Matthew Garrett Architecture Portfolio 2023

MATTHEW GARRETT

PORTFOLIO 2023

MATTHEW GARRETT

mattgarrett2002@gmail.com

(314) 809-5176

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 EXPERIENCE

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

FILM ROW ARTS CENTER

1701 BROADWAY BLVD, KANSAS CITY, MO

Multipurpose Arts Center

Spring 2023

A currently vacant lot in the heart of Kansas City at Broadway Blvd. and 18th Street is the perfect location for a cultural and arts center that will reflect the history of the Crossroads Arts District while fostering active learning and education programs.

The form of the arts center is focused on creating two distinct spaces based on program. The northernmost wing hosts galleries, a theater, learning spaces, a cafe, and administrative offices. The southern wing hosts the set design program, with a design and fabrication lab overlooking a wood shop connected to a set building area. The two wings are connected by a sky bridge. The space left between the forms is activated as a secondary plaza where large operable doors open up the learning space to the outdoors.

In addition to the building itself, the site contains an outdoor amphitheater for movie screenings. The parking lot sits above the amphitheater where a row of cars can get a drive-in movie experience. A wide array of sustainability systems are also present, such as photovoltaic panels, permeable surfaces, and passive stack ventilation.

Site Axonometric

Stack Ventilation

Photovoltaic System

Permeable Pavement

Elevation / Northeast

Section / A-A

Elevation / Northwest

Section / B-B

Primary Gallery Space

Secondary Gallery Space & Café

Exterior Plaza

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

MASSING NARRATIVE

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

MULTI-FUNCTION FLEX SPACE

CLINIC 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 modernized, 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.

Typical path, avoids southern areas

NATURAL PEDESTRIAN PATH

New path incorporates southern areas

VIEW FROM MASSACHUSETTS ST

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.

ORTHOGRAPHIC DRAFTINGS

TWO-POINT PERSPECTIVE SKETCH

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.

SITE ANALYSIS

Drawing by Elizabeth Frohwein

FRONT PERSPECTIVE

FLOOR PLAN / LEVEL 1

FLOOR PLAN / LEVEL 2

SECTION DRAWINGS

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.

FRONT VIEW