Matthew Yip - Portfolio - Spring 2025

Portfolio Matthew Yip. UBC SALA Bachelor of Design

Contact yippermj@shaw.ca +1 403 801 2283 matthewyip.ca

Hello! I‘m Matthew Yip. Vancouver BC, and Calgary AB yippermj@shaw.ca matthewyip.ca

I’m a fourth year architectural design student greatful to be learning alongside brilliant peers at UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

My work embraces constantly evolving curiosity that has developed with detail, and craft and still requires refinement; something onging and of course never quite complete. I believe that designers work best when we collaborate, and do so coming from a place of empathy, curiosity, and enthusiasm. My goal as a designer is to challenge hegemonic conceptions of space, and embrace interconnected, compassionate architectures that serve all - from humans to the greater than human.

Education 2021-Present

Experience May - August, 2024

May - August, 2024

Volunteering

Bachelor of Design in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism University of British Columbia | Vancouver, BC Deans Scholar Co-op: Available for 16 months beginning May 2024

Co-op Student Iredale Architecture | Vancouver BC. Developed massing and schematic modelling in Revit for multiresidential feasability study, Reviewed bylaws and buidling codes for applicable components, and developed documents in InDesign to deliver to clients.

Net-Zero Buildings Research Intern [co-op] Volta Research Inc. | Toronto ON. Analyzed and synthesized strategies from National, Ontario, BC, and Energy Star building energy codes to assess targets and differences for single-family dwellings. Critiqued disparities between provincial and national building codes using HOT2000 energy modeling. Received training on applying Python for building code component compliance.

Aug. 2024 - Present

BDES Representative For A Feminist Architecture | Vancouver, BC Elected representative for the undergraduate students to FAFA, a collective commited to challenging monocultural attitudes toward architectural education and practice.

July - Sept. 2023

Farm Assistant Grow Calgary | Calgary, AB Fostered caring and welcoming relationships with a variety of other volunteers and farm managers to care for, grow, and harvest produce.

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Digital

Drafting Sketching Painting

Illustrator Photoshop InDesign Rhino 7 AutoCAD 3D-Printing Lasercutting Revit Grasshopper

Achievements 2024 2022, 2023, 2024

Architectural Institute of BC Award: Awarded to students with outstanding academic achievement and dedication to growth in design Trek Excellence Award: Academic achievement for top 5% of students in program year

contents 01 Gather + Grow

Generating a responsive housing typology connecting community through gardening and food / pg. 06 - 11

03 Root Collective

Cultivating synergies community, food and ecology / pg. 18-23

05 Go with the Flow Theatre

Finding form in an unconventional theatre / pg. 30 - 37

02 Beach Walk

Choreographing an experience at Wreck Beach / pg. 12 - 17

04 MONAD Case Study Building understanding of wall assemblies, materials, and precedent projects / pg. 24 - 29

06 Miscellaneous

curricular and extracurricular work / pg. 38 - 47

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Grow + Gather Developing a new horizon for combining living and urban agriculture on a residential site in Vancouver’s Riley Park Neighbourhood

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Year: 2023 Course: DES 301 - Building Scale Synthesis 01 Community Dining Hall 02 Laundromat Instructor: Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy 03 Public Washrooms 04 Community Kitchen 05 Community Garden

This project challenged me to think within the context of the housing crisis in Vancouver in which rising costs of living have put immense pressure on individuals and families to meet their basic shelter and food needs. This project asked us to develop a set of demands that framed our intervention along a framework of creating equitable, responsive, and smart desnity. My manifesto took the form of the following points.

1) we must locate housing close to and integrate it into productive community-led food initiatives.

This serves to create good quality affordable food for all, engagement opportunities for the community, and a more compassionate understanding of the land we exist on - especially how much space, energy, water, it takes to grow the food we often 06

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2) These spaces will be open to the community, not just to residents, thus everyone is able to participate and benefit from the food grown together.

3) This housing will be non-market co-operative housing units that support a range of incomes and ages, they should be intimate but not overpopulated. The co-op aids in supporting the voices of residents, but also engages them in tight-knit shared cooking schedules, and orienting residents on managing the farm.

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Beach Walk Developing a new horizon for combining living and urban agriculture on a residential site in Vancouver’s Riley Park Neighbourhood Year: 2024 Course: DES 302 - Vancouver Instructor: Divine Ndemeye Team: Meiji Pangsophon, Lon Tam

This design project aimed to connect with the enigmatic and hidden essence of Wreck Beach by employing dynamic, evolving, and transient materials. Through this approach, we intend to create a space that offers moments of tranquility, introspection, and contemplation. Our focal point will be the Douglas fir, serving as both a silent observer and a central element in our reflection space. This tree will act as a landmark, a sanctuary for confession, and an opportunity for individuals to harmonize with their surroundings.

The overarching goal is to craft an immersive environment that invites visitors to feel and connect with past memories that exist around the site, fostering a sense of oneness and inner peace.

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sitting stumps amalgamated shell installation

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Along the beach, naturalized resting space provide an opprotunity to engage with the environment

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In the Marsh, stumps elevate walkers above the intertidal zone, protecting the sensative marsh and stabalizing the bank.

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Out on the jetty, spaces for contemplation are combined with multisensory elements like local planting to enhance engagement with the surroundings and suppot healing.

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Rooted Living Cultivating synergies between community through food and ecology.

Year: 2024 Course: DES 401 - Urbanism Instructor: Mari Fujita Site: Vancouver, BC. Collaborators : Esha Sodhi

Throughout our urban studio we were asked to interrogate the existing infrastructure and zoning that shapes the UEL. We found an imbalance in accessibility and inclusion of different actors, from human to non-human. Between the history of how the zones came to be, the policies, and the physical infrastructures present, the neighbourhood is often hostile and exclusionary to those not embedded in its wealthy single family dwelling logic.

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to introduce policy and rezoning that can start to orient people to make the connection between food and the environment, as the UBC FARM explains “Food is the most intimate way we consciously interact with the environment.”

We takled growing system tackles densification by shaping FSR through habitat density and community farming initatives and needs. Our proposed hub embodies the core of our imagined framework; balancing the need for growth with ecological resiliance and acess to good food.

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01/ Situating the UEL

02/ “Public” to Growing and Learning Lawns

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MONAD case study Understanding current models for dense urban living in Vancouver through a project by LWPAC Year: 2023 Course: DES 301 - Building Scale Synthesis Instructor: Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy Collaborators: Channing Ferguson

A studio project analysing the existing approaches to housing in Vancouver and around the world.

My team got to study MONAD, a groundbreaking urban infill project constructed by LWPAC in 2011.

Cindy Wilson and Oliver Lang sought to merge dense multifamily dwellings with comfortable, sustainable, and beautiful living spaces. Sitting on a 33’ wide lot on Waterloo St. and West 4th Ave, the structure combines adaptable, modular, scalable, and efficient generation of buildings, interrogating dissonant attitudes between neighbourhoods and density. Ultimately LWPAC and this building reflect 024

new ways of thinking about privacy, transparency, and community. They achieve this new vision by blurring what is common and individual; deconstructing hegemonic constructions of privacy in the way we live - person to person, neighbour to neighbour; and encouraging community through the subtle sightlines and joined spaces that can link dwellings together.

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Go with the Flow Theatre Finding form for a non-conventional community theatre.

Year: 2023 Course: DES 202 - Form Instructor: Young-Tack Oh Site: 1820 Fir Street, Vancouver, BC.

An interstitial space hides in plain sight, masquerading as a parking lot, a corridor, or a gravel patch.

But could it be more? Adjacent to the Arthur Erikson Waterfall Building, nestled along the Arbutus corridor, the culmination of my second studio course was a project that harnessed previous exercises to synthesize a new form, transforming the space into a vibrant performance venue for the community. Drawing inspiration from an analysis of human motion, enhanced by the interplay of wind patterns within the site context, the envisioned theater embodies the essence of oscillations in its sweeping, cradling, and flowing form.

These broad, dramatic gestures both divide and unite the space, inviting dynamic interactions and openings.

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The theatres design places emphasis on the programming of performance in the way that it both situates occupants and is situated in the site.

The journey from the street-scape to the stage becomes a captivating procession, engaging not only the theater, the performers, and the audience but also the entire community. The act of performance transcends its traditional boundaries, transforming into an immersive experience shared by all.

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Stairway leading to Stage

Social/ Community Seating Refreshments Table

Washroom & Dressing Room

Accessibility Lift

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Selected Works Kannikegården Case Study Understanding building assembly by researching, analysing, and drafting a case study project by Lundgaard and Tranberg Arkitekter Year: 2023 Course: DES 232 - Material Culture Instructor: Timothy Wong

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Matthew Yip Shelter for Roman Ruins Analytique Model developing a schematic and tactile analysis of Peter Zumthors Shelter for Roman Ruins.

Year: 2023 Course: DES 421 - Design Theory Instructor: Leslie Van Duzer Team: Natalie Au, Damon Sabbadin

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Wall House No.2 Dedicated term project for learning how to use, model, and draw in Autodesk Revit. This project used John Hejduks wall house as a precedent.

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Year: 2024 Course: DES 450 Instructor: Roy Cloutier

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Formation From movement to model Year: 2023 Course: DES 202 - Form Instructor: Young-Tack Oh Team: Mira Chambers, Paul Zheng

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Letters From Above Graphite on paper Year: 2021

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Collar 01 Year: 2021

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Thank you for your time!

e: yippermj@shaw.ca p: (403) 801 - 2283