Recent Projects | Matt Kohman

matt kohman recent projects

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common assets

a dreary day for a timber skyscraper

Education

Masters of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Class of 2021 Bachelors of Environmental Design, Texas A&M University Class of 2015

Working for others

Michael Hsu Office of Architecture, 2016-2018, Project Designer.

Key projects: The Line Hotel Austin, Gowda Residence, Shake Shack UTC. Reference: Maija Kreishman, Partner, kreishman@hsuoffice.com Studio Roland Snooks, 2015-2016, Designer & Teaching Assistant Key projects: NGV Gallery pavilion, Hawthorn Public Art, Full Blown Reference: Roland Snooks, principal, roland@kokkugia.com

Self organized projects

Visualization Services, 2018- , Principal Visualization studio producing images and videos for award winning architects.

Key projects: M-K-T Houston, Sentosa Masterplan, Tiny House Design Build, 2018-2020, Designer and Laborer A self build, self financed, summer side project and our current home.

Penn Praxis Design Fellow, 2020Stages of Learning Public Art Research and Design Work

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Academic positions

Teaching Assistant, 2020First Year Graduate Studio Teaching Assistant for Eduardo Rega Reference: Eduardo Rega, Lecturer UPenn, erega@design.upenn.edu Proficiencies

Modeling/Drawing Rhino, Sketchup, Grasshopper, Revit, Zbrush, Maya, Autocad, Bad Miro Sketches Representation

Vray, Photoshop, Enscape, Indesign, Illustrator, After Effects, Keyshot Physical

Light Frame Construction, 3d printing, Model Making, Woodworking

Recent Awards

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The Atkin Fellowship Towards the Study of Place E. Lewis Dales Traveling Fellowship For Portfolio Submission Frank Miles Day Memorial Prize Top Essay in a Theory Course HOK Futures Competition 2020: 3rd place, for Common Assets

Shenk Woodman Competition 2019: 1st Place for Adaptive Access Weitzman School Top Merit Scholarship All Years.

Pressing Matters Published Projects: All Years.

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index Postured Natures

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Deep Textures and Social Living

Maters of Disposal

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Representing Others

A Very Small House

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Strays and Leftovers

Common Assets

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Cooperative for Building Components

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Postured Natures oscillates in a building/ecology paradigm Matters of Disposal fills empty monuments Cooperative for Building Components is a near opposite to Deep Textures and Social Living Common Assets synthesizes competing ideas A Very Small House re-institutes the architect craftsperson Adaptive Access, Manayunk’s Underline plays with urban infrastructure

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Representing Others considers the power of image.

Strays and Leftovers wallows in the discourse

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Postured Natures oscillates in a building/ecology paradigm considering non-human agency

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in the context of performance

postured natures (2020) collaboration with Paul Germaine McCoy Instructor: Simon Kim The project is a set up of three ideas that construct a palpable speculation of a new conservatory and performing arts center for Socrates Park in Queens: Posture as a means to engage the site’s ground condition and natural poche. Wood as a technique to exhaust structural specificity and aesthetic affect.

Enfilade as a strategy to sequence experience between the wild and the curated.

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Legend A. Twins Theater B. House of the Bookkeepers C. Thornless Theater D. Undergrowth Theater E. Convervatory F. Tickleish Theater G. A Restaurant Floating Away

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(top) The ensemble of theatrical and conservatory spaces imply the ephemeral qualities of a changing shoreline and program development of Socrates Park, while the nine square grid is used to challenge the linear sequence of the theater program typology. (right) The project nests itself in a copse of trees, recomposing existing greenery as a means of oscillating between the curated and the wild while maintaining all existing public space on site.

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postured section

We drew a series of rooms that could touch, teeter, or slip away with deep implications on performance and the temporal quality of space.

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partition schedule

A partition schedule gives the postures unique characters that react to one another and their surrounding. Laminar shingles curl in the humidity. Integrated gutters shed water or redirect it into the interior.

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planting details

Planting Details highlight the transmuting of existing context and engage in a postured ungrounding.

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chonk detail

Chonk is a drawing that considers objectness, and part-ness over whole. An unfolded sequence of section, detail, plan, and elevation.

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enfilade

(top) Enfilade is reconsidered through obfuscating spacial continuity and depth. Architecture is furred out to accept roots while vines erode its joints (right) A sunken theater redirects performance upward towards vines and roots in the conservatory above.

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textural vs spacial

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Matters of Disposal considers empty monuments

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and the consumptive objects that make and fill a city

matters of disposal (2020) collaborative with Paul Germaine McCoy Instructor: Ferda Kolatan & Caleb Ehly Humans are just a tiny portion of all material objects that make and fill the city.

Engaging a paradigm of empty architecture within New York’s Trinity Center, Matters of Disposal reimagines this Neo-Gothic monument to speculative real estate as a conservatory for objects no longer in use, institutionalizing object value beyond hyper-consumptive capitalism. In the era of COVID-19

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Trinity Center Qualities

The conservatory operates through a hybrid of an object distribution system and Neo-Gothic surface articulations that alter the conceptual and material edges between three actants: the human, the building, and the object.

The latent edges of this new monument engage the calling power of objects, their edges and their stylistic representations, to implicate that discarded value is the contemporary condition. The human, the object, and the building are valorized as assets released from the hyper consumptive ecology that occupies the city.

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roof garden

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hybrid elevation and chutes

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alley entrance

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roof garden

Humans and returned objects meet at the roof garden. Strange edges emerge as they stroll , their walkways co-mingling as potential latent matter further flattens object-human relations.

In the lower level of the garden, the actants may prolong their visit and become a part of the permanent collection, displayed in the vitrine to the neighboring buildings

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edges

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lawyers club

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chonk

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A Very Small House Reframes the architect as laborer and craftsperson Removes excesses

Project Overview

Considers alternate modes of density

a very small house (2019 -2020 ), colaboration with Starla Schmidt A self build, self financed, side project operating out of grandma’s backyard. This 250 sqft house on wheels reconsiders the often compartmentalized spaces of the tiny house typology under a double curved corrugated metal roof. By anchoring both ends of the trailer with program (bath and kitchen) a generous living space opens up with direct connection to the adjacent loft. The exterior is clad in reclaimed cedar and white corrugated metal.

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a very small house

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ROOF LVL 11' - 6"

LVL 2 7' - 3"

LVL 1 0' - 4 1/4" T.O.S. 0' - 0" GROUND LEVEL -1' - 8"

Longitudinal Elevation

EXTERIOR ELEVATION - NORTH 3/8" = 1'-0"

Very Small Elevations

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ROOF LVL 11' - 6"

LVL 2 7' - 3"

LVL 1 0' - 4 1/4" T.O.S. 0' - 0" GROUND LEVEL -1' - 8"

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EXTERIOR ELEVATION - WEST 3/8" = 1'-0"

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Transverse Elevation

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EXTERIOR ELEVATION - EAST 3/8" = 1'-0"

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In Progress

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In Season

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Common Assets synthesizes competing ideas The typology of a hyper-speculative pencil tower

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undermined as a public asset

common assets (2020) collaboration with Paul Germaine McCoy HOK Futures Competition An asset tower in Old City that reconfigures its private-public relationship and misreads familiar typology to optimistically re-imagine a Philadelphian Market Street wiser with age.

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elevation

The site’s “missing corner� is designed in the lineage of the old Gimbels department store through the reappropriation of familiar facades made strange by a contemporary paradigm of program, construction, and surface quality.

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site plan

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6 - Kiosk Cooridor 7 - Lobby 8 - Service 9 - Loading Dock 10 -Parking Access

market plan

1 - Portico 2 - Entry Node 3 - Storefront 4 - Anchor Restaurant 5 - Skylight Zone

Rising above, a mass timber tower reframes the luxury pencil typology as an urban asset interlaced with public floors, a plausible fantasy made tactile and functional for the future of Philadelphia.

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Cooperative for Building Components is bottom up, guerrilla architecture.

Operating in rigorous optimism

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towards a more equitable socio-spacial landscape

cooperative for building components (2019) Instructor: Eduardo Rega The Cooperative for Building Components produces architectural assemblies in partnership with grassroots organizations as physical experiments of alternative modes of land ownership and economic development throughout the city. Design sequence as follows.

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1. Grassroots Organizations Actor Network Research 2. Socio-Political Site Research 3. Commonspoly Hack and Play for Generative Outcomes 4. Temporal Proposals for alternative economic modalities and political optimisms.

a game

a proposal

commonspoly game and project book

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Existing organizational infrastructure informing programmatic considerations and providing funding through municipal grants towards.

Organizational economic structure and hierarchies for WCRP, Youth United for Change, Vision 2020, and Greenspace.

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Festival deployment throughout city on vacant lands 1

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Successful festival facilitates communal ownership and activation of vacant lands as proof of concept.

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building component generator

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Organizations aggregate and unify under the cooperative land trust framework as a generator for urban components.

Commonspoly precedent studies for spacial tactics and programmatic integration.

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Cooperative Land Trust established, optimizing generation of components for broader network

Cooperative Land Trust established, optimizing generation of components for broader network

Components deployed on mass transport to vacant lands locally and regionally

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A building component generator (Actor Network) The cooperatives for building components partners and architecturally activates grassroots organizations as a generator for common owned community models integrating spacial tactics and grassroots organizing to establish a temporary occupation, festival and strategy for sustainable development in Manayunk, Pa

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Architecture’s Political Autonomy: Commoning Manayunk | Rega Studio | PennDesign | Spring 2019

MATT KOHMAN | QIYUAN CAO

Architecture’s Political Autonomy: Commoning Manayunk | Rega Studio | PennDesign | Spring 2019

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MATT KOHMAN | QIYUAN CAO

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PROFILE PROGRAMS PROFILE PROGRAMS 1 Housing Profile

1 Housing Profile

2 Farming Profile

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walls and profiles

3 Component Profiles Vertical Generator Produces Vertical Generator Produces Component Profiles

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(above) The phase 1 building yard is arranged as a walled urbanity in the legacy of Aldo Rossi’s Locomotiva and Dogma Studio’s ‘A Simple Heart,’ an isolationist strategy to incubate new urban operatives. However the wall in Cooperative for Building Components engages porously to erode barriers in the urban condition creating an accessible building yard operating in production and as a park.

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(right) Building components are produced with active form and programmatic needs based on hybridized typological profiles which can be assembled and arranged in tactical strategies related to site and socio-political condition.

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the cooperative

(top) Detail of The Cooperative for Building Components after year five.

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(right) Through a process of ad hoc fabrication and guerrilla construction practices, the site becomes a building yard producing component profiles that can be assembled and deployed in a variety of spacial and programmatic relationships as required.

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Deep Textures is top down architecture within a formal paradigm engaging reuse, history and socio-spacial implications,

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color and lots of stairs

deep texture and social living (2019) This innovative housing reuse of the lower east side’s Sunshine Theater considers novel spacial and programmatic organizations through an embedding and layering of urban textures. These spacial continuities explore messy, emergent housing conditions from multi-generational arrangements to couch surfing culture and aim to capture and expand on the textural qualities of an area in transition from an artistic neighborhood to one of commerce.

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Homes for the Lower East Site Sunshine Theater Adaptive Reuse.

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Homes for the Lower East Site Sunshine Theater Adaptive Reuse.

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unit floor plans

7th Floor Plan

Singe Unit Plan

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Nested Unit Plan

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(top) Spacial textures as shared patios with exterior stairs. (left) Upper floor housing is organized as semi-detached Miesian units connected in enfilade through a sequence of circulatory seams which create deep, spacial pockets within the structure.

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public floor plans

Ground Floor Plan

(right) Counter to typical on site strategies of juxtaposing new and old, the Sunshine Theater’s iconic facade is preserved by embedding it into the primary floor public volume, carving out a plaza/performative space to engage adjacent Houston st.

The plaza builds a continuous circulation system that extends through the ground floor amenities to each home. (adjacent) Site Plan

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entrance

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view to the lower east side

(top) Unit view of the lower east side. (right) Public plaza with continuous circulation to public amenities

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Representing Others how image is agency often squandered

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image making in the weeds

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The (semi) professional production of architectural imagery affords a rare creative autonomy from conception to completion, while simultaneously being furiously entangled in a multiplicity of actors, interests, and market forces difficult to overcome. These images build idyllic imaginaries and can be seen as a bell-weather for the condition and objectives of architectural practice, speculation, and cultural production.

Pushed beyond purely consumptive exercises, and inviting deeper readings, perhaps the agency of image can be can move beyond its more carnal uses.

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images

sisters overlook for Logan Architecture

p6 for Michael Hsu

representing others

mkt for Michael Hsu

buffalo speedway for Michael Hsu

ngv pavilion for Studio Roland Snooks

cielo for Michael Hsu

untitled project for Chioco Design

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sisters overlook for Logan Architecture

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cliff house for Michael Hsu

sentosa masterplan Grant Associates

representing others

untitled masterplan for Grant Associates

ikon 3d printed plan for Logan Architecture

cielo for Michael Hsu

untitled for Chioco Design

katy trail for Michael Hsu

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mkt for Michael Hsu

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competition proposal

strays and leftovers (2019) collaboration with Cathy Youn, Levi Faber A pop up infrastructure that turns a bridge into rooms

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slippages, gems, and rose windows slippages, gems, and rose windowst

strays and leftovers (top) slippages, gems, and rose windows (right) just another artifact in the kolumba museum

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strays and leftovers (2018-2019) Drawings and visual exercises, wallowing in the discourse. (top) a research center in a ruin (right) profile mapping as formal entanglement

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