Architecture Portfolio - Graduate by Peter Matheson

Peter Matheson Architectural Portfolio M.Arch 2020 UMN B.S. Arch. 2016 UMN

Contents Timber Innovation Center - 2 St John Sustainable Housing - 10 Bamboo Research Center - 18 Rural Food Systems - 26 (MFP) Pond Project - 36 Skyway Reclad - 44 Sketching Abroad - 46

Site

2 Dultuh Timber Institute

Timber Innovation Center Duluth, MN Fall 2018 - 10 weeks Sustainable technologies like mass timber have the potential to replace our current energy- and carbon-intensive building materials like concrete and steel. In order to promote and reinvigorate the wood industry in Minnesota, this studio project proposes building a Wood Innovation and Research Center (WIRC) in downtown Duluth, Minnesota at the foot of the North Woods. My project strives to incorporate innate qualities of wood including its structural capabilities, burnable phenomena, texture and feel, pliability, and visual aesthetic. The WIRC is shaped by a pedestrian path at ground level and grows around an over-sized chimney atop massive wood-burning kilns. The exterior of the WIRC at street level is designed to encourage pedestrian passersby to watch activity in the Innovation Lab on the ground floor. Studios for architecture students at the UMD are plaired with office space to promote cross-disciplinary interaction.

study models < 1/32” = 1’-0” 1/50” = 1’-0” final model > nw elevation 3/32” = 1’-0” 4 Dultuh Timber Institute

PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE / RITUAL 00 22

00 18

00 14

KILN TEMP FAHRENHEIT

1800

Pottery - Green firing

+ 2500

20 0

Pottery - Glaze firing

- 2500

Cooldown. waste heat used in hydronic in-floor heating throughout buiklding

- 1000

Burn waste wood and wood products / experiments

451

Paper products allowed in kiln

+ 300

Cooking and baking classes

250

Dry laundry

240

Kiln drying lumber: Softwoods

212

104,000

Steam bending wood classes and expiriments

Iron Range Depleted

212

98,000

Great Depression

100,000

Steel Crisis

Cooking classes end

175

Kiln drying lumber: Hardwoods

133

Heat-treat Lumber

130

End of Sauna Season

Hot Yoga Classes in Kiln

Annual cleaning

Community Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bass Choir Perfoormances

+ 65

Ignition Ceremony / Festival

3,000

Iron Ore Dock

ER NT WI MER M SU

2,500

Last Timber

ER NT WI MER M SU

6 Dultuh Timber Institute

< building section a looking southwest w/ kiln schedule

1’ 6" 1’ 10"

> detail axon 2’

> physical model 1/4” = 1’-0”

BATH

OPEN TO LAB BELOW

OPEN TO BELOW

TO LAKE PLACE PARK

UP 20 R

DN 20 R

OFFICE

RETAIL

SUPERIOR ST.

ELEV ELEV

BATH

> site plan se exterior

PUBLIC PARK / LAKE ACCESS

LAKE WALK

25’

building section b < looking se facade slice < looking nw renderings > se exterior lobby kiln + shop west facade

8 Dultuh Timber Institute

Net Positive Studio The Made and the Born: Adaptation, Flux and Housing Spring 2019 - 7 weeks Hurricane Irma hit the U.S. Virgin Islands in September of 2017, damaging hundreds of homes and leaving many permanent residents without shelter. Split as they were between hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, FEMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disaster relief efforts were lackluster and ineffective, leaving many families on St. John island in makeshift shelters for months after the storm. To combat this new housing crisis the Virgin Islands Housing Authority gave a non-profit called the Love City Foundation permission and funding to build affordable housing on a 2.6-acre site on the western half of the island, immediately adjacent to Bethany church. In planning the new development, the foundation connected with the University of Minnesota and agreed to review any student design proposals that dealt with the site. We were tasked with developing a master plan for the site that provides at least 22 dwelling units for seniors, young families and service workers, complies with the current zoning codes, and follows several of the petals of the Living Community Challenge.

St. John Housing 11

Bethany Church Built 1754 New Parking 16 spots

Existing Parking For Church

Solar Panels 5,700 SF

Community Farm 28,800 SF

Focus Building 4 Units

Amphitheater ADA Ramp Community Farm 28,800 SF

100 Feet

RAI

NW ATE R

FOOD SCRAPS

FARM

FERTILIZER

SOL

COMPOST DOWNWIND

EAST LAR

WIND

SOLAR

CISTERN

RAMP / AMPHITHEATER

IRRIGATION FERTILIZER

FARM

One-Bedroom (4) Young Professional One-Bedroom (10) Elderly Couple Three-Bedroom (6) Young Family Community Center Daycare / Classroom Storm Shelter Waste Collection

> site diagram systems map unit types / topo existing vegetation < site plan 2.67 acres St. John Housing 13

REAR WALK

LIGHT WELL

KITCHEN

BATH

DN 17 R

LIVE / DINE

BATH

BEDROOM

LIVE / DINE

KITCHEN

PATIO

4’ LIGHT WELL

8’

16’

LIGHT WELL

KITCHEN

CISTERN 270 SF

BATH

BEDROOM

BATH LIVE / DINE

BEDROOM

ENTRY

UP 17 R

LIVE / DINE

KITCHEN

floor plans < upper level ground floor north elevations > summer day stormy night

St. John Housing 15

Section Perspective A

> rendered section human scaled street < systems section ventilation water solar St. John Housing 17

STRAI GHT S TREET

B BUS STOP

BIKE HUB

NEW BAMBOO GROVE

CHINESE ACADEMY OF ARTS C

UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE 18 Bamboo Research Center

AIR PO RT ROAD

ENTRY

Bamboo Processing & Exhibition Center Hangzhou, China Spring 2019 Dzenita Hadziomerovic Our studio was tasked with choosing a site and designing an institute for promoting a chosen construction material. I chose to build in Hangzhou, a rapidly expanding city in Eastern China surrounded by three of China’s highest bamboo-producing counties. The building is sited in between the agriculture and architecture departments at the Chinese Academy of Arts in Hangzhou. This project seeks to elevate public perception of bamboo, commonly refered to as the ‘poor man’s lumber’, by demonstrating its natural beauty, structural capabilities, and myriad applications within a built structure. Through the center’s bamboo grove, drying ramps, workshop / classroom, and gallery visitors engage with the entire bamboo production process, gaining understanding and appreciation for the material. By partnering with both the architecture and agriculture departments at the nearby Chinese Academy of Arts, the center can maximize its impact on future generations of designers and growers through design / build programs and bamboo testing groves planted around the site. < site plan yangzhou, china > study model 1/16” = 1’-0”

process work < treetop aerials elevation treetop view site model floor plans > ground floor third floor typical floor fifth floor rendered elevation > looking west

20 Bamboo Research Center

renderings entry ramp drying rack lobby

< a b c

parti diagram > massing sequence axon slice > drying rack structure

22 Bamboo Research Center

section model < 3/8” = 1’-0” building section > annotated

24 Bamboo Research Center

POLYCARBONATE RAINSCREEN OPERABLE TRANSPARENT TRANSLUCENT BAMBOO STRUCTURE W/ STEEL JOINTS EVERY 24’ 12” DIA. PRIMARY 6” DIA. SECONDARY DRYER RAMPS WOVEN MAT OVER 2-PLY 3/4” CROSS-BAM SUBFLOOR 2” DIA. BAMBOO CANES 6” O.C. 8” DIA. CANES DRYING 18” O.C. 12” DEEP BAMBOO TRUSS 18” O.C. BAMBOO GROVE 100’ TALL GUADUA,MOSO, ETC. CLUMPING AND RUNNING SPECIES HORTICULTURAL TESTING FIELD LATERAL STRUCTURE 8” DIA. BAMBOO CROSSBRACING 8” THICK CROSS-BAM PANELS MAKE UP ELEV. CORE

austin kitchen 1 sterling mall site happy little plant 2 bellisio foods site quality pork processors 3 current hormel pork packing plant 1 mile 26 Austin Food Systems

Rethinking Rural Food Systems Austin, Minnesota Fall 2019 Jacob Mans Working in small groups, our studio was tasked with finding and mapping challenges and assets within the city of Austin, a city with nearly 30,000 residents. We then chose two sites and developed two projects based on our findings. Our first project, Austin Kitchen, is a proposed urban farm, locally sourced grocery store, community kitchen, restaurant, and educational resource seeking to model a resilient and productive future for Austin and Mower County by alleviating local food deserts, attracting tourism, improving regional water quality, and generating local economic activity. Our second project, Happy Little Plant, replaces a currently vacant shopping mall on the Cedar River with a new plantbased meat production facility and food science lab for Hormel, and a culinary incubator and restaurant for residents and tourists. The design seeks to flip traditional industrial food production on its head by connecting pedestrians to the riverfront, using transparency to invite and educate visitors, and providing rentable kitchen space where local food entrepreneurs can cook, serve, teach, and learn from on-site food scientists working on Happy Little Plantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next products.

> first floor plan > building section looking north

14th St SW

< site plan initial collage > entry render looking se

MOWER COUNTY FARM HARVEST

AUSTIN KITCHEN GROCERY

28 Austin Food Systems

CAFE

INDOOR HARVEST

SOY PRODUCTS

FOOD + BEER

PRODUCE

OUTDOOR HARVEST

KITCHEN

WAREHOUSE

PRODUCTION

GREEN HOUSE

25â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

KITCHENS

FOOD HALL

PATIO

rendered section looking west

30 Austin Food Systems

reclaimed silo staves

public circulation

steel structure

farmers market

urban farm school

rainwater collection

natural daylighting

factory viewing

soy products lab

parking / reservoir

50â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

COURTYARD

STORAGE

PACKAGING

SOY BIN

OFFICE

LOBBY

UNLOADING

PRODUCTION F

VISITOR HALL SOY BIN

VISITOR ENTRY

SPIRAL FREEZER

HORMEL FACTORY

Why Plant Based?

2,520 gallons 2,520 gallons of water of water 113 sf farmland https://www.sustain.ucla.edu/our-initiatives/food-systems/the-case-for-plant-based/

480 gallons 480 gallons of water of water 4 sf farmland

first floor plan < visitor / product west elevation <

INDUSTRY - RIVERFRONT - COMMU-

hormel products < visitor entrance > looking east 32 Austin Food Systems

CE DA RR I VE

PARKING

RIVER PATIO

UP TO KITCHEN

HAPPY LITTLE PLANT

LOADING DOCK

FOOD LAB + KITCHEN + PARKING

EARTHEN LEVY

CEDAR RIVER

rendered section < looking north courtyard entry < looking west physical model > 3/8” = 1’-0” 34 Austin Food Systems

36 Pond Project

Pond Project Cass County, Minnesota Spring 2020 In-Progress Mary Springer Penny Pond, a five-acre wetland just north of Lake Wabedo, is surrounded by gravel pits, white-tail deer and black bear populations, resident / vacationer social dynamics and land use dichotomies, and 250,000 acres county-managed Aspen forests destined to become pulp and eventually paper. The pond is neglected, unused by the owners and untouched by humans for nearly 60 years. This project seeks to create an architecture that allows visitors to engage with and experience the pond in ways they otherwise would not, and explores how architecture can influence and be influence by surrounding industries and land uses.

< process rendering looking north > lake wabedo 1939 aerial

wabedo timber thorburn property conservation easement state forest timber tract / stand aspen / birch conifer 1/2 mile

38 Pond Project

< lake wabedo map county forest tracts > contemporary logging january 2020 cass county > property axon 11 acres 300â&#x20AC;&#x2122; to bedrock

mn land types 54 million acres total

reserved forest

mn timberland ownership 16 million acres total

industry federal

timberland

county

mn species 2016

red pine white-cedar birch

lowland and hardwoods

cass county taxpayer

other state

out of state

cass county land types 1,544,960 acres total

developed other agriculture

rest of mn

tamarack water

open water

northern thern hardwoods oak

state

cass county ownership 1,500,000 acres total

black spruce

county

t.c. c. metro me

cass species 183,956 harvestable acres

county forest acres sold 3206 acres sold in 2018

white cedar jjackk pine p tamarack ash h paper birch red pine northern hardwoods oak other

balsam fir ash h other jack pine paper birch bi

aspen

red pine oak northern hardwoods

wetland

federal

other

non-forest

private

aspen

private

within cass county

forest

forester

Land owner

purchase

logger

species

mill

product 1

product 2

industry swcd consult. county mndnr

family industry county state federal

contract auction reg. auction int.

small < 20 large > 20 mill

cedar. red cedar. white fir. balsam pine. jack pine. red pine. white spruce. blk spruce. wht tamarack

kiln pallet pellet pulp saw saw. mbl. shaving veneer biomass

box / crate cants chips cut stock energy fencing flooring fuelwood lath log. log. home log. siding lumber. green lmbr. air dry lmbr. kiln dry lmbr. dressed lmbr. treated moulding mulch pallet. parts pallet. whole paneling pellets poles / pilings posts pulp tie. landscape tie. railroad sawdust shims shingles siding stakes staves veneer. sheet veneer. log

blinds / shutters biscuits cabinetry countertop doors. passage doors. garage dowels engineered. beam / post engineered. i-joist engineered. sheathing flooring furniture lumber. dimensional lumber. finger joint moulding pallet. whole paper. board paper. card paper. fine paper. news paper. print paper. tissue prefab structures siding signage toys tumbour veneer windows

ash. black ash. grn/wht aspen basswood birch. paper birch. yellow boxelder butternut cherry cottonwood elm hackberry hickory poplar maple. hard maple. soft oak. bur oak. red oak. white walnut willow

mn forest industry < ownership + supply chain wabedo life-log > ownership / land use penny pond < june / january

40 Pond Project

ownership 1,000,000

land use

biomass

tree lifespan

glacial period lake formation

16,000

non-humans plant / animal species

10,000

indiginous peoples

nomadic occupation source of food, building materials, other resources

indiginous peoples dakota / sioux

1600

indiginous peoples ojibwe, chippewa, Anishinabe

1700

french presence traders, trappers, explorers

1800

1803 lousiana purchase

white pine

1000

aspen

0 CE

1830 indian removal act us 1855 land cession #357 1858 minesota statehood

1900

1862 homestead act pine tree lumber company 189? clear cut old growth 1920-30 abandoned surrounding forest land tax-forfeited, managed by county sandberg or green family 19?? mpls millers baseball playerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hunting cabin

logging clear cut old growth recreation summer cabin

thorburn family 1948 three generations 2000 land trust conservation easement

mixed use recreation forestry education

2100

Pond Project 41

42 Pond Project

study models < hovering egg-crate guest cabin > pond walk vertical ice box

Pond Project 43

Skyway Reclad prof. alex terzich fall 2019 skyway reclad 1 < existing elevation reclad elevation wall section plan detail skyway reclad 2 > existing elevation rendered sections rendered elevation interior elevation