Matthew A BardonTable of ContentsGraduate and Under Graduate Portfolio

The Portfolio is organized in order to display my skills with relevant programs as well as a display of my interests as a designer. Sketches are included to convey my passion for travel and art. This collection of work provides a view of the scope of work that I can provide as well as a wide array of technical skills that I can bring to your firm.

Steam Bending Page 11

Modular Units Page 12

Breaking the Stigma Page 7

Community Center Page 8

Art Gallery Page 3,4

Inclined Planes Page 1,2

Art Page 13,14

Urban Habitat Page 5,6

Lounge-scape Page 9,10

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The sloping form takes advantage of the topography on the site in order to maximize outdoor circulation, and access to indoor space. The STEM and commercial areas are programmed according to density of pedestrian traffic.

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 walk-ability, in particular exploring ways in which the natural slope of the site can facilitate movement through multiple levels along a network of inclined planes. 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.

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

Art Gallery:4 Galleries, One Space

Seattle, WA4th Year Studio

Professor: Arash Adel

This Project was put on 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 totals 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, but this building supports it even further.

Openings: Isocurves in y/x direction

Stairs: Isocurves in z direction

Trees Dictate Form Form Responds

Connections:Artistic Invitation between exhibition space

The connection between the galleries are based on a rotational geometric algorithm that uses hyperbolic surfaces. This simple algorithm (left) can be used to connect a wide range of different variations. These connections open the space of the gallery to give 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.

Urban Habitat:Vertical Suburbs

Sand Francisco, CA3rd Year Studio

Professor: Anna Mutin

This project was born out of the inspiration of a mixed-use development that can encompass both the urban lifestyle as well as a feeling of being surrounded by nature. 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 displays a template for a new type of residential tower. These houses in the sky promote a new ideal for what density can provide within the context of the urban habitat,

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The entire tower is tilted towards the south providing sunlight to the large cantilevered public spaces that project into the city. The sunlight descends into the public plaza within the base that allows for a multiple level event space. 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 left 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.

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.

In an effort to bring awareness to the homeless in Seattle I propose that we bridge this psychological gap outside the gallery. By setting up spaces for the homeless people in our city to display their art we will start a social dialogue about the stigma of homelessness. This art will connect people on the street, and improve the stigma in many peoples mind. Furthermore, it will offer something that will help people economically.

Breaking the Stigma:Artistic ExpressionGraduate Summer Studio

Coordinators: Rex Holbein and Tom Maul

Community Center:Peaceful Valley

Spokane, WA3rd Year Studio

Professor: Matt Cohen

Plan: Floor 2

Plan: Floor 1

This project was set in a park that was currently occupied by a multi-functional temporary community center. This lower-income area of Spokane boasts great personality, and I wanted to convey that within my design. The design is shaded by a PTFE tensile roof to resist wind as well as providing an area protected from precipitation. The angled columns provide support for a large covered space that functions as an outdoor community area. The design is originally based on connection between Spokane and peaceful valley as the slope separates the two. This building provides this connection with many social spaces along the way.

Material Specificity: 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 specificity. This is a currently 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.

This lounge-scape is meant to provide a place for people to gather in front of the model shop where many people wait for their turn at the laser cutter. With a range of seating positions we can accommodate for different comfort tendencies. With the mixture of these two materials the sectional construction could be created into a comfortable place to sit. Within the next phase of this project we will suggest a tensile structure that will offer greater ergonomics and a more cost effective digital fabrication, and a more fluid design using the same performance metrics set up within a grasshopper definition.

Lounge-scapePublic Concept

Parametric Design: Steam Bending

Computational Design Seminar Spring 2014

Research Group: Matthew Bardon, Artem Vinnikov, and

Alex ScofieldCoordinator: Arash Adel

This Project aimed to create a Parametric family of wall systems providing seating based on the material specificity of wood. Experimenting with a variety of different woods, we settled on creating the final form with white ash. The parametric definition 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.

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 MassicampoPoint 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 a 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 you draw a scene, or a person, you begin to understand more than you could have ever noticed had you taken a picture. A drawing is like a journal entry, it can remind you of both your experience and your state of mind. I am drawn to all kinds of media in Art, here are the two forms of artistic expression that I consider a staple.