Matthew Garrett - Architecture Portfolio 2022

MATTHEW GARRETT

PORTFOLIO 2021-2022

University of Kansas / Lawrence, KS / Expected Graduation May 2026

Masters of Architecture

Parkway South High School / Manchester, MO / Graduated May 2020

President’s Award for Academic Excellence

Outstanding Citizenship Award National Honor Society

WORK

KU Dining Services / Barista

Adapt to a constantly evolving environment

High attention to customer satisfaction

Required to work with efficiency and accuracy

City of Manchester, MO / Aquatic Center Manager

Oversee daily operations of the City Aquatic Center

Supervise all staffing and scheduling

Maintain a clean and efficient work environment

Responsible for all product orders and inventory tracking

Handle all matters of customer satisfaction

Certified ServSafe Food Handler

City of Manchester, MO / Aquatic Center Staff

Check in a high volume of patrons

First resource for any questions regarding the facility

Proper preparation and storage of numerous food items

matt.garrett@ku.edu (314) 809-5176

2021 - Present 2021 - Present 2018-2021

BABOQUIVARI COMMUNITY CLINIC

TOHONO O’ODHAMM NATION, SELLS AZ Rural Clinic and Community Center

Fall 2022

For this project we were tasked with creating an all-encompassing clinic and community center. This project is located on the Tohono O’odham Nation Indian Reservation. Due to the lack of local healthcare facilities, most people would find themselves relying on automobile transport to Tuscon for doctors visits. For any moderately traumatic injury in the vicinity, the only option was to fly patients from the scene of the injury all the way to larger urban hospitals via helicopter. This is a costly and environmentally damaging solution to an ever present problem. The solution is to create a clinic that can serve most of these functions where it is readily available to the population and operates in an environmentally conscious manner.

PROJECT SITE

BABOQUIVARI PEAK

Single-story building allows for uniform accessibility

Divide according to function: Community Spaces and Clinic

Create relationship with both the local landscape and the monumental Baboquivari Peak

Invite sunlight and healing into the Clinic through a 360° clerestory

WAITING AREA

THE FIELDHOUSE LINK

115 W 11TH ST, LAWRENCE, KS

Outdoor Basketball Court Enclosure Fall 2022

The premise of this project was to explore the applications and construction of long-span steel structures. Located in the heart of Lawrence at the intersection of 11th Street and Massachusetts Street, this site has great value to the community and to the University of Kansas. Currently the site is occupied by a historic community center, constructed in 1940 as an armory. It now serves the city with and indoor basketball court, weight room, and gathering spaces.

This building is beginning to fall behind as its surroundings get moderninzed, and one way to bring it into the current age is to bring new life to the site. Next to the community building sits a large asphalt parking lot. For this project I propose a long, snaking steel structures which brings with it three new outdoor basketball courts and covered gathering spaces. The building also snakes into South Park, introducing pedestrian traffic into the underutilized southern part of downtown.

VIEW FROM MASSACHUSETTS ST

A PLACE FOR CONTEMPLATION

PIONEER CEMETERY, LAWRENCE, KS Nondenominational Chapel Fall 2022

Perhaps one of the most overlooked historic sites in Lawrence is that of Pioneer Cemetery. This cemetery is home to some of the oldest and most influential figures to the history of not only Lawrence, but the entire midwest. The site just south of the cemetery is a wide open plot of land with beautiful views of the city. Our task was to design a nondenominational chapel to be places in this space, open for use by whomever and for whatever.

The design of this chapel features a large raked roof, opening up the building towards the north. Surrounding the building are fixed angled shutters, clad on the exterior with glass panels. At the middle of each side are two large operable panels that act as monumental doors. To the rear is a private gowning space and storage area.

SEQUENCE

Spring 2022

The Spatial Journey is not simply about how people respond to architecture, but moreso how architecture should respond to people. Not only should architecture respond to people, but it should anticipate, react, and guide them.The guiding role that the architecture of a space plays in a user’s experience within that space is a key aspect of the design of that space, and architects should not take their role in creating these guiding aspects lightly.

The space guides users by creating individual spaces. The start, pause, and destination. In my project, I wanted the journey to represent a person’s journey through life. The way for me to represent life through architecture was to mimic the stages of life through my spaces. At the beginning, you see a long road ahead, but in the distance above you can see the finish line, what any person aspires to reach and who they want to become.

ENCLOSURE

Spring 2022

The Synthesis of the final model for this unit was the capstone of this studio. It required the application and refining of each skill that we have learned thus far.It began with the creation of the model based off of the ArchiPod diagrams that we created previously. By refining the ArchiPods we had a base for a model, and I then took advantage of the laser cutter available to us to obtain accurate components of the model. After assembled, landscaping was added.Once the model was complete, final floor plans were drafted and those were then used to create a long and short section.

All of these steps required the core pieces of knowledge that we obtained in each previous project in order to create a seamless final product. The final rendering and plasns were also modified to show tone, and to create an experience beyond conveying the architecture. Instead, these final deliverables were also able to convey the intended mood, setting, and therefore site of the model.

Drawing by Elizabeth Frohwein

LIGHTBOX

Fall 2021

The Lightbox assignment was all about considering how light interacted with models we made - and how the models we made interacted with light. Drawing on a relatively organic shape from another Jeanne Gang building, I experimented with how that shape can be transformed. I ended up angling the bottom flat edge upwards, and then tilting the shape down to rest on the new edge. This created a very natural flow almost like water as you looked through the model. It was also interesting to develop a way to hold my slices together without obstructing all paths of light or disrupting the flow of the pattern. A comb interlocked to the slices was braced by slotted paper acting as a skewer at the top, which still permitted light to enter from the left and bottom of the model.

The first portion of our line unit involved us manipulating a slice from a quilt. This part of the project was good to help me start to get a feel for creating an analytical piece of work based off of an existing object. After analyzing the slices, we assigned height rules to them based on color, and continued to build upon those rules and refine our slices.

For each stage in refining our slices, we created a model for that slice. After each iteration, we went back to our slice to make any necessary tweaks, as well as create new rules that would apply to our future models. When I look back at all four models I created for this assignment I can see a very clear progression through my models as my ideas and rules developed and became realized.