infills are nowadays condemned or transformed into plain bituminous surfaces, laking development for an unknown period of time. The SPOT project’s aim is to invest these infill regarding the period of time they are freed and the needs of the inhabitants, the facilities being either temporary or definitive. SPOT therefore establishes a rapid intervention, favoring the use of available resources, the participation of the inhabitants to allow a true appropriation of the different sites and the opportunity to perpetuate a public space by magnifying the ruins and allowing its appropriation by the inhabitants.
We therefore determined three plots that became infills in the past year and that offer possibilities of exploitation : plot 149, plot 302 and plot 64. The plot 302, by its size and its location in the neighborhood, offers sport facilities. The destruction of the sidewalk allows to level the ground and to reuse the material as embankments that will accommodate the stadium. Bleachers create seats and red paint on the ground allows the appropriation of the space by children. The existing structure welcomes nets and climbing holds that create a climbing playground. The plot 149 is a typical example of the demolitions that occur in the historic center of the Saint-Jacques neighborhood. A massive structure of IPN profiles holds the facades on each side of the plot together. For SPOT, this existing structure is an opportunity to offer an associative room that would be available for the various associations in the neighborhood. Designing a simple and cheap wooden floor and a polycarbonate roof that graft to the structure allows to create a space large enough to welcome many different activities. A mezzanine floor shelters a more intimate space and oriented strand board panels along the wall allows large storage spaces, as large openings ensure fluidity towards the outside. The plot 64, thanks to its proximity to the future university and the Natural History Museum of Perpignan, holds a cafĂŠ and a associative room. A wooden floor and bleaches between the existing buttresses welcome these facilities. Two large modules separate the public space and design seats and suggest a stage area where can take place a theater play, a concert or open air cinema. Intimacy for the cafĂŠ is created by a pergola on which are attached the lights and vine can climb.
DESIGN
DESIGN ENSAM S3 PROFESSOR : P. SOTTO
QUARTZ CHAIR
This project was designed in partnership with the company V-Korr. The aim was to create, with another student, designer furniture that would appear as a sculpture when not in use. The Quartz Chair is distinguished by the shape of its V-Korr shell that mirrors the form of natural minerals formed par large crystals such as quartz. Once closed, this modular outdoor chair becomes an immaculate cocoon with an elegant refined profile. A simple articulation allows the user to deploy the upper part of the shell into a dual deck chair that enables two people to sit face to face. The insides of each shell reveal organic shapes that design two chairs. The ergonomics of these seats are insured by their profile and a flexible Bultex foam. The layout of the chairs permit three different positions : one lying on the lower part of the shell, one sitting on the upper part, and another one sitting on the edge of the lower part. The seating positions are complementary in that they allow the two people that are sitting down to be facing one another.
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