CLAYTON MATTHEWS PORTFOLIO
Education
Attending Undergrad at the University of Colorado Denver
Diploma from Thurston High School
Experience
Eagle Scout
Drafting for Pat O Greenwell Drafting and Design
Summer Internship with TBG Architects
The Treads ADU
The Nolan School
Matthews' Home Renovation
English Peak Lookout
The Treads ADU in Cheesman Park
Studio 02
FA 24
Robert Cleary
In face of producing higher density there is also a need to produce tangible benefits for more than just those residing inside. Thinking about how the two units within the ADU as well as the surrounding dwellings interact. The Treads ADU provides accommodations to diverse needs and relationships of the neighborhood.
PRIVATE
Cheesman Park Site Analysis
Studio 2 began with site analysis and the production of visualizations and diagrams with the intent of informing an ADU design. Traffic, Rain, Wind, and Sun are the culmination of my research with other information researched by my studio mates such as typology, demographics, and land use. These studies brought conclusions that the Cheesman Park neighborhood has a majority population of renting white collar young professionals who drive and are without children.
Cheesman Park Site Analysis
WIND AND RAIN
E. 8th Ave.
E. 9th Ave.
N. Lafyette St.
N. Marion St.
The Treads ADU
This two unit ADU questions the changing relationship between age and life. The studio bedroom intended as a mother in law suite, interchanges closely with the Primary dwelling to keep family close. The other unit in the ADU is intended for a typical renter, someone needing a more direct threshold with the public space of the world.
5. LIVING ROOM
6. KITCHEN
7. DINING
8. HALF BATH
1. KITCHENETTE
2. BEDROOM
3. BATHROOM 4. DECK
The Treads ADU
The progress sketches above are near to a finish design where iterations of ideas about roof structure, fenestration, and siding texture were processed. Sketching allowed for more interpretation and creativity than a digital drawing.
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
9. CLOSET
10. BEDROOM 11. BATHROOM
The Treads ADU
NORTH ELEVATION
SECTION B
SECTION A
The Nolan School
Studio 03
SR 25
Kevin Hirth
In rethinking the contemporary education model, the Universal Design for Learning describes an education environment that is adaptive and varying to the needs for each individual learner. Teaching happens in multiple modes and mediums. To support the variety of environments needed in the UDL system, space is delineated by the mode of education: one on one, small group, and large group. To address the changing and growing nature of school, transition points are included to mix each environment, giving choice and autonomy to learning.
The Nolan School
Universal Design for learning shows how the three silos and core tenets of its system blend together in a Venn diagram. This project expands upon the calculated and precise expression of a Venn diagram to the whole project.
Setting three sets of tiled circles to form a grid or figure field condition that gives precise vertices's to build the rest of the project off of. Within a form that can both express the siloing nature of schools and break it, allowing for a learning experience backed by agency.
TILE EQUIVALENT CIRCLES ON TO A PLANE,
LAYER A SECOND GRID OF TILED EQUIVALENT CIRCLES ON TOP OF THE FIRST TILING,
CENTER THE SECOND SET ON AN INTERSECTION WITHIN THE FIRST SET,
ROTATE THE SECOND SET BY 30 DEGREES AROUND THE PREVIOUSLY SELECTED VERTEX,
SCALE THE SECOND SET SUCH THAT THE DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO VERTICES 60 DEGREES APART IS EQUAL TO THE DIAMETER OF THE FIRST SET,
LAYER A THIRD SET OF CIRCLES THAT MATCH THE SCALE AND ROTATION OF THE SECOND,
CENTER THE THIRD SET ON AN INTERSECTION OF THE SECOND SET.
The Nolan School
On Speer in Aurora Colorado, the school is located in the path of steady expansion and growth. Of the time of this project the site is surrounded by a sprawl of low one and two story buildings, but the future of the are is predicted to be full of multi story towers. This project aims to be a landmark within the growing city as something energetic and unique. The prompt is an elementary school, but the twist is that the site is so small that the program must be a tower. There are all sorts of reasons why having a school be a tower is problematic so instead of trying to work around it, this project leans into the unrealistic nature of the prompt and has fun.
SECTION PERSPECTIVE
The Nolan School
LECTURE PERSPECTIVE
LOBBY PERSPECTIVE
CLASSROOM PERSPECTIVE
Structure Study Model
Construction Practices
FA 24
Jo VandenBurg
Collaboration With:
Mark Barrett
Max Anna Locket
Victoria Miranda Sanchez
Research and model practice of Hayward Field in Eugene Oregon, focusing on the mass timber glulams and seating construction. This was a group project and the final for Construction Practices. My role within the group was of research, presentation, and model planing.
Pine Pavilion
Studio 01
SP 24
Erika Sweigert Nava
Shelter is a study of presence in space. The plain unornamented curvilinear wall stands out in front of a berm toped with Ponderosa pine trees. From one side of the wall is a shaped and reclining bench oriented towards the wall, the other side is a busy walkway. On both sides the viewer is indented to look past and ignore the wall. The pavilion’s purpose is to block out certain views to entice curiosity and new perspectives of the surrounding park. In a simple form the structure produces wonder to the space contained as well as the landscape beyond.
Awbrey Lane
Work with Pat Greenwell consisted of producing technical documents for permit submittal. Shown is the Awbrey Lane project where client drawings were transferred by hand into the company’s formatting of plans, elevations, and section details. The client is a general contractor by trade and is intending to do as much of the construction as he can feasibly complete including design.
Matthews' Home Renovation
Self guided Revit practice, modeling the Matthews' house as well as some proposed renovations working with the phasing mechanics.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN EXISTING AND DEMO
GROUND FLOOR PLAN NEW CONSTRUCTION
English Peak Lookout
Beyond work and school architecture has contently been apart of my life, demonstrating that the best is the English Peak Fire Lookout Restoration. This volunteer project with the National Forest Service consisted of a week long camp in the Marble Mountain Wilderness, better known as the ‘Back County.’ The NFS provided a train of pack animals to haul our gear, tools, and materials up 8 miles to the camp and another 2 miles to the work site. The English Peak Fire Lookout was in need of new paint, a patch, and many of the shutters were starting to rot. The Lookout was also considered a historic building so our work had to be in line with that of the original structure. The restoration consisted of two trips up, I participated in the first where we mostly scraped and painted. Importantly, during this I also measured the Lookout to discern shutter sizes as well as work on a universal template that all the shutters could fit in, as the structure has shifted and skewed overtime. The shutters were later constructed and fitted without me as I was in collage.
English Peak Lookout
