Matus Ferguson
Architectural Portfolio
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Architectural Portfolio Matus Ferguson Professional References Petter Miller, Partner and Co-Founder at Palette Architecture NYC, 314-482-3950, peter@palettearch.com Jeff Wandersman, Partner and Co-Founder at Palette Architecture NYC, 803-7436695, jeff@palettearch.com Sergio Rebelo, Partner and Head of Design, FR-EE Architects NYC, 212-242-3104, sr@ fr-ee.org Jue Wang, Architectural Designer, Di Domenico & Partners NYC, 917-825-0306, jw@ ddp-ny.com
Academic References Juan Coll-Barreu, Founder Coll-Barreu Arquetectos, Professor of Architecture at NCSU, jcollba@ncus.edu Dr. Wayne Place, Professor and Author, Architectural Structures, NCSU and UNC. 919-515-8354, wayne_place@ncsu.edu Sara Queen, Professor of Architecture; NCSU, 828-400-6178, sara_queen@ncsu.edu George Hallowell, PhD, AIA, and assistant Professor of Architect, george_hallowell@
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Software Used:
Big Ideas Small Lots
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Wolf Pack Shack
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Revit
FR-EE Mixed Use Tower
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The City of Charleston Study
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CAD
J Train NYC- Station Renewals 12
The Carpenter Center Study
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Rhino
HUB Central Tall Building
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Couple and Stretch Forms
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SketchUp
The Raleigh Sky Gardens
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Perch and Prana Yoga Studio
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PhotoShop
The Dogwood P. A.C.
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Adobe Illustrator
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Matus Ferguson: Table of Contents
PROJECTS:
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BIG IDEAS SMALL LOTS COMPETITION PALETTE ARCHITECTURE NYC
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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER
*Images Courtesy of Palette not for reproduction
FALL, 2019 It was a honor to be a core member of this award winning design team. The competition, organized by NYC Housing and Preservation Development (HPD) and AIA-NY sought to re-imagine the way small lots can be used for much need affordable housing in NYC. The lots are “left over” spaces that are results of zoning oddities. The challenge was to find an innovative response that is appropriate, affordable, and inspiring. The “Less with More” entry from Palette is based of a two part response that incorporates both a prefabricated core with co-living spaces. ROLE: As a designer, my role included drafting the central model in Revit, exploring floor plan and core layouts, creating base views for front and sectional renderings, populating interior furniture, and modeling/rendering the exploded technical axons. I also advocated heavily for the co-living aspect of the project and for the “internal street” atmosphere created by the semi private balconies. In this link, Q&A interview with Resource Furniture you can lean more about my co-living experience at Alta, LIC.
*A clipping from the Wall Street Journal, showcasing our design as 1 of 5 finalist.
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MORE WITH LESS Small-sites are an overlooked opportunity for affordable development. By leveraging both large-scale construction practices and opportunities inherent in small scale construction across multiple sites, we can provide a new and innovative model for affordable housing, while designing a better experience for the inhabitants.
MORE WITH LESS Small-sites are an overlooked opportunity for affordable development. By leveraging both large-scale construction practices and opportunities inherent in small scale construction across multiple sites, we can provide a new and innovative model for affordable housing, while designing a better experience for the inhabitants.
3 2 MORE LIVABLE Life in affordable housing can be a constricting experience. Tenants live in boxes -- partitioned to fit a predetermined set of furniture in a single configuration. Our proposal provides residents with a generous, unpartitioned living quarters; a blank slate for tenants to furnish to fit to their unique needs (sleeping, living, work, children, etc.). Shared resources, such as group rooms, kitchen and dining, and exterior spaces provide more options and opportunities for customization than a typical affordable housing project.
1 Roof top landscaping plan with southeastern native and drought resistant plants
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MORE ECONOMICAL These small sites should benefit from the techniques used on larger housing projects by using identical, pre-fabricated modules across multiple lots. The construction would also leverage the unique advantages of small sites. Small buildings do not require major infrastructure, construction equipment, or building systems. After the cores are installed, the remaining construction is relatively simple which expands the universe of potential contractors.
TECHNICAL AXON KEY 1. 6� crushed gravel drainage layer 2. Rigid slab insulation 3. Slab on grade 4. Luxury vinyl tile 5. Steel framed prefab core 6. Factory installed plumbing fixtures 7. Factory installed tile finish 8. Factory installed wall studs 9. Factory installed plumbing and waste lines 10. Factory installed HVAC lines 11. Steel stair and rail 12. Steel tabs for rail support 13. Open web joists 14. Masonry walls w/ beam pockets 15. Mineral wool wall insulation 16. Energy efficient uPVC windows 17. GFRC wall panels
Sustainability Features A Natural Ventilation B Shading Overhangs C. Operable Skylights D. Indoor / Outdoor Planters
Big Ideas Small Lots , Palette Architecture
Common Spaces 1 Group Flex Space 2. Exterior recreational Spaces 3. Cooking and Dining 4 Atrium and Terraces
MORE COMMUNITY Affordable housing in NYC often sacrifices public space to maintain budgets. Tenants are isolated within individual dwellings with little incentive to use the modest common areas. The Co-living configuration proposed for these small sites offer more opportunities for public and semi-public spaces. With smaller residential communities, there is a possibility for more interaction and greater agency for each resident over the use of common space.
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FR-EE NYC *Images Property of FR-EE
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Fernando Romero EnterprisE
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Architectural Intern Fall, 2018 FR-EE is a global architecture and industrial design firm founded by Fernando Romero. The firm is an active agent in the reconfiguration of site and public space, FR-EE’s commitment to translating historic, social, economic and environmental contexts into contemporary urban destinations has gained critical praise and garnered international level projects around the world. During my internship I had the honor of working on a mixed use tower project in Mexico City. During my internship I worked in the S.D. and D.D. phase including facade development, layout of the observatory, column and mullion design, and physical representation through modeling.
Ground Level
Sky Lobby
Observatory
Corrugation
Cactus
Arched Offset
Role: Designing iterations of the fitting system through the use of Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop. The goal being to create a more monolithic facade to express the buildings form while not obstructing interior views.
Mixed Use Tower, FR-EE NYC Insternship
FACADE
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COLUMNS & MULLIONS Role: To work with project leaders to developed and draft profile iterations that follow the graceful curves the Parti and to update detail drawings and plans for D.D. reviews.
*1:200 Model in collaboration with My Ting not for reproduction
TOWER MODELING Role: To at a number of scales- 1:100, 1:200, and 1:500 Meters working in teams of two. My role was to focus on modeling the columns at both the 1:100 and 1:200 scales models. The geometry is based on a parametric grasshopper definition. After several studies we decided that laser cut, bent chip board and CNC routed blue foam was the best approach. The blue foam was flexible enough to use for both 28 and 24 column iterations. *1:200 Model in collaboration with My Ting
OBSERVATORY
COLUMNS
Following Core
Column Perimeter
Role: To create physical representations for client meetings of the columns, base, and full tower at varrying scales through the use of Laser Cutting, CNC routing, and traditional model making.
Mixed Use Tower, FR-EE NYC Insternship
Columns to Core
Role: To create ramp lay out iterations for the 62nd story observation level that will be open to the public. To study overhead clearance and slopes in both 2D CAD drawingsand 3D Models.
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DDP an interdisciplinary studio to provide services in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design that focuses on public transportation. As a Junior Designer I was responsible for setting up the base CAD drawings of four MTA station on the J line: Woodhaven, Elderts Lane, Forest Parkway, and Cypress Hills. From these bases drawings we created the annotated plans section and elevations for both demo and construction phases. In total, I was responsible for 120 architectural sheets. It was an amazing learning experience which greatly increased my knowledge CAD drafting, creating dynamic blocks, and setting up architectural sheet.
Di Domenico and Partners NYC Junior Architectural Designer Jamaica Line Station Renewals in Collaboration with Jue Wang
Bench and Help Point Components
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Revit Station Model
Jamaica Line Station Renewals: DDP Studio NYC
BIM Modeling: Independently executed a BIM model of the train station using Revit based on DGNs from the engineers. The goal was to create components that are duplicated throughout stations such as beacon equipment and furniture, thus creating faster and more accurate plans, sections, and elevations.
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HUB CENTRAL SAN FRAN Tall Building Studio
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Fall, 2016 Sponsored by S.O.M. Co-design with Yuji Coy
In partnership with Skidmore Owings and Merrill’s San Francisco this studio aims to design a tower that enhances the urban fabric and the rapidly growing tech zone at the intersection of Van Ness and Market Street. The quality of life for the occupants, energy and material efficiency, and urban space planning are driving design goals. Vertical and horizontal circulation, interior illumination, structural systems, and passive heating and cooling are also addressed. Our design takes inspiration cable car systems of the city, creating a diagrid stricture which use both tension and compression members.
HUB Central is an integrated living experience with a transit connection to BART and adaptable facade that creates a thermal comfort zone within the diagrid structure. A new beacon and landmark of the flourishing Tech sector and Van Ness and Market streets.
Compression Member
Tension Member
SITE / First Floor Plan
Structure
Form Iteration Selection
Facade with Shading
Tall Building Studio with S.O.M.
Core Section
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The double facade provides ventilation in the summer and an extra thermal barrier during the winter. It also provides shelter from the wind which can be brisk from the West face in this area of San Fran. The facade morphs into a canopy to shed down wind created by the tower and create a comfortable environment at street level.
Sections of the building displaying the secondary grid being pulled in to create an interstitial space where occupants can enjoy an indoor/outdoor environment with planted patios. This alternation allows for 5 variations of floor plates and plans, thus creating of option for occupants.
Tall Building Studio with S.O.M.
EAST 3:00PM
NORTH 10:00AM
SOUTH 5:00PM
EAST 3:00PM
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RALEIGH SKY GARDENS Native Plants Garden and Housing Comprehensive Studio Spring, 2016
The Raleigh Sky Gardens is an adaptive reuse project that reaches out to the city center to draw in the pedestrian. It is the old and the new, persevering the historical exterior walls and inserting new steel walls to create a pedestrian ramp. This undulating green roof also blankets high-tech 21st century office space below. There are two residential, cooperative living units for visiting horticulturists and botanists. The gardens are comprised of South Eastern native and drought resistant plantings recommended in collaboration with Allen Johnson landscaping with whom I spent one summer working under.
New Undulating Green Roof
Original Steel
New Steel Wall
Original Brick
Raleigh Sky Gardens, Comprehensive Studio
Roof top landscaping plan with southeastern native and drought resistant plants
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Raleigh Sky Gardens, Comprehensive Studio
Biologist and worker housing with public and private courtyard
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THE DOGWOOD PREFORMING ARTS CENTER Systems Technology Studio Fall, 2015
The Dogwood Preforming Arts center is to be a new jewel box of performance art in Raleigh, the capitol of N.C. The program includes a main performance hall, a dance studio, a black box theatre, an administration wing, and a grand lobby with the capability of generating multiple revenues. Special attention is paid to sound isolation, stage acoustics, equal accessibility, and HVAC mechanical systems, as required for the Architectural Technology 403 studio. HIERARCHY
STRUCTURE
HVAC
The layout is based on the state flower and creates a centrally located lobby. Petals are divided by program; performance hall, black box theater and dance school, and administration. The fourth petal is reserved for an amphitheater to address the street and create a public space.
The Dogwood Preforming Arts Center
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CIRCULATION
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In-Situ Concrete Walls
North Elevation
Performance Wing
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STONE LINE CIDERY Pre-Cast Concrete Studio
Matus Ferguson, NCSU Master of Architecture
Spring, 2017 In Collaboration with NCSU Engineering Sponsored by P.C.I. In partnership with the Pre-Cast Institute of America the goals is to design a project to be erected with pre-cast concrete as the primary component and to use parametric aided design. Engineering students partnered with architecture students to collaborate on design and create structural drawings.
TO SPLICE
Nestled in the Catskills Mountains of New York, Stone Line Cidery is a boutique hard cider producer that specializes in estate grown, heirloom varieties. These cider specific variates are grafted onto dwarf root stock to create a high density orchard that are trellised and maintained much like a winery. During my visit to the site it became apparent that my planning goal was to splice together these two amazing orchard and draw the visitor deep into the site while respecting work-flows. A special thanks to owners, craftsman, and farmers David and Melissa Whitman.
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ORCHARD GROUNDS
TRACTOR WAYS
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BRIDGE INSERTION
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The covered bridges of Delaware County serve as vernacular inspiration for its pure form and horizontal. The production half of the cidery is below grade while the event and tasting rise the historic stonewall and to capture westerly sunset views.
Stoneline Cidery, Pre-Cast Concrete Studio
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WOLF PACK SHACK
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Design Build Studio Summer, 2017 in Collaboration with Jacob Fremderman and Kelsey Morrison
ADAPTIVE TRUSS REVIT COMPONENT: Modeled by Matus in order to quickly study the truss and king post in relation to the roof forms.
The Wolf Pack Shack is a first round submittal to the N.C. State’s Harvest Barn Competition for the Agroecology campus. For the first phase of the design competition we separated into 5 groups. My team designed a space to include a vegetable processing area, event space, walk in coolers, green wall, and rain water collection system. I l was the lead designer working to incorporate the existing shed into the project and create an modern roof line with agriculture vernacular inspiration. I also led all Revit Modeling, BIM component creation, and rendering for the phase one team. Roof Line Iterations with Adaptive Truss
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Inverted
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Butterfly 1
H2O
Butterfly 2
Classic overhang
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Phase Two: The client selected a similar yet more traditional design form team Farm Focus (rendering seen on far right). The class then separated into design development teams to complete the project.
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FRAMING DETAIL SECTION STORAGE 3/4" = 1'-0"
FRAMING DETAIL SECTION FULL PANEL
I was on the construction document team and drew this sheet with wall section and slab details. I was also responsible for the site plan, roofing plan, and gutter details.
3/4" = 1'-0"
PANEL CONNECTION DETAIL
PANEL BRACE DETAIL
FRAMING PLAN DETAIL
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3/4" = 1'-0"
The finished project expresses vernacular elements such as a large overhang, reclaimed wood, and water catchment as requested by the client. The vegetable washing and packing line is to remain open and flexible while doubling as a pavilion for events such as farm to fork dinners.
Agroecology Harvest Barn: NCSU Design Build
Agroecology Harvest Barn NCSU Design Build Summer 2017
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CITY OF CHARLESTON
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HIERARCHY STUDY Design Fundamentals Studio Fall, 2014
In this 403 design fundamentals course I focused on the city of Charleston to investigate the figure ground and context of architecture at a city scale, precinct scale, and the scale of a specific site. Displayed on this page are the models and maps that synthesize the passage, place, and periods of Charleston’s historical peninsula and City Market. I produced these city models with a partenr. This began a great creative partnership that has continued through the program.
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THE CARPENTER CENTER CASE STUDY Design Fundamentals Form Spring, 2015
In this studio we were given a precedent site to analyze, diagram, and model the formal elements of its form. I choose the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts by Le Corbusier. Major themes that I chose to diagram and model are the circulation, structure to enclose, public to private space, and the structural gird. Le Corbusier’s approach to centralized circulation has become integrated into my own work.
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COUPLE AND STRETCH
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TWO WORDS STUDY Design Fundamentals Form Spring, 2015
In this section of the 403 studio I chose two architectural vocabulary words for the purpose of diagramming and modeled them as a series of forms and relationships to create a public space. I chose the words coupled and stretched. I was interested in the dichotomy of these two words in regards to their interactive play of tension and compression. To conclude the study we were asked to create diagrams based on the final model that could be a pubic space, such as a museum or office.
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Systems Technology Studio Fall, 2015
The Perch and Prana, an Ashtanga Yoga studio and retreat is a project based on a personal pastime. The concept is based off ideas of yoga and anthropomorphism that have been incubating in my head during the last five years of yoga practice. It thus provides a great opportunity to articulate my yogi knowledge with architecture. As represented in the diagram on the upper left, the Ashtanga Series starts with an empty breath and as you transition into the next posture you inhale (arms overhead). The result is a releasing of old negative energy and breathing in fresh new energy, or “Prana.� Each pose follows this inhale/ exhale sequence. The A-B-A-B pattern continues through the whole practice and here it becomes an integral part of the parti.
The arrangement of the structures is symmetrical and balanced, representative of yoga mantras. Setting the plan at 45 degrees helps to align to the high altitude, temperate site to the south while still protecting the practitioner from beam sunlight. This is done by a combination of walls and half walls that face the east in the bedroom and the west in the kitchen wing.
Perch and Prana, Yoga Retreat
The circulation plan, which centers around a garden and offers views towards the mountains, is based on the A-B-A-B pattern of inhales and exhales. The inhales are represented by the interior spaces and the exhales, a sense of release, are represented by the outside space and plankways. As you travel through this sequenced space, it is the yoga platform that breaks the pattern and through emptiness creates a hierarchy of space, insular yet exposed.
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