Matthew Vogel Portfolio 2016

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Matthew Vogel Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Class of 2016 www.mtvarchitecture.com [email protected] 215.378.8949

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Matthew Vogel Portfolio 2016

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Matthew VogelRensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Class of 2016

[email protected]

215.378.8949

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» The Protean BuildingYear 5 Studio Project

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For my fifth year project the studio explored the past and potential relationship between

architecture and erasure.

For my final project I examined the potential of designed erasure. I utilized the theoretical works of Archizoom, the Japanese Metabolists, and Archigram to reevaluate the built environment for a mutable future. The Protean Building reflects these theories by addressing “erasure” as a continuous part of a building’s narrative instead of its end product.

Above: The Venician Pompidou Center Configuration Top ViewBelow: The Venician Pompidou Center Configuration Axon View

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Warren Truss

Truss Bracing (2x scale) Tie Bracing Steel Columns

MEP Units

Gergerette (3X scale)

Pipes of 3 sizes

Steel tie rod system

Generic Kit of Parts for the Centre Georges Pompidou

The Protean Building distills the major elements of the Pompidou Center in Paris into its component parts creating a “kit”. The kit is composed of simple pieces that can create many diverse and complex outputs. Structures created with this kit of parts can be taken apart, shipped to a new city and reinterpreted in a new image.

Above: The Pompidou Center, Paris

Above/Below: The Pompidou Center, Paris Deconstructed

Above: Campo San Polo, Venice, Italy (Potential Site)

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This presentation focuses on Venice to prove the project’s viability, but the scope should not be constrained to a single site. Cities with strong narratives through their urban fabric such as NYC, Hong Kong, Moscow, etc. are all candidates for a Protean Building. By blending the iconoclastic Parisian Pompidou Center with a foreign urban environment a new building emerges; one that acts as a scale ruler of its host city.

Above: The Pompidou Center, ParisBelow: The Potential NYC Pompidou Center

Above: Potential Toronto Pompidou CenterBelow: Potential London Pompidou Center

Above: Venician Pompidou Center Physical Model FrontBelow: Venician Pompidou Center Physical Model BackBelow: Potential Sydney Pompidou CenterBelow: Potential Melbourne Pompidou Center

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Above: The Venician Pompidou Center View From CanalBelow: The Venician Pompidou Center View From Campo San Polo

Right: The Venician Pompidou Center Floor 1 & 3Below: he Venician Pompidou Center Site Plan

Campo San Polo

The Grand Canal

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» Flora AuroraYear 3 Studio Collaboration

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For this project the studio was contracted by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to

design and build a pavilion for their summer concert series. The Clark had two design requirements: that the rain be kept off the

occupants and that the final pavilion would be easy to assemble and disassemble in a short

period of time.

Through a physical modeling process examining knots for inspiration we arrived at a modular cluster of petals that could be propagated across a field. Each ‘petal‘ was constructed out of silnylon stretched with tent poles threaded through them to create a taut covering.

After the final design was decided on the studio was split into several groups, each working on different aspects of the project. The studio was essentially transformed into a small firm with the professor acting as the principal architect. The final goal was to produce a set of construction documents and a full scale mock-up that would be assembled on the museum’s campus.

Left Top: Potential Occupancy RenderLeft Bottom: Full Scale Mock-up Photography by Liz Sammartino

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Silnylon petal

Tent Pole Structure

Led light

MDF Base

U - Clamps

Tension Rings

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Threshold Diagrams

» ATMA ExtensionYear 4 India Project

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For this project the studio was contacted by the Mill Owner’s Building by Le Corbusier in

Ahmedabad, India to present design proposals for the addition of a research library to the

ATMA property.

My proposal for the extension of the Mill Owner’s Building library was to convert the lot directly behind the building into and extended research campus. The layout of the campus takes suggestions from ATMA, extending it while keeping it in view. The new campus creates a series of movement based around inverting spatial sense. The occupant would move from the striated, mostly open exhibit space into a open series of flat pools. They would then be moved under the library which slices across the campus allowing N/S movement, into a grove or orchard type park.

Top: New Campus PlanRight Bottom: Physical model in front of the ATMA building Left Bottom: Axonometric Section

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Threshold Diagrams Threshold Diagrams

Threshold Diagrams

Top: Full ATMA and Campus PlanRight Bottom: North View

Middle Bottom: Rear RenderLeft Bottom: Exhibit space render - Fractured ATMA View

N/S Movement access

Low GroveThe Mill Owner’s Building

Exhibit Space

Flat Pools

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» Circulatory BridgeYear 4 Design Development Studio

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Floors 7, 8 and 9Floors 7, 8 and 9Floors 7, 8 and 9

This project was a continuation of a proposed extension to the New Stockholm City Library originally designed by

Heike Hanada. We developed the project through the design development phase.

This was a collaboration with Sarah Helfer.

The new Stockholm City Library acts as an updated new media extension to the historic Gunnar Asplund Library. The extension connects the library to the top of the adjacent hill, a previously disconnected college campus and observatory. A series of atriums are suspended through the extension acting as social condensers as well as a circulatory bridge.

Right: Aerial Site RenderBelow: Floor 7, 8, 9

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Grate

Gravel Layer

Gravel Layer

Earth

Insulation

Horizontal Cable

Glass

Insulation

Wind Needle

Glass (two asymetrical layers)Vertical Mullion

Horizontal Mullion

Drop Ceiling

Rail

Light

Vent

Steel Panel

Concrete Encased Beam

Vertical Cable

Honeycomb Floor Structure Composed of I-BeamsLightweight Concrete Shear Stud

Horizontal Mullion are O�est to Read as Single Line from Street Level

InsulationSteel Panels

Double Skin Facade Unit Circulation and Movement Diagram

Atrium Evolution DiagramOrigional Asplund Library

Diagrams

Grate

Gravel Layer

Gravel Layer

Earth

Insulation

Horizontal Cable

Glass

Insulation

Wind Needle

Glass (two asymetrical layers)Vertical Mullion

Horizontal Mullion

Drop Ceiling

Rail

Light

Vent

Steel Panel

Concrete Encased Beam

Vertical Cable

Honeycomb Floor Structure Composed of I-BeamsLightweight Concrete Shear Stud

Horizontal Mullion are O�est to Read as Single Line from Street Level

InsulationSteel Panels

Double Skin Facade Unit Circulation and Movement Diagram

Atrium Evolution DiagramOrigional Asplund Library

Diagrams

Above: Physical ModelLeft: Exterior Wall Section

Below: Atrium Evolution Diagram

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» Autonomous TectonicsYear 3

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This project was an exploration into material guided tensile surfaces, as design technique

in architecture. It was joint research between Cassie Murray and myself.

The focus of the studio was an exploration of autonomous deposition systems through analysis and material study culminating in a tower structure.

We began our material study by examining tensile surfacing in the creation of bubbles. In order to study what would typically be a transient phenomena we developed a gelatinous solution that produced bubbled surfaces that hardened instead of popping. Using coiling wires as a structural guild we began to explore the application of tensile surfaces to create interesting volumetric moments.

We were looking for areas of intense surfacing and enclosure; areas where three or more surfaces connected.

We then deconstructed the system into the affecting forces that drove the creation of the bubble.

Strands CohersionLoop Lines Bubble Lines Repel

Force

Spring

Strand

Cohesion

Lines

Loop

Repel

Bubble

Spring

Bubbles

Cohersion

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Using this newfound understanding of the of the forces behind the creation of these tensile surfaces we began to computationally recreate their creation.

Utilizing the programing environment Processing we recreated the system using a custom spring and multi-agent simulation.

We tweaked and adjusted the simulation to create areas that balanced enclosure and structure.

Catalog of Outputs

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124ft 65ft

59ft 33ft

65ft

Using the material logics and computational simulation we moved towards creating a structure or tower.

Left; Horizontal SectionsAbove: Successful Characteristics Vignettes

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65m

0m

52m

13m

26m

39m

Left; Horizontal SectionsAbove: Successful Characteristics Vignettes

One of the possible programmatic uses of our tower was a lighthouse or pier sculpture.

Left; Vertical SectionAbove: Pier Render

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» Student Housing: Institutional TransformationYear 2

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This project was a collaboration between Jacob Wigton and myself. We were tasked with designing a Living & Learning environment for

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

A Living & Learning Community is a variation or subset of the residential college scheme. Instead of randomly grouping students, like a typical residential college , Living & Learning Communities group people according to commonality or common interest. This brings a variety of student from all majors together, united by a common thread. This cross pollination fosters creativity and new ideas that perhaps wouldn’t have occurred in the random sampling of a Residential College.

The objective of a Living & Learning community is a central focus inward. To facilitate this we settled on a form based on arcs derived from a cycloidal grid.

140140

Floor 5

Floor 4

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ICPR

IVAT

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Study Space

Gallery Space

Public Lounge

Kitchen

Bathroom

Computer Lab

Atrium Balcony

Void

Private Rooms

Semi-Private Lounge

Latitudinal Section

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The student cluster is an integral part of the dorm design. A cluster is a group of 24 students with common interests or goals. The clusters share common space and are connected vertically. The individual units are typically triples. The rooms are designed in such a way that the wall becomes performative. The wall bends to create beds, desks and storage. Two units fit together with a bed from one unit fitting into the negative space created by the other room’s wall.

Above: Unit InteriorBelow: Unit Exterior

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A Cluster of TriplesA Cluster of Doubles

Two Triple Units

Two Double Units

Cluster Section Cut

Cluster Plan

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Left; Massing RenderBottom Left: Physical Model - AtriumBottom Right: Physical Model -Front

The curtain wall facade of the building is programmatically driven. Apertures expand or contract depending on the program of the space behind them. Public space has wide open apertures to promote congregation in the common areas while private space has a larger number of smaller apertures.

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Left; Nighttime RenderBottom Left: Common AreaBottom Right: Atrium

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» Pressure + TensionYear 1

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For this project we were tasked with creating a small structure that evolved from the form of the human body.

At the beginning of the semester we were introduced us to the idea of Architecture as a third skin. I immediately thought of protecting the head and the shoulders. To do this I enhanced and exaggerated the natural spheres and ellipses inherent in that area of the body. The question then was where and how to stop expanding the spheres. To solve this I introduced a knot structure. I used a standard overhand knot repeated and woven together to create a containing surface for the expansion of the spheres. I wanted a natural form instead of a rigidly symmetrical one so I began to study the life cycle of a soap bubble.

To find my three forms I went through a series of experiments that eventually evolved into my project. I began to study the evolution of the bubble using a simple soap and water solution. Each section of the final model is taken from a major stage of the life of a soap bubble. The center figure is taken from the moment right before the bubble breaks from the wand. The figure to the right is taken from the moment after the bubble breaks from the wand and the figure on the left is representative of the moment when two bubbles connect, creating a catenary arch.

The Structure would be created out of a form of strong rubber. It would be used as a playground and every child that climbed over and around it would alter the structure just a bit. The rubber would deform in relation to the most used areas of the structure.

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» Photography

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