MATT SKODAACADEMIC PORTFOLIO

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DIAMOND STREET RESIDENCE

OLD CITY BUILDING CENTER

LATIN HOUSE CULTURAL CENTER AND RESIDENCES

THE HORIZON

FRENCH QUARTER PUBLIC LIBRARY

WATERCOLORS + PHOTOGRAPHY

FALL 2010 PROFESSOR CORDULA ROSER-GRAY PG. 15-18

FALL 2010 PROFESSOR CORDULA ROSER-GRAY PG. 7-10

SPRING 2011 PROFESSOR GRAHAM OWEN PG. 11-14

SPRING 2011 PROFESSOR GRAHAM OWEN PG. 19-22

FALL 2011 PROFESSOR KENTARO TSUBAKI PG. 3-6

PG. 23-24

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FRENCH QUARTER PUBLIC LIBRARY

Located in the historic French Quarter in New Or-leans, this contemporary 50,000 square foot pub-lic library is situated on a unique L-shaped lot with street frontage on two streets. The program was split into two bars: “modern library” and “tradi-tional library” that are connected by bridges cut-ting through the courtyard. The main entrance to the library is through the courtyard. The facade treatment is layered to make a reference to the tra-ditional architecture of the neighborhood. The lou-vers surrounding the stacks are designed to block direct sunlight as well as control views to enhance the visual connectivity between the stacks, reading spaces, and exterior.

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1/16” = 1’ - 0” SECOND FLOOR PLAN 1/16” = 1’ - 0”5

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FLOOR PLANS3

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THIRD FLOOR PLAN 1/16” = 1’ - 0” FOURTH FLOOR PLAN 1/16” = 1’ - 0”

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TOULOUSE ELEVATION

TRANSVERSE SECTION

GNIREDNER SERTRAHCGNIREDNER ESUOLUOT

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FALL

2011

DETAIL SECTION

VIEW DIAGRAM

MASSING DIAGRAM

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OLD CITY BUILDING CENTERThe program is a warehoues, offices, mill shop, and classrooms for the Old City Building Center (O.C.B.C.), which is a non-profit company that salvages and repurposes old building materials. The design strategy was to think of the ware-house as something the materials pass through rather than occupy. This led to the building being pulled apart to create “holes” for the materials and people to pass through. Advantages of this design include a minimal footprint while utilizing a much larger space, optimal conditions for allow-ing natural light and ventilation into the space, and a consistent flow of circulation from space to space. When open for business, the “boxes” that hold the materials are opened to claim much of the surrounding space on the site. When the “boxes” are closed, the building occupies a mini-mal footprint on the site.

BOX TYPE 1 BOX TYPE 2 EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

MINIMAL FOOTPRINTOPTIMAL SPACE USAGE7

NSITE PLAN AND CIRCULATION

MASSING DIAGRAMS

SECTION AND LIGHT/WIND DIAGRAM

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INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

MODEL PHOTOS

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GRASSCRETE CONCRETE SLAB

ELEVATION

FLOOR PLANS

FALL

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LATIN HOUSE CULTURAL CENTER AND RESIDENCESLocated 6 blocks from Tulane University’s Cam-pus on the corner of intersecting residential and commercial streets, the Latin House contains scholar’s residences, a faculty apartment, library, and a gallery containing Meso-American arti-facts. The strategy used dealt with the interesting intersection of residential and commercial neigh-borhoods. The result was a dense “block” along the commercial street which contained the public components of the program. A less dense and more porous design, which contained the private components of the program, was used along the residential street. The public and private compo-nents were connected to each other by a circula-tion spline that cuts through both components of the program.

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STUDY / PROCESS MODELS

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SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

PROCESS / MASSING DIAGRAM

SONIAT (RESIDENTIAL) SECTION

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FRERET (COMMERCIAL) ELEVATION

SONIAT (RESIDENTIAL) ELEVATION

EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

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FLOOR PLANS

SPRING

2011

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DIAMOND STREET RESIDENCEThe site is a narrow 21’-6” x 115’ lot in the Warehouse District of New orleans, sharing its two long sides with warehouses. The program included a commercial space on the ground floor, with two residential com-ponents above: one for the owner of the store below, and one to be rented. There were two main challenges in this project: space planning with such a narrow site and allowing natural light into the space without having apertures on the two long party walls. The resultant strategy was that of three “light wells” that served to allow natural light into the building and as orga-nizing elements for the building.

PROGRAM DIAGRAM

LIGHT DIAGRAMS

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LONG SECTION

SCULPTING DIAGRAMS

EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

2ND FLOOR PLAN

3RD FLOOR PLAN

4TH FLOOR PLAN

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FALL

2010

SHORT SECTION

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

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THE HORIZON: LEADERSHIP TRAINING FACILITYLocated in Acadia National Park, Maine, “The Horizon” is an outdoor leadership training facil-ity for the National Outdoor Leadership School. The goal of the project was to create a facility for this program that was conducive to connecting the inhabitants with their surroundings and that appeared to blend into the landscape naturally. The program included 8 cabins for students and instructors, a meditation space, and a main house consisting of a dining hall, kitchen, office, classroom, bath house, and gear storage. The cabins were placed at the edge of the forest, each with its balcony poking out of the forest to allow a framed view of the ocean. The cabins would be made of wood construction to blend into the forest. The main house was embedded into the ground, with a more monolithic granite construc-tion. A square courtyard was carved out of the mainhouse. The meditation space, of the same dimension as the courtyard, was placed in the forest within earshot of a waterfall so that one might meditate with the visual experience of the forest, but have only the acoustic experience of the waterfall. MEDITATION SPACE PLAN

MEDITATION SPACE SECTION

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FORESTOCEAN

LOCATION PLAN

CABIN FACADE OPACITY

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MAIN HOUSE PLAN 1/8” = 1’ - 0”0 5

“FOREST TO OCEAN” SEQUENCE

CABIN PLAN

CABIN SECTION21

SPRING

2011

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SITE SECTION 1/32” = 1’ -0”

MAIN HOUSE SECTION 1/8” = 1’ - 0”10 20

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WATERCOLORS + PHOTOGRAPHY

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