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[ matthew buyer ] _bachelor of architecture 2006 - 10 bowling green state university _master of architecture 2010 - present pratt institute

_As a fresh designer, I grow with my work, beginning with a critical understanding of what generative mechanics for engagement can be defined with analytical architectural interventions. I strive to work in a fast, nimble environment as a production technique to eventually develop an integrated architectural language that brings out the individuality of each new project. Moving from and analogical concept to a varied dialect of representation, I aim to provoke the discourse between design and experimental architecture space. I have taken the optimistically naive approach that anything is possible, building investigations upon technique to ultimately create an unsystematic hybrid of learned information and defined relationships, climactically resulting in an intelligent layered field of architectural space.

//.CLOUDlab pre-school location: staten island spring 2011 pratt institute - dynamic systems studio critic: gregory okshteyn

_CLOUDlab was realized as a potential to model the processes and formation of clouds into a new practice for progressive pre-school education. Great research and consideration in the mechanics of clouds drove every aspect of the project, including a structural strategy, program, form, lighting conditions, circulation, and material selections. After understanding the metaphorical context, a digitally composed dynamic system was established with the rules and conditions of clouds programmed into the setup. This model yielded a high generative potential for the project and a means to synthesize a strategy or systematic technique for all architectural operations.

developed structural strategy

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networked cloud system over site

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pressure (hPa)

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classroom

restroom/service restroom

administration

lunch activity spaces

classroom

programmatic system

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combined structural strategy

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gradient of particle density research programmatic lables

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second floor plan

first floor plan

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activity space rendering

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interior atrium rendering

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front perspective rendering

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//.digital media ART-lab location: financial district of new york city fall 2010 pratt institute - formal/informal design studio critic: chris perry

_The project started off as a neutral blank sheet. Then a code was added to this sheet to give it information and to create a greater capacity for a generative potential. A single agent was created with the inscribed information to give the medium specific purposes. The agent follows simple rules to interact and communicate locally with other agents and with its environment. Working between this local scale and a larger composited subsystem, the project established an equilibrium of form giving it a specific dynamic assemblage. Through this adaptive generative potential, specific programmatic systems emerged allowing for a fully integrated structure/program project. The study maintains a notion of integrating a variety of public, informal spaces fully into a more private formal system, blurring the lines between formalities in architecture. The spaces purposely incorporate a highly adaptive public realm on street level and a specific program for a digital media arts residency in the sites lower level, preserving the original site for unrestricted civic purposes.

diagrammatic first floor plan

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perspective rendering of communication subsystem

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linked unit types

folding axis front layering member front notch coupling rear notch coupling connecting pad

extended connecting arm relief cut

rear layering member

radial pivot gauge folding axis connecting pad

physical building model

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Selected Site selected site context

bowling green park, new york city pg. 13

02 digital medial art lab

exploded axo of site

room index

d edia Lab One

edia Lab Two 01. lobby ms 02. courtyard ecture 03. digital media nce lab one 04. digital media lab two air Well 05. restrooms 06. gallery/lecturey Access 07. conference 08. print lab 09. spiral stair well 10. subway access 11. storage

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physical model of lower lever

Developed Public Space The Developed Public Space is derived for the initial architectural unit and maintains a public forum for the exterior of the digital media labs

Underground Structural Support The Underground Structural Support follows the interior diameter of the developed public space and is spacially extraced from the vertictal units provided above

Interior Media Lab Paneling In between the underground structural support, the interior paneling provides a nonstructural privacy screen for the artists from the rest of the digital media center

Integrated Circular Desk Stations Providing a personal space for the digital artist, the fully integrated desk stations accomodated for multiple persons and a variety of computer platforms pg. 15

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developed program schedule pg. 16

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built final model

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//.conjunct pop-culture center location: off campus university of bowling green, ohio spring 2010 bowling green state university - senior exhibit design studio critic: scot macpherson

_During the past few decades, modern technology along with radio, television, internet, and satellites, has woven an intelligent network of popular culture relationships which puts each part of the world into almost instant contact with all other parts. The project explores this concept to translate polyrhythmic relationships directly from the local and expanded urban fringe context. In tracing out several layered iterations of scaled overlays of the site, the project searches for new analogical relationships to eliminate the traditional assumed casual relationships between form and intention while also avoiding limitations of a purely autonomous self-referential procedure of composition. The polyrhythmic composite assembly reveals new informal arrangements that were unnoticeable before. In connecting these generated spatial hubs, the project maintains a notion of an intelligent network of contextual ties where the progression through the relating of arranged spaces illustrates a networked field, suddenly arranging each space in relatively instant contact with all others. The popular culture center directly and actively stimulates its own use as both a museum and as an urban meeting place, consisting of a large plaza and central entry hall that functions as a focal distributive hub to all other museum spaces. Following these distribution conduits, the layered and folded roof structure acts as a connective tissue between every partially and fully enclosed hub.

developed site nodes

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exterior rendering of center

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03 conjunct pop-culture center

first floor

room index 01. lobby 02. center store 03. cafe/catering 04. open theater 05. director offices 06. audio/visual gallery 07. literature gallery 08. restrooms 09. art gallery 10. docking/storage

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second floor

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4 working design steps

developed site plan

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interior gallery and lobby

exterior folding shell

transparent membrane

circulation

floor plates

building systems pg. 22

modeled section

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extieor night rendering

structural/display systems

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//.applied techniques fall 2010 pratt institute, computers and media critic: phil parker, christopher whitelaw, ben martinson

_Photographing a head of lettuce close up, in multiple iterations, the subject can be reassembled to still be notably a head of lettuce. Certain lines and continuations in the layers are broken and overlapped, but the notion of layers is still apparent. Layered on top of the composited images, is transparent mylar illustrating crudely the defragmentation of the once alive organism. Blended amorphous colors and hard lines separate and eventually bleed into one another as to allow the project to establish this notion of a decomposition of the layered parts of the vegetable.

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morphing modular wall, christopher whitelaw design

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04 applied techniques

_Creating a dynamic blending modular unit, a composited form was created to be later used as a piece of a larger whole. Working through an active digital medium the dynamic modular unit allows for an infinite composition of forms in between a base and target modular unit. The project explores the possibilities of applying a reactive thickened surface to a changing wall. Recent digital procedures have facilitated the understanding of such component to whole assemblies but have also allowed for the mutability and fabrication of morphological units. Controlling the morphing processes generated within the individual units, locators used distance parameters to maintain a constant area of deformation within the modulated wall structure. This allows for a responsive and varying composited architectural surface.

attractor point

base module

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target module

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//.additional works fall 2008 - present bowling green state university - macpherson architects - big john studio

pastel of chicago architecture athenaeum

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_Representatives from the Owens Corning Corporation invited a select group of five students from BGSU to compete to design and build a 20’x20’ exhibition booth for the 2009 Green Build Conference in Phoenix Arizona. This project required three phases; designing, presentation, and finally a construction/shipping phase. I personally was heavily involved in all three phases. The main purpose of the booth’s furniture and wall displays were to exhibit and creatively demonstrate Owens Corning new innovative insulation materials. 30,000 visitors came through our booth in its three day time. This was the first time a project of this scale was available to students at BGSU. The success of our exhibition booth initiated a continuing relationship between BGSU and Owens Corning.

owens corning green build booth

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05 additional works

_This model is the final design for the Primary Maumee Valley Country Day School, designed by Machperson architects. Built by myself and one other student (Joshua M. Lohr), the scaled model is constructed using cresent board, wood, and plexi-glass. The school will be opened June 2011.

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_Taking into great consideration a strong set of values, the student unions utilizes an orthogonal interaction between spaces. These overlapping and interacting spaces are modeled as a catalyst for human discourse. This association creates spaces for thinking and debate. Furthermore, the student union is utilizes concepts of humility and prioritization on the individual. Humility is important in an academic institution because it addresses the concept of intrinsic self worth. Following the existing axis and entrance sequences, the unionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s separate spaces are aligned and overlapped. Elegantly the large canopy roof acts as a covered link between all partially and fully enclosed spaces. The journey through these spaces is one of constant contrast and change.

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05 additional works

_Concrete blocks are unconditionally thought of to be very structurally stern, inherently stacked in a networked grid, and substantially solid. The purpose of this project was to hierarchically express the inherent nature of the concrete blocks with an entirely creative approach. Greatly influenced by the methods and nebulous ideas of surrealism, which is to feature the unexpected juxtaposition of customary elements against unconventional and sometimes irrational notions, the concrete block sculpture expresses concepts of fragility, and fluidic dynamism. These characteristics directly contrast the conventional attributes of the concrete block. For the observer of the sculpture to feel this surrealistic experience, the blocks are sensibly organized in contradiction of an orthogonal manner while lightly dancing towards the sky on thin rods of rebar. The emotional response for the viewer is one of contradicting fragility, and wavering dynamism.

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