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Graduate and Undergraduate Portfolio
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Matthew A Bardon
To Whom it May Concern.
As you are reading this, I would like to thank you for taking the time to look at this portfolio. My education has not simply been about showing up to studio or completing projects, my architectural education has evolved into an obsession. The work exhibited is meant to display my ability with software as well as a design process that always begins with sketching. I am an active learner and a collaborative leader: I listen to those around me and actively participate in problem solving. Thank you for listening, and enjoy this collection of architectural projects and art.
Kind Regards,
-Matthew Bardon
Steam Bending Page 14-17
Modular Units Page 18,19
Breaking the Stigma Page 3
Art Gallery Page 4-7
Inclined Planes Page 1,2
Art Page 20,21
Urban Habitat Page 10-13
Lounge-scape Page 8,9
The process of documenting and researching the typology of the urban fabric inspired us to develop an urban intervention that would facilitate a connection between the Seattle Center and Uptown. By using these inclines planes and taking advantage of the natural slope, we were able to create a new template for the urban campus.
Seattle, WAThe Uptown and Seattle Center Connection as a Pedestrian Typology
35’ 47’
94’
Inclined Planes:STEM University Commercial Hub
Seattle, WAGraduate Studio 2014
Professor: Matt CohenGroup Members: Matthew
Bardon, Xixi He, and Jose Hurtado
Our goal was as follows: to create a pedestrian-focused urban campus through a mixed use STEM university that focuses on walkability, in particular exploring ways in which the natural slope of the site can facilitate movement through multiple levels along a network of inclined planes. These inclined planes were born out of research of various street typologies. Working with VIA Architects in Seattle as well as our professor, this project creates a connection with the surrounding neighborhood of Uptown as the bridge to the Seattle Center.
Commercial
STEM
The homeless on the streets are stigmatized and marginalized on the streets of Seattle. Homelessness is a part of the human condition often documented by artists and put into exhibitions. This romanticism is enjoyed within the art gallery or museum, but once the audience leaves they are no more in touch with the real homeless on the streets. This piece of infrastructure attempts to connect with the homeless, by giving them a means to display and potentially sell their artwork on the street.
Breaking the Stigma:Artistic ExpressionGraduate Summer Studio
Coordinators: Rex Holbein and Tom Maul
24”80”
1/2”Bent Steel
Connections:Artistic Invitation between exhibition space
The connection between these galleries are based on a rotational geometric algorithm that uses hyperbolic surfaces. These connections open the space of the gallery to provide an open feeling to the space, as well as a dynamic lighting condition. This project invites the viewer to move from gallery to gallery seamlessly in order to have access to the entire exhibition.
Art Gallery:4 Galleries, One Space
Seattle, WA4th Year Studio
Professor: Arash Adel
This Project was designed for a site owned by the city, mostly used as a gravel parking lot. The lot has two beautiful trees that provide a shading canopy during the summer. Every Sunday in this neighborhood there is an art-walk where people sell crafts on the street. An art gallery on this street would function as a permanent headquarters for this social atmosphere. The area of the galleries total 3000 square feet, and by lifting up one of the galleries and recessing the ground, an outdoor gallery is added. These four galleries promote a social atmosphere already occurring in the neighborhood.
Trees Dictate Form Form Adapts
Windows: Isocurves in y/x direction
Stairs: Isocurves in z direction
Material Specifi city: Dichotomy
Computational Design Seminar Spring 2014
Research Group: Matthew Bardon, Faramarz Manteghi, Li
Tianze, Teal Delys, and Evan Yock.
Coordinator: Chris Massicampo
This design is a part of a graduate research group involving parametric design and material specifi city. This is currently an ongoing project that explores the possibility of uniting two materials, one providing structural stiffness, and the other providing comfort for the seating area. The design is based on a range of seating positions from upright to laying down. The form was created within rhino and grasshopper based on these performance metrics. With this in mind, the wood and a neoprene would be cut to accommodate for this range of motion. This project is ongoing as we continue to craft a cost effective method of creating this lounge-scape.
Urban Habitat:Self-Sustaining High-Rise
This tower incorporates urban farming that provides a commercial base for the building upon which the residential tower sits. The large hanging cantilevered platforms that hang out into the city are intended to provide public spaces for the residents. This project was designed using many iterations of physical models to create a template for a new type of residential tower.
Urban Habitat:Vertical Suburbs
Sand Francisco, CA3rd Year Studio
Professor: Anna Mutin
This project was selected as one of the projects to present for the accreditation of Washington State University. The entire tower is tilted towards the south providing sunlight to the large cantilevered public spaces that project into the city. Since the site is on a slight slope, the two ground floors create access to the commercial base from opposite sides of the site. The section to the far right shows the separation of program vertically from a public base into more private areas, and ending with a public park at the top in lieu of a penthouse. This building shapes a template for a new type of mixed-use development that can accommodate for urban life.
210 Folsom st
Viewing Area
Single Story Condos
Houses in the Sky
Studio Apartments
Urban Farming/Offices
Commercial
Parametric Design: Steam Bending
Computational Design Seminar Spring 2014
Research Group: Matthew Bardon, Artem Vinnikov, and
Alex Scofi eldCoordinator: Arash Adel
This Project aimed to create a Parametric family of wall systems providing seating based on the material specifi city of wood. Experimenting with a variety of different steam bent woods, we settled on creating the fi nal form with white ash. The parametric defi nition was built in grasshopper to explore a family of forms. This was based on a vertical expression of sinusoidal curves, and two vertical rails. The exploration yielded a wide matrix of possibilities exhibited to the right.
h=15” Laying Surface
Surface Tests
h=24” Sitting Surface
The form of this project was inspired through the intersection of spheres. Critically thinking about the geometry of a paneling system, I explored a multitude of different forms. After this exploration I deduced that it would be interesting to build a modular system that could be digitally fabricated from one single sheet. A simple modular unit is able to give rise to a complex and variable form. Simplicity and complexity are often opponents, this project unites the two using geometry.
Geometric Study: Paneling ToolsModular Units
Computational Design Seminar Fall 2015Coordinator: Chris Massicampo
Point AttractorBoolean Operation
FabricationPaneling System
About MeMy life living, and moving all over the world has given me a great appreciation for architecture. Traveling, along with my graduate level education at Washington State University, has given me a broad education. From this global education came a passion with something that can connect us all: architecture. My interest in Architecture has continued to fuel my passion for travel, as well as art. I have been drawing and painting since before I can remember, I am passionate about digital design, but I hold an artistic conceptualization process that helps me realize my projects.
Art: Drawing & Painting
Traveling gives me a distinct urge to pull out a sketchbook or start a painting. When one draws a scene, or a person, one begins to understand the negative and positive space in a scene. A drawing is like a journal entry, something both personal and expressive.