Matthew Geiger_Graduate_Portfolio

F O R u M

for.um

[fawr-uh m, fohr-uh m]

noun.

1. A place, meeting, or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.

matthew r. geiger

[[email protected]]

education.

1. State University of New York at Buffalo. Bachelor of Science in Architecture. 2009-2013.

2. North Carolina State University. Master’s of Architecture. 2013-2015.

The aim of this technology center, in Durham, North Carolina, was a building that encouraged collaboration between Durham residents and the technology center’s employees. This was ac-complished by a shift in the floor plan to distin-guish the private office spaces from the public circulation core. Important to the design was the program of the collaborative workshops. These two workshops were designed to bridge the atrium between the public circulation core and the private offices. These workshops could be used for seminars that employees of the technology center may offer to the public.

The context of Durham’s Center for Creative Technologies was one of historical importance. A typology exists along the blocks of downtown Durham where there is transparency along the ground floors of local businesses. On the floors above, historic brick and mortar contrasts the modern glazing below. The technology center mimics this typology by having a transparent ground floor. COR-TEN steel was used to bring together the public and private programs in a symbolic wrapping of the building. COR-TEN’s rusted finish represents the historic fabric of downtown Durham and serves as a striking con-trast to the building’s modern glazing and louvre system.

Durham Center for Creative TechnologiesARC 500 / comprehensive design studio / Professor Susan Cannon

Exploration of form. Concept Model. Material exploration. Section model.

Ground floor plan.Program / organization diagrams.

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First floor plan. Second floor plan. Fourth floor plan.Third floor plan.

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COR-TEN Steel with protective finish

Gravel

Wooden sun louvers

Drop Ceiling

Metal decking

Concrete slab

Aluminum mullions

Roofing membrane

Aluminum supports

Low-e double gazing

8” turn down concrete slab

Interior perspective.

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Perspective view of balcony level.

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This project’s goal was to activate a struggling Park Center in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park. The concept was for the insertion of a new parkscape which would reclaim the former IBM campus, introducing recreation and natural sys-tems into an armature of the existing buildings, seeding the unused infrastructure for dynamic spatial and programmatic opportunities.

Altering rings of program would invite the ‘park’ back into Park Center, revealing a new parkscape as dynamic as the next generation of research park workers. Seeded programs and hybrid natu-ral spaces would activate the intersections of the track and the existing framework of the former IBM campus.

Outdoor activity programs, like bike repair shops, rental shops, and an indoor/outdoor skate park support a parkscape that creates a new rec-reational experience for the Research Triangle Park workforce as well as Triangle community residents.

RE:use, RE:claim, RE:CREATE

Sketch of inserted parkscape on the IBM Campus.Conceptual collage of the parkscape.

ARC 503 / rtp reloaded design studio / Professor Petra Kempf

impermeable surfaces porous surfaces water surfaces solar surfaces

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activities

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IBM Campus Site Plan.

Diagrams of parkscape programs.

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IBM Campus Site Plan.

POOLS

PV CANOPY

BIKING, TRANSPORT

POROUS SURFACES

RECREATION ZONE

This project was an independent study to examine the potential of a Solar Decathlon in Buffalo, N.Y.

The idea was to design the home to ad-just for Buffalo’s frigid winters and warm summers. The project features an oper-able exterior envelope that closes over the house in the winter to create a thermal barrier and opens in the summer for cool-ing air flow. When the envelope opens it also creates a summertime entertainment area.

This concept of adapting throughout the seasons is also carried out through the floor plan. The two main walls of the house can move to allow for flexible floor space. By pushing both of them to one side an open floor space can be used for entertaining. The two walls also contain collapsible walls inside which when pulled out create offices and bedrooms.

Solar Decathlon Proposal

Performative section of envelope during winter. Performative section of envelope during summer.

ARC 404 / solar decathlon proposal / Professor Martha Bohm, Michael Floryan

Winter and summer plans.

Winter and summer plans.

Summer section.

This project required the research of a religion and the design of a complex for it in Raleigh, North Carolina. Looking at historical examples of mosques a concept was derived to use a systematic break down of a single 40’ x 40’ module based on program. The complex included a central prayer hall, classrooms, banquet space, and a market.

The idea was to have the program flow from public to spiritual. The market spaces allow the large Islamic community of Raleigh to have a community area on Fridays before and after prayers.

Classrooms were designed beneath the plinth which the prayer hall sits on. Large outdoor stairs transition the faithful to the outdoor ablution pool and into the prayer hall.

Raleigh Mosque Complex

Sketch of Friday market. Sketch of mosque.

ARC 503 / sacred architecture / Professor Thomas Barrie

NMECCASite plan.

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Interior render of the mosque.

The focus of ARC 442 was creating axonometric sections from the existing plans and sections of two built projects; The Menefee Cabin by Clark & Menefee Architects and The Kitsap County Admin-istration Building by Miller Hull Architects.

ARC 403 was a design studio which required a detailed section that not only highlighted the project’s materials and tectonics, but could also captured its concept.

The studio project was a mixed-used apartment complex intended for medical students in their residency. The pub-lic program was designed to meander throughout the entire building and create transparency between public and private program.

The apartments for the medical students are dormitory style in order to create an emphasis on the community rooms where students can cook, do laundry, or simply relax.

Technical Projects

ARC 442 / construction technologies / ARC 403 / design studio

Detail of Menefee Cabin exterior wall. Detail of Menefee Cabin chimney. Detail of Menefee Cabin floor construction.

Outline Specifications

1 Retaining Wall-Concrete Wall with Waterproofing-Vinyl-Faced, R-21 Batt Insulation-Drainage Mat, Protection Board and Membrane Waterproofing up to Grade @ Termination Bar-CIP Conc. Wall Per Plan -w/ Elastomeric Urethane Coating @ Int. Faces of Walls and Floor-Earth 0/ Full Drain Mat 0/ Protection Board 0/ Membrane Waterproofing 0/ CIP Concrete Wall-Trench Drain

2 Foundation-Alum. Window System-C.I.P. Conc Wall -Cont. Sealant Joint-Stone to Conc BYD-Termination Bar and Sealant @ WP-1/2” Expansion Material

3 Basement Slab-Termination Bar @ Grade @ Exposed Concrete Type-Filter Fabric 0/ min. 18” Free Draining Sand & Gravel-Expansion Joint Filler-Slab Per Structural 0/ Vapor Barrier 0/ min. 4” Sand & Gravel-Cont. Bentonite Waterspot @ Cold Joint-24” Perimeter Insulation (R-10)

Superstructure 4 Ground Level Slab-T.O. Mulch to Align w/-T.O. Cast-in Reveal-R-10 Rigid Insulation @ Perimeter-Composite Deck w/ Finish per Schedule-Stl. Beam w/ Sleeving for Electrical/Idf, Coord. w/ Mech & Elec.-Stl. Beam

5 First Floor Assembly-Sill Pan Flashing-3x3x3.25 Stl. Angle-Cont. Alum. Grille-Access Panel-Cont. Fine Tube Radiator on Support-Cont. Plenum Divider

6 Second Floor Assembly-Sill Pan Flashing-3x3x3.25 Stl. Angle-Cont. Alum. Grille-Access Panel-Cont. Fine Tube Radiator on Support-Cont. Plenum Divider

7 Ceiling Assembly

Drop Ceiling-3/4” Main Runner Channels-3/4“ Cross Furring Channels-Hanger Wire-Acoustic Ceiling Tile

Soffit Space-2x4 Metal Studs

8 External Wall-1/4” Stone Veneer

9 Roof-Concrete Beam-1/2” Chamfer Drip-Coping Type-3: Prefin Sheet Metal Fascia Cap-High Domed Gasketed Fastners-Mod Bitumen Roofing Membrane Flashingn-Tapered Insulation to Create Crikets per Plan (4” TPE at Perim.)-Cont Fire Resistive WD -Fire Resistive WD Nailer-Extend WP DN 6” min.-Cont. Galv. Cleat-Cont. Stl Angle -PTD-All Exposed Welds on Vert. Leg to be Ground Smooth -Flush w/ ADJ F.O. Stl; PTD. Cont. Weld to Roof Joist Below-Cont. Wed-Metal Sunscreen

wet walls

green roofputt putt

EXTERNIT panelseast + north facade

sun shading panels

polycarbonate panels

safety mesh

mechanical systemsair intake louversair handling unitmechanically ventilated basementexhaust louvers

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section cut

These two entertainment pavilion propos-als were for a potential client in Kuwait City. Both schemes feature large dinning / ballrooms on the ground levels and guest condos, spas, and work out facilities on the second levels.

The first scheme, Garden Wall, worked with arranging the required program along a large linear bar, defining the southern boundary of the client’s prop-erty. The second level features pools and gardens that connect the enclosed programs.

The second scheme, Cloud, played with the appearance of floating the second level’s program, clad in travertine, above the transparent dinning / ballrooms below.

My role for this project was construct-ing the Garden Wall scheme using Rhino 3D Modelling. I also helped with the 3D model for the Cloud scheme. Once both schemes were completed in Rhino they were sent to Luxigon to be rendered.

Conceptual diagram. Concept for Cloud scheme.Concept for Garden Wall scheme.

Alshaya Event Pavilion

Kenneth Hobgood Architects / Kenneth Hobogood, Patrick Hobgood, Paul Hobgood, Alan Tin, Chris Lacey, Luxigon Rendering

Garden Wall scheme exploded axonometric.

Cloud scheme exploded axonometric.

Acknowledgements:

Kenneth Hobgood

Patrick Hobgood

Paul Hobgood

Petra Kempf