Portfolio Vol 2

PORTFOLIOVol 2

SELECTED WORKS

BY MATTHEW

SLINGERLAND

CHAPTERS

CHAMONIX

THESE THINGS ARE FREE

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DOUBLE LOADED

BLEAK HOUSE

ZEITGEIST FACTORY

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WUNDERKAMMER

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INTERIOR RENDER

504RESIDENCE

This project is a highly rated structure in

the historic district of downtown Telluride,

Colorado. With the integrity of the

Victorian exterior preserved, the interior

spaces have been vaulted and opened to

a clean, modern sensibility, allowing light

to fill the small cabin. A white oak wood

finish is juxtaposed with the texture of a

historic wood feature wall and the contrast

of dark, lacy mill finished trusses that run

down the main gable.

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WITH NARCIS TUDOR ARCHITECTS

N-S SECTION

LEVEL O1

RAIL CONCEPT

COUNTER DETAIL

COUNTER PROFILE

TRUSS CONCEPT

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INTERIOR RENDER

DINING / HISTORIC MASTER BATH WALL

07MASTER SUITE / MATERIAL WRAP

STEEL PARTITION WALL

RAIL / PONY WALL DETAIL

MASTER BATH

DOUBLELOADED

SITE PLAN

IN COLLABORATION WITH THOM AFFELDT

In this comprehensive studio, we were asked

to design housing for a diverse group of

socioeconomic classes. Our site, known as PD-5,

is located in Chicago. This is the former site of

the infamous Cabrini-Green. By tearing down

this complex of housing, the city lost 1,000

units of housing for their residence. Therefore,

we were asked to provide for close to 1,000

residence, as well as addressing the park and

school that already exist on the site.

The implementation of a large scale perimeter

condition was an attempt to invert the Chicago

skyscraper typology. The perimeter of the

project was designed as a porous membrane

that responds to light, views, and movement.

The density of units required by the brief and

the desire to provide public green space to the

surrounding communities, led to the design

of a nested, double-loaded corridor condition

around the perimeter of the site. Between the

double-loaded corridor on the exterior and

the single loaded corridor on the interior, a

linear park was designed as the connecting

street for the residences. The linear park also

acted as the membrane connecting the various

programmatic elements together (resident

entrances, office spaces, commercial spaces,

farmers market, park space, etc.)

DOUBLELOADED

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WALL SECTION

UNIT PLANS

COMPOSITE SECTION / FORM DIAGRAM

LEVEL/UNIT DIAGRAM

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COMPOSITE SECTION / PROGRAM / EXT. FACADE / INT. ORGANIZATION / STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM

CONTINUED

WORMS-EYE SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

PERSPECTIVE FROM TOWER

LINEAR PARK PERSPECTIVE

INTERIOR KITCHEN PERSPECTIVE

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BLEAKHOUSE


Built before 1904, this house is one of the last

remaining Main Street structures of Telluride’s

Victorian mining era. Bleak House is now a full

historic restoration with a utilitarian, stylistically

mill addition connected by a light hall/link in the

back. The link is an architectural element used to

embellish the division between what is historic

and what is new. Bleak House has a soul. Echoing

Charles Dickens’ novel of the same era, Bleak

House continues to tell its own story.

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EXTERIOR HISTORIC / ADDITION PERSPECTIVE

LEVEL 00 & 01 & 02

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1 media / rec room2 bedroom 33 bunkroom 44 living5 kitchen6 dining7 garage8 master suite9 master bath10 suite 2

HISTORIC EXTERIOR

In a global society of “Google, Wikipedia, and

Twitter” the access to knowledge, around the

world, can no longer be an issue. Unlimited

access has born a more insatiable crisis, the

organization of knowledge. “Zeitgeist Factory,”

a project focused on the exploration of how

designers navigate and understand networks

of information, enlists “relational thinking” as

a mechanism for cultivating, participating, and

ultimately registering the spirit and knowledge

of today’s culture.

This imaginative project uses the Pantheon,

with its classical understanding of knowledge,

as an organization or black box for the project.

This site becomes the hub for translations of

networked thinking into a new understanding/

creation of space, as Zeitgeist Factory begins to

unmake its classical order based on the currents

of today’s social information. The typewriter,

an analogous mechanism to the Pantheon, is

used as a catalyst for the project by utilizing its

inherent structure, the abecedarium, as a way to

cultivate and order issues of today’s culture.

AUDIO: WIFI, HUB, HO*EYBEE, VIRTUAL, DEMATERIALIZATIO*, RADIAL, PA*THEO*, FLIGHT PATTER*, HIVE, DA*CE,

COMMU*ICATION. BALLISTIC: FLIGHT, GRAVITY, ATMOSPHERE, MASS, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, WEATHER. CHARLOTTE:

SOCIAL *ETWORK, BINARY, FACEBOOK, ‘CATFISH.’ DEITY: 22, RELIGIO*, GODS OF CULTURE, CULTIVATOR, IDOL, GOLD.

EDI*BURGH: BLACK BOX, PROPHET, OSTRADAMUS, CATASTROPHE, RECORDI*G DEVICE, BI*ARY. FRESH: TREND, WATER,

FASHIO*N, DESALI*ATIO*, POP, I*DIVIDUALITY, OIL SPILL, CO*SUMERISM, BP, RADIOACTIVE SPILL, JAPAN. GE*OCIDE:

TECH*OLOGY, ETH*IC, OUTMODED, CO*CE*TRATIO* CAMP, BURIAL GROU*D, FUR*ACE, TOXIC, CHI*A. HYDROGE*: ELEME*T,

WATER, PERIODIC TABLE, SEA LEVEL, ATOM, FRESH WATER, HEAVY, DESALI*ATIO*, *UCLEAR FUSSIO*. JUPITER: PLA*ET,

KI*G OF GODS, HOUSE OF GODS, PA*THEO*, GOD OF THU*DER, ATMOSPHERE, LIGHT*I*G, E*ERGY HARVEST, ASTRO*OMY,

ORBIT, GRAVITY, MASS. KI*ETIC CITY: CRUISE, TRA*SPORTATIO*, SEA, CAR, FLUID, FORD, POLITICAL BOU*DARY, WW2,

AMUSEME*T, EISE*HOWER, ESCAPE, SPRAWL, DECE*TRALIZATIO*. LEXICO*: RELATIO*AL THI*KI*G, *ETWORK, GOOGLE,

BROADE*, CO*CATE*ATE. MADOFF: DECEPTIVE ECO*OMICS, JOEL OSTEE*, CALIFOR*IA, RELIGIO*, LEVERAGE. N

* = N (NOSTALGIA, THE FOIL TO ZEITGEIST)

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THESISZEITGEISTFACTORY

A Note: My thesis exploration was by no means futile, but rather unattainable. What is the architectural/spatial organization for a culture that is more global that it has ever been?...not to mention moving faster than the speed of light. Information is sent, received, stored and discarded with the press of a button.

Nevertheless, the adventure was epic.

Peter Eisenman argues (excuse me while I paraphrase) thesis has no agency for students at our level of education, due to the fact that we do not know enough of the discipline to have a statement about the discipline. While in many ways I agree with him, I would submit that the value in thesis is not at all about our understanding or knowledge of the discipline. The value is in the exploration itself. With a hyper-condensed search, focus, and effort, thesis becomes a vast and irreplaceable learning experience. Four years removed, I still find myself digesting, speculating, and rehearsing my thesis experience. We do not know much about the discipline, I agree...that takes a lifetime. There is time for that.

TYPEWRITER SITE ANALYSIS DETAIL

With regard to its translational

capacities, I understand the

typewriter as 4 recording devices:

The keys: record through

frequency of use. You can

understand how often a key has

been used, with respect to the

others, because of the residues

left from the touch of a finger.

The ink strip: is the purest record

of what has been written. It moves

one space as each key has been

pressed, so if you want to strike

a letter you have already written,

the ink strip will record the strike

after the letter being struck.

The paper: is the most legible

and temporary of the recording

devices. It is a projection of ideas

that implies a single voice.

The platen: theoretically registers

everything that has ever been

written on this typewriter. It

implies multiple voices, conflating

ideas and it produces possibilities

for new reads.

TYPEWRITER SITE ANALYSIS

With respect to the typewriter, the Zeitgeist factory utilizes the abecedarium, which is an

organization of things from a-z, as a structure for understanding culture. Each letter is translated

as a machine, I’m calling a cultivator, which goes out and records specific aspects of culture and

returns to the factory to deliver and register that information, making the factory a house of

cultural knowledge. To name a few:

C is for Charlotte: referring to Charlotte’s web, C is interested in the weaving of connections and

interactions we have through the use of social networking sites like facebook and twitter.

E is for Edinburgh: this cultivator has a specific site; it goes to the basement of a library in

Edinburgh, where there is a black box that predicts catastrophes. The black box constantly spits

out a series of random numbers. When there is about to be a catastrophic event, the numbers

begin to make sense. (It predicted 9/11 and the Indian Tsunami)

S is for Stowaway: S goes into the ballasts of ships and tracks the movement or transportation

of invasive fish.

This drawing began as the a list or index of culture form a-z, and by enlisting “relational

thinking,” the list grew out to become more like a cloud structure. An example of this:

Y is for Yellow: The word yellow can relate to Beowulf. (the first recorded use of the word yellow

in the English language appeared in Beowulf) This can relationship can then branch out into

mythologies and fictions, which opens up many other possibilities.

Another branch from yellow can move into Journalism. (yellow is a type of journalism that uses

eye-catching headlines with little research to sell papers) This might move into techniques of

writing or commodities of capitalism.

NETWORK CLOUD WITH LEXICON OF MARKS AND PATHS OF RELATIONAL MOVEMENT

SPATIAL INDEXING IN PLAN

UNMAKING THE PANTHEON IN SECTION

As each of the cultivators are activated, they produce a

residue or mark that registers their frequency of use. Due

to how often they are activated and their proximity within

the factory, they begin to influence each other. This creates

new interests in culture and relationships with one another,

which also begin to change their location within the

factory. As they change position, their residues begin to

transform depending on the proximity of other cultivators.

In the same way that the Abecedarium serves as a

structure for seemingly disparate things, for this project

the Pantheon serves on one level, a specific kind of

understanding and order of knowledge, and on the other

a structure to allow these cultivators to exist with one

another. Through the cultivators residue, they begin to

unmake the Pantheon and its order of knowledge.

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COMPOSITE DRAWING OF NETWORK CLOUD, LEXICON OF MARKS, PATHS OF RELATIONAL MOVEMENT, SPATIAL INDEXING IN PLAN AND SECTION

NETWORK CLOUD WITH LEXICON OF MARKS AND PATHS OF RELATIONAL MOVEMENT DETAIL

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SPATIAL INDEXING IN PLAN DETAIL

UNMAKING THE PLAN IN SECTION DETAIL

AUDIOPHILE MODEL / CUT SHEETS

SITE MODEL/VIEWS OF THE CULTIVATORS SITUATED IN BLACK-BOX TERRITORY

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AUDIOPHILE MODEL

THIS CONSTRUCT, ANALOGOUS TO

A BLACK BOX (AN INFRASTRUCTURE THAT HOLDS ALL

INFORMATION AND INNER WORKINGS

WITHIN), SERVES AS A TERRITORY TO SITUATE

THE CULTIVATORS. THE BENDS IN THE

BOX ALLUDE TO THE EFFECT THESE

CULTIVATORS HAVE ON INFRASTRUCTURE AS

THEIR RESIDUES BEGIN TO SPATIALLY INDEX

THE INFORMATION THEY ARE CULTIVATING.

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Located on a steep, heavily wooded site, the

house embraces the natural topography by un-

winding through the trees. The use of glass and

steel allow the interior spaces to spill out into

the exterior, blending the distinctions between

dwelling and nature.

E-W SECTION

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LEVEL 01 & 02

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WUNDER-KAMMER

CABINET OF CURIOUSITY MONTAGE

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WUNDER-KAMMER

This study begins with a

precedent, Le Corbusier’s Palace

of Assembly in India. Principles

of this building are reduced to

their essential elements. They are

then manipulated through the

principles of organization held by

a Cabinet of Curiosity, creating a

new understanding of organization.

The Cabinet is constructed using

these reinterpretations, a material

language, and the root ideals of

curiosity. The design tenets created

in the Cabinet are realized at

various scales when applied to the

site, the building, and the gallery

display within.

PALACE OF ASSEMBLY PLAN / LE CORBUSIER ORGANIZATIONAL STUDY

APPROPRIATION DIAGRAM OF ORGANIZATION

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MUSEUM OF CURIOSITY BUILDING 3 LEVEL 2

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CHAMONIX

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Enlisting the design efficiency of a yacht, the

small size of this condo drives the design

focus to natural light and unobstructed

views through the space. The use of an open

tread stair and hanging loft help heighten

the perceived scale of the space, while also

allowing access to natural light from all areas

of the condo.


LOFT LEVEL

MAIN LEVEL

53N-S SECTION

LOFT ASSEMBLY

RAIL PLAN

RAIL SECTION

CAB CONNECTION

INTERIOR RENDER

LOFT STRUCTURE / CONNECTION DETAILS / GUARD RAIL DETAIL

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DANGER BOX: CONCEPTUAL MODEL

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DANGER BOX: PHYSICAL MODEL

DANGER BOX: CONCEPTUAL MODEL

TYPEWRITER: MECHANICAL DRAWING

POTENTIAL: SITE DIAGRAM

LINES , SYMBOLS, NOTES, AND OTHER MARKS

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