Matt Bourean M.ARCH Portfolio

Clemson University School of Architecture Portfolio Matt Bourean

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Table of Contents

Terrace on the River

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ATS Clinic Playground Addition

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Egg Crate Bench

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Horseshoe Bend Observation Pavilion

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Indigo Vat Shack Design Build

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Matt Bourean | mbourea@g.clemson.edu | (864) 477-0553 Clemson University | Masters of Architecture | Spring 2022

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Terrace on the River

VETERAN STATISTICS:

Without the support system vital to their recovery, over 62,000 veterans are unable to find permanent housing. These people continue to lack the basic human needs of shelter, food, water, and safety. 68% reside in cities, 50% have serious mental illness, 70% suffer from substance abuse issues, and 51% deal with physical disabilities.

Transitional Housing for Homeless Veterans & Their Dogs SCOPE:

This project is aimed at providing temporary housing to the veteran sect of the adult homeless population in Mobile, Alabama. By functioning as mixed-use building typology, Terrace on the River focuses on more than simply providing a place of refuge from life on the streets for these individuals. With a building area of approximately 160,000 sqft, we have taken into account the necessities required by this transient veteran population including mental and physical health & well-being, personal development, and job training.

Total Sqft: 149,131 ft2

Fourth Floor: 27,740 ft2

Third Floor: 31,119 ft2

Second Floor: 11,807 ft2

Ground Floor: 78,465 ft2

TERRACED GREEN SPACE:

The recessed terraces available on every level within the building’s envelope allow residents to have obstructed access to nature and green spaces. These elevated gardens produce areas of relaxation, moments of pause, and communal gathering spaces; while providing aesthetic appeal and multi-layered functioning. The terraces above are retracted back from the center of the river but still partially protect the walkways on the terraces below. Some areas on the ground floor inside the courtyard have wider patches of green in response to the function occurring within the building they adjoin to, such as physical therapy and rehabilitation spaces or the canine clinic.

PROGRAM:

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The programmatic spaces needed to carry out the design intentions of this project were based off the needs of the user group, veterans experiencing homelessness. On the ground floor, the needs of both the veterans and the animals health and wellness are addressed, with the second floor containing more semi-public spaces available to residents such as self-help and communal gathering areas.

SECTION CUT:

The mixed-use spaces on the lower levels and residential areas both have access to public terraces and green spaces facing the interior courtyard.

DESIGN FOR CHANGE:

DESIGN FOR WATER:

DESIGN FOR WELLNESS:

DESIGN FOR ENERGY:

DESIGN FOR COMMUNITY:

DESIGN FOR ECOSYSTEM:

DESIGN FOR INTEGRATION:

DESIGN FOR RESOURCES:

DESIGN FOR ECONOMY:

DESIGN FOR DISCOVERY:

The purpose of this project is to provide housing for transient veterans and their pets as well as implementing multiple resources within the building.

The building provides the user various facilities such as rehabilitation center, mental health center, animal shelter, vet clinic, clinic, library, classrooms.

By containing an animal shelter, vet clinic, and public gallery space, this project creates a community atmosphere. It also provides large, open green spaces with access to the river through walkways.

The project was designed to tend to the user’s various needs while providing a multi-functional, aesthetic surrounding. By focusing on the needs of the individual, we are able to help them rejoin society.

Rainwater is collected through the green roof system and stored for re-use. Large open spaces allow for natural ventilation and photovoltaic cells provide energy for heating and lighting the building.

The green roof system will gather rainwater that will be recycled through a cistern and UV filtration system to be reused for all water needs. The plants will also help filter out pollutants and keep the building cool.

100% of the building’s energy is produced on site. The building reduces its carbon footprint by utilizing a solar photovoltaic array of 800 PV panels to produce energy for lighting and heating.

Keeping 80% of the existing vegetation to act as a natural privacy border. Creating a new path for the existing river to flow through the site will allow the new creek to be utilized to provide adiabatic cooling.

To reduce the resources needed, the design use materials that suit the context and respond to the current natural surroundings. The materials include concrete, steel, glass, reclaimed wood & local brick.

By taking the surrounding environment into account when designing, this building and its systems offer sustainability and innovation to the site’s natural landscape.

SOUTHERN FACADE EXTERIOR RENDERING:

Along the perimeter of the building are walking paths that weave between trees and intersect with the building’s threshold entryways.

This allows pedestrians to be able to enter into the courtyard and interconnect the outside with the inside effortlessly.

In the green space between the building and the river is an open space, spotted with trees for shading, that allow the community’s dogs to run around and get the exercise they need.

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TYPICAL ADA RESIDENTIAL UNIT FLOOR PLAN

ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY:

One of the most innovative design features included in the building is the incorporation of an animal shelter, veterinarian clinic with the addition of grooming stations and kennels. The idea of bringing these two homeless factions together was a way to address both issues and allow them to form a kind of symbiotic relationship from each other. Through our research we discovered the use of animals as an aid for therapy for the residents and provides both an emotional support companion as well as the ability to be trained to be a service dog. All-the-while allowing the dogs to have their own needs fulfilled like a place to live and the love and attention they need.

It also served as a way to get the community involved by way of creating a dog park on the premise for all to use and the veterinarian office and kennels are open to the public and can be serviced by the veteran residents thereby giving them a sense of purpose and some job responsibilities.

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As it can be seen in almost all of the renderings and drawings, the entire facility was designed to be used by people with their dogs. Even the residences have private patios with faux grass for the dogs to be able to have easy access to the bathrooms without the need to go down to the ground floor.

TYPICAL LOFT RESIDENTIAL UNIT FLOOR PLAN

RENDERING OF INTERIOR COURTYARD AND WATER FEATURE:

The interior courtyard contains smaller, more secluded green spaces scattered about on the ground floor and terraces receding back at various depths at each level in the building. These terraces provide sun and rain protection to the walkways beneath as well as general circulation and gathering spaces for the residents. The river that carves through our site brings with it a constant flow of water and creates a sense of serenity to aid in recovery. With amphitheater style seating going into the water, residents are able to interact with the river’s edge; in addition, it gives off adiabatic cooling to the lower levels of the building.

LOFT RESIDENTIAL UNIT AXON

SLEEPING PAVILION AXON

ADA RESIDENTIAL UNIT AXON

VEGETATION EROSION CONTROL BLANKET GROWING MEDIUM IRRIGATION SYSTEM STABALIZATION MAT FILTER FABRIC DRAINAGE LAYER/ROOT BARRIER WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE CONCRETE DECK

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Advanced Therapy Solutions Clinic Addition

Phase 1 of a Custom Design Build Playground for a Pediatric Physical and Occupational Therapy Clinic SCOPE:

The purpose behind this project was to create a custom indoor playground for children at a pediatric physical and occupational therapy clinic located in Greenville, SC. By designing and building a custom version of the playground, the space available was efficiently used, more attachments and features could be added on to allow the visual and vestibular stimulation needed by the patients attending the clinic, and the cost to design and build ourselves was kept a fraction of what a standard set ordered online would cost.

TASKS AND JOBS:

As a freelance designer working through this project, multiple jobs and tasks needed to be completed.

Tasks included:

- Several meetings with the owner who also served as the contractor

- Taking as-built measurements

- Designing phases 1-3

- Drawing construction documents, specs sheets and shop files

- Sourcing materials

- Cost estimation for labor and materials

- Keeping costs under budget

- Assembling the phase 1 structure

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CUT FILES:

Part of this design build was to create a custom fitting playground in multiple phases. The images shown above and to the right are of the phase 1 completion and the images to the left are that of the cut files and lengths necessary to complete the initial phase.

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Egg Crate Bench

Functional and Minimalistic Seating Design

SCOPE:

The intent behind this project was to learn a new method of fabrication and create a piece of minimalistic furniture. By using the robotic arm of the CNC machine that operates by way of a series of coordinated points on a plane, the software allows intricate and unique designs to emerge from the two dimensional cut files. The process was formed by removing this section of curves from a larger object and then offsetting those curves to allow thickness to be shown on the plywood. The new shapes that taken from the original lines were incomprehensible given the initial image.

DETAILS:

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This whole to part version of the initial object was developed over the course of the semester.

To the left, the puzzle like cuts allow each individual piece to be placed whether is convenient on the plywood sheet and then assembled after all pieces have been cut. The placement of pieces within the cut files allowed a more efficient use of the material and greatly reduced the waste created during the production process.

FABRICATION:

With the use of a CNC routing machine, these organic styled puzzle pieces would be milled out from quarter inch plywood sheets and then assembled together. The small slits carved out of the overall shape are multi-purposed in that they help the CNC router bit cut the pieces out cleanly and stay put to the backer board while in production as well as providing intersecting connection points between each puzzle piece during assembly.

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Horseshoe Bend Observation Pavilion A Functional and Minimalistic Seating Design

Top floor of the pavilion. The recessed concrete ceiling offers the same coverage but at a lower weight.

Middle level of the pavilion and puts visitors in line with the glass geometric form suspended in the atrium.

Overall view of what the design looked like carving into the mountain top.

SCOPE:

This pavilion was the final project in a semester long process of digital drawing, 3D printing, laser cutting, and CNC manufacturing. The minimalistic bench above is an earlier project from this same series. The idea was to take a boolean form that has been subtracted and carved from and use only a segment of that form to turn it into whatever kind of structure and building typology you’d like.

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GLASS:

Within this design, there are three different types of glass being used. They all serve different purposes, but all help to enhance the visitor’s experience. The glass on the southwestern facing facade is a dark tinted, thick, reflective styled glass to reduce the amount of heat coming from the natural light entering the interior atrium space.

The floating geometric figure is a type of stained glass that plays with the incoming natural light and paints the light colored concrete floors and ceilings varying shades of color depending on the time of day. The last use of glass is that of the handrails on each level of the interior. This glass is rather clear and helps to visually keep the space open and not make guests feel confined.

STRIATIONS TO STAIRS:

The idea was to create a visual and physical flow from the mountains naturally rocky cliff to the man-made concrete stairs on the roof of the observation pavilion. The striation pattern continued from the top down to the bottom where the larger, wider stairs could continue the man-made striations until the natural ones on the rock’s facade could start again.

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Indigo Vat Shack Design Build A Mobile Studio Space for Local Indigo Dyeing Artist SCOPE:

This was a design-build project based in Charleston, South Carolina. The purpose of the Indigo Vat Shack was to work with a local non-profit organization to create a mobile studio space for artists in the area. Within the structure, the local artists were to use indigo dye as a medium to design, create, and showcase their work as well as to teach the community about the history of the indigo plant. In an effort to focus towards being green and not harmful to the environment, the shack is a fully sustainable and self-sufficient structure complete with solar panels, rain water and drainage collection.

COMMUNITY DYE DAYS:

The local non-profit sponsoring the build was Enough Pie whose mission statement is “to use creativity to connect & empower our community in Charleston’s Upper Peninsula.” In collaboration with the artists, the collective held community dye days every month and had elementary school students in the area come plant and harvest as well as learn about the uses and unique history of this southern cash crop during the early colonial years.

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Multipurpose awnings are used as exterior walls, sun shade devices, and the backings located behind the louvers to act as security by fully enclosing the shack and keep the elements out.

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Shelving system for storing materials and ingredients. Plumbing and sink are fully operational with drainage piping underneath and water intake hookups from common water source.

Murphy table being lowered on top of a hinge joint. The shelving system acts as a counterweight against the weight of the table and keeps it level with the assistance of a metal leg.

Translucent plastic roofing material sits atop the flying wood rafters and purlins with recycled tin between the eaves and the transoms over the front and back entry points of the shack.

On each side there are solar panels on top of the adjustable tin awnings with a 1/2” reveal between the awning and shiplap to protect against rain and show the white painted steel frame underneath.

Gridded roof framing and translucent roofing material allows natural sunlight to radiate through the ceiling and diffuse throughout the studio space.

Reclaimed barn wood ship lap siding. The boards were The corrugated tin is screwed to pivoting metal arms orientated this direction so that the saw marks that are that allow the tin walls to swing upward and be secured visible on the boards can be seen and felt by visitors. to become a type of extended roofing system.

Interior view of the Indigo Vat Shack. Shows translucent roof lighting, 55 gallon vats, information panels, stools, storage shelving, and dye quilt.

Reclaimed wood cut as shiplap siding to enclose the front and rear facades of the structure as well as the back quarter segments towards the rear on both sides.

Interior bench built over trailer wheel well. Also pictured are stackable stools for the artists and community to use in the studio on dye days and larger events.

Louver system and fascia board detail. This system allows wind circulation and heat to dissipate, while protecting against rains, debris, and wildlife.

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