MATT NYKAMP Portfolio of Works
1801 E 12th Street, Apt 912 Cleveland, OH 44114 United States Cell: (616) 293-8774 Email: Mnykamp@kent.edu Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/mnykamp Works: www.Issuu.com/mattnykamp
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Piazza Fluttuante
Net Positive Home
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RiverLink
30 Minute Sketching
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Deeply Rooted
Piazza Fluttuante
Net Positive Home
Sculpture Gallery
RiverLink
30 Minute Sketching
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DEEPLY ROOTED First Year of Graduate School, Fall 2014
URBAN NETWORKING
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This project seeks to grow Midtown as a unique district within Cleveland, Focusing on integrating innovative digital technology into the social fabric of the city. Over a sequence of phases, new technologically-based business would be brought into the area, along with mixed-use development to build a stable core population and amenities. Open social spaces would act as a catalyst for community involvement and collaboration moving into the future.
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Phase 1: Technology 1 - Parking Structure 2 - Data Park 3 - Data Center 8
4 - Shared Tech Offices/Meeting 5 - Collaboration Lane 6 - Pierres Walking Trail
Phase 2: Connection 1 - Renovated Retail 2 - Shared Recreation Park 3 - Community/Education Center
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5 - Mixed Use - Dining/Residential
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4 - New Retail
7 - Research Greenhouses
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Phase 3: Community 1 - Row Housing 2 - Townhouses/Apartments 3 - New Retail 4 - The Hub 5 - Single Family Homes
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University Circle & Downtown Deeply rooted aims to grow rich digital and physical social spaces. Leveraging the area's broadband fiber infrastructure, Deeply Rooted attracts both new technology businesses and current neighborhood residents to interact in a dynamic public realm.
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Attract
Technology Companies
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Community
Programs & Events
"For each new high-tech job in a metropolitan area, five additional local jobs are created outside of high tech in the long run." -Economist Enrico Moretti in the new geography of jobs
Section of Data Center & park. Heat generated by servers recycled and redistributed into public spaces
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Create a Network of Green space
By overlapping Greenspace on a Fiberoptic network it is possible to create practical attractive public green space while allowing for access to the fiberoptic infrastructure for future maintanence as well as creating a unique opportunity to help visualize what is otherwise invisible.
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Establish Anchor population
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Create a geographic area where anchor institutions and companies cluster and connect with small firms, start-ups, business incubators and accelerators. Physically compact, Transit-accessible, and technically wired, they offer mixeduse housing, office and retail.
Proximity is everything.
Well designed collaborative spaces provide the opportunity for workers to interact with others and share ideas. Innovation districts are this centuries productive geography.
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PIAZZA FLUTTUANTE Third Year, Spring 2013
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ARCHITECTURE OF THE SPACE
Piazza Fluttuante
A piazza is an experience; it is a moment of relief and of connection. It is necessary for architecture to serve the piazza, instead of the piazza shaping itself to serve the architecture. A unique opportunity is presented when a point of connection between different walks of life comes into being. This opportunity is to create a "center of pause" where an individual comes upon an atmosphere that comforts him and provides reasons to shop and stay.
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The goals of the Piazza Fluttuante or "Fluctuating Piazza" as well as the accompanying gastronomy center have four components. It aims to connect the market and piazza, to conserve the idea of what a piazza is while adding structure, to cooperate with the locals and have the new gastronomy center purchase their supplies from the market, and to cultivate the area to become a center of the liberal arts by connecting the school of art the school of architecture and the new gastronomy center together with a pedestrian road.
SITE DEFINITION
Original site boundaries included only the Piazza Lorenzo with the option to affect the marketplace minimally. The project goal personally was to connect the two.
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EXISTING CIRCULATION
CONTEXTUAL EXTENSION
Non-vehicular users treated the piazza as a shortcut to get from the underground parking lot under the piazza to the rest of the city or to the marketplace.
By taking lines from existing classic structures and extending them across the site a faceted image is portrayed onto the piazza and the marketplace, connecting the two in a minimalistic yet powerful way.
CONNECT
DESIGN FOOTPRINT By splitting the program of the design into five pieces and using the shapes that were created by line extension. It was possible to create a footprint for the multi-structured design without taking too much away from the piazza
CONSERVE
COOPERATE
CULTIVATE
GROUND FLUCTUATION
RESULTANT CIRCULATION
In order to further connect the market and piazza as well as create a interesting landscape that would attract the public, the shapes that were created by extention lines were raised and lowered by 30 inches to create unique space as well as gathering/natural seating.
The combination of extension lines, ground fluctuation as well as the size, shape and placement of the new structure creates a new pedestrian road connecting the piazza and the marketplace.
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ASPECTS OF DESIGN
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CENTER OF PAUSE
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POSITIVE ENERGY HOME Fourth Year, Fall 2013
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The project goal is to develop designs for affordable positive energy homes that can be used in various locations. Habitat for Humanity as well as Zion cdc build 1200 square foot homes for families struggling financially. In order to achieve a Net Zero or Net Positive Home energy rating a number of variables need to be considered and implemented in Design. The designer needs to start the project and work in tandem with sustainability in mind as well as beauty. The Different implementations of sustainable design that was used to gain a Home energy rating of a 0% home as well as a -18% home are:
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-Proper building orientation -High quality Double pain Low-E glazing -Proper glazing area 7-8% on South facade -Super Insulation -Radiant Barrier above insulation -Stucco on 4-1/2� SIP Panels -Cool Roof -Ceramic Tile on Wood Sub-floor, above grade -Sealed Building via tight construction
-Gentle Air Velocity with Smart ceiling fans -Split system Heat pump for 0% rating -Biomass furnace for -18% rating -Natural Ventilation, No A/C -Light Translucent Automated Shades -High Efficiency Appliances - 85% Heat Recovery Ventilator -0% Duct Leakage loss -Solar Water heater -PV System producing 6,154.92 KWH/year
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
HOME ENERGY RATING
ENERGY COSTS Fans, Blowers & Lights Equipment and Appliances Electric Heat or Heat Pump Furnace Fuel
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Air Conditioner
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Solar Hot Water Generated on Site
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PV Generated On Site
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Water Heater
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Appliance Fuel
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DOGTROT LAYOUT
SLIDING WALL PANELS
Enter from Front or back, Seperates Home into sections, Allows for open yet private plan.
Create Different Public Zones and close off zones that you wish to be private.
BERNOULLI EFFECT Windows positioned to catch air and pass through the home for natural ventilation.
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SCULPTURE GALLERY Third Year, Fall 2012
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PROGRAM AS IDEA
The cloud formations width superimposed upon the side of the site.
Design must adapt to current changes in society as well as being flexible enough to adapt even further for future changes.
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The design of the Akron Art Museum’s outdoor sculpture garden is an opportunity to show efficiency, design and beauty in its simplest forms. The sculpture gallery responds using both pre-existing conditions as well as using new strategies. By bending and folding the site it was possible to create a simplistic but artistic landscape.
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A feeling of enclosure is created by lifting the site on the south west ground plane to create a bowl like effect, This leaves the site open to the air and to the exterior while also creating its own defined borders. These borders act to dampen the considerable noise from High Street while controlling passage in and out of the gallery.
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FOLD
Faceted planes implemented in the shaping of the border to achieve an even look and slope then they were bent and folded to create a sculptural yet functional plane.
ELEVATION
PLAN
MOVEMENT By utilizing moveable seating control of the flow of foot traffic through the site is achieved. By changing the placement of the seating would allow the path of the site to be adapted to different sculpture sizes and locations. It lets sculpture to be placed in high visibility areas to create a story through movement.
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RIVERLINK Fourth Year, Fall 2013
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Design a catalyst for defining the future of Elyria, As well as being a tool for the collective impact for the greater community in the public, private and institutional sectors. Redesign Ely Square to be attractive and interactive in order to encourage a greater sense of community. Design a landscape that utilizes existing site amenties in order to maximize connection From Ely square and East falls. As well as helping solve social and physical problems in the city To create an axis of change for the city, and bring movement, excitement and life to a stagnant city in order to re-energize it. To create a bridge between: The City and Nature The Older & Younger Generation The Past and the Future
Central Atrium added
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Slanted Surfaces
Roof Extension
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The Problems Of Elyria: Younger people do not feel welcome in Elyria because the older generation doesn't want young people around because the General opinion of younger generation is poor. The younger Generation tends to indulge in unhealthy activites because There are no healthy activies in the city to keep the younger generation out of trouble. Amenities of Elyria are rarely thought of or used because the city feels both stale as well as unsafe to the residents because no one uses the park or square, police are viewed as oppressive, there are undesirables present and business' left the city Because the Falls/trails are hard to find, trails are in poor condition, the square is not intereactive, the city is visually unatractive.
Jumping Fountain
Public Playground
Replace existing stagnant fountain with a jumping fountain. Allowing for a full spectrum of use in all seasons.
Re-engineered Path
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Creating a public playground next to the police station will help cast the police in a better light, as well as attract younger families to the area
Creating a main path through Ely square which links the square to the site, as well as visually linking the square to the riverside.
Cascade park trails
Expansion
Canopy Structure
Design the Square in a way that will allow for future expansion into the empty parking lot to the west of Ely square.
Upgrading the cascade park trails to allow cyclists and hikers to fully enjoy cascade park
Constructuing a canopy structure connects Ely square and the riverside visually, as well as highlighting the entry into the Cascade Park Bike path
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30 MIN SKETCHING Third Year, Spring 2013
SANTA MARIA NOVELLA
Piazza Santa Maria Novella, and beyond, the winding and cobbled secrets of this charming city, Piazza Santa Maria Novella is a jewel in the heart of historic Firenze. Home of a number of high energy tourist attractions as well as a ideal place to enjoy a good book while letting yourself become swept into crowds of locals and tourists alike. Basking in the knowledge that this space has remained as it is for eight hundred years, since its first use for overflowing crowds of worshipers to today's use for public enjoyment.
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VENETIEN GONDOLA
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THE PANTHEON
OBSERVATIONS
Niches in the cupola scatter sound waves in a way that creates a unique audial experience. A typical roman temple appearance from the exterior funnels into a large grand space, Relics and gods line the exterior. This creates a sense of peace and new space. Pagan relics of the roman age were taken out in later centuries. They were replaced with Christian relics. This action has taken away from the experience of the pantheon. The Pantheon also is home of the largest cupola, the section shows the ability to hold a perfect sphere and has a seamless look. Imperial roman citizens and others who visited the pantheon must have experienced a great spiritual connection with their gods. The design would have been beyond their understanding.
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OBSERVATIONS
MUSEO DELL’ARA PACIS
White materials as well as glazing are the superior element in the design. The vertical structure is a light brownstone is the only deliberate variation. The vertical structure keeps itself from being too solid and dominating the scene by having a small space between the blocks it is constructed from, as you walk past the wall you see flashes of light from the seams of the wall material. This helps keep the large solid structure from dominating the space. A strikingly simple and artistic solution to the site involving a rejection of the nearby road by focusing the fountain and the stairs away from the road, as well as having the heavy vertical wall which dominates the facade design blocking a majority of the site from traffic.
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AUDITORIUM PARCO DELLA MUSICA OBSERVATIONS The exterior spaces are made of brick, similar to the material used by the ancient Romans. Done in an attempt to connect the auditorium with its roots. The site also surrounds an excavation of a Roman farmhouse. From the Auditorium you can look down on the excavation from a museum showing ancient pottery. The music auditorium seems to be an attempt to push Rome into a more modern and freeform type of Architecture, without losing connections to its imperial past. The interior of the auditoriums are a pleasant mix between American cherry wood as well as Roman red of the auditoriums seating.
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FIRENZE
CASTELVECCHIO The museum is designed to resemble a theatre as the architect seen many of the features to be fake. To reinforce this idea of fakeness Scarpa added to the entrance a barrier which is commonly found in theatres to separate the public from the actors.
PALAZZO DAVANZATI
SIENA CATHEDRAL
1. Holy water Stoups 2. St. francis de sales 3. St. Catherine 4. Bell Tower 5. Madonna 6. St. Crescentius
7. Nativity 8. Wooden chair 9. Stained glass 10. Main Alter 11. Bishop tomb 12. Candlabra
13. Nicola Pisano 14. Saint Ansanus 15. St John the baptist 16. Piccolomini Library 17. Piccolomini Alter 18. Pavement
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