tim matthews architecture portfolio

Contact Details

Matt HayesCurrent EmployerLee Evans PartnershipPartnermatt.hayes@lee-evans.co.uk

3 The Maltings, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7DQ

07425 175 645

timmatthews91@hotmail.com

Jef SmithDesign TutorUniversity of Kentjef@meldarchitecture.com

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Employment HistoryMay 2013-presentLee Evans Partnership Part 1 Architectural Assistant

April-May 2013Studio Reed Architectural Assistant

February 2013Hockley Primary School Landscape Design

October 2012-January 2013Invisible Structures Design Assistant

September 2010/2011/2012SEEVIC College Enrolment Assistant

April 2011/2012Rochford District Council Poll Clerk

September 2008/February 2009E&M Designs Architectural Assistant

Voluntary WorkSeptember 2011Kent Union Welcome Week Helper

May/June 2011/2012 Kent School of Architecture KSA End of Year Show

Competitions

Kent School of Architecture KASA Pavilion 2012

Education 2009-2012BA (Hons) ArchitectureUniversity of Kent, Canterbury2:1

2007-2009A LevelsSEEVIC College, Benfleet, EssexFine Art (B), History (C), English Literature (C)AS Level - Law (C)

2002-2007GCSEsThe FitzWimarc School, Rayleigh, Essex12 A*-C Grade GCSEs

AchievementsRoyal Parks Half Marathon, October 2014

Lily’s Day Charity Cycle Event, May 2014, raising awareness of Ataxia-Telangiectasia

Silverstone Half Marathon, March 2013, running for Orchid Male Cancer Charity

Co-founder of Architecture FCKent Amateur Football League2010-2012

Tennis CaptainHockley Lawn Tennis Club2005-2011

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modular19-24

landscape 25-28

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Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Sixth Form Centre, Faversham, Kent. The building was built to replace unsuitable temporary building, that were built in the 1980’s and had never been indended to be used as a long term solution to the schools accomodation needs. The new building includes 8 classrooms, offices, a common room designed to hold 60 people and a learning resource centre designed to hold in excess of 100 people. The Budget for the building was £1.8 million, with the school contributing £800,000 from their own fundraising efforts, and the remaining £1 million coming from a successful Academies Capital Maintainance Fund bid lodged in 2012. My primary role on this project involved helping to produce the majority of the construction drawings.

Phase 2. Whilst the Sixth Form centre was under construction, the school decided they wanted to apply for funding for 240 seat lecture theature, once again through the Academies Capital Maintainance Funding scheme. The proposed design gained planning permission in late 2013 and the cost of the project was estimated at being £795,000. However, the funding bid was unsuccessful so the proposed scheme was put to one side until finances could be raised by other means. My role on this project was to produce visuals for the client and all the planning drawings.

Media used - SketchUp, Mental Ray, Photoshop, AutoCAD

Wall Types Plan

Aerial View of Proposed Lecture Theatre Extension to Sixth Form Centre

Elevation of Proposed Lecture Theatre Extension to Sixth Form Centre

Rear View of Proposed Lecture Theatre Extension to Sixth Form Centre

Finished Feature Staircase,

Finished Front Elevation

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Mascalls School, New Teaching Block, Paddock Wood, Kent. The new teaching block was built as a result of a successful Academies Capital Maintenance Fund bid providing 1100m² of teaching space in the form of 8 classrooms. The building also plays host to the schools new main entrance as well as 2 offices, and an events room. The budget for the build was £3.26 million, half of which was raised by the school itself, and the remaining money was provided by the ACMF. My role on this project was to produce construction drawings as well as to do the interior design scheme for the entire building.

Refurbishment of Block A. The new teaching block was built as an extension the existing Block A building, and whilst under construction, the school decided that they would like to refurbish this adjoinning building to bring it up to modern day standards. This refurbishment of the two storey building would include a new drama hall to be used for productions as well as teaching, multiple new teaching and office spaces and state of the art kitchen facilities.

Media used - SketchUp, Photoshop, AutoCAD

Proposed Ground and First Floor Plans for the Refurbishment of Existing Classroom Block

Mascalls School, Classroom Proposal, Paddock Wood, Kent

Interior Design Proposal

Exterior Visual of Proposed Classroom Block Proposed Section for the Refurbished of Existing Classroom Block

Atrium Proposal

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University of Kent Cycle Hire Centre, Canterbury, Kent. Proposed facility to provide a bike hire service on the university campus. The scheme is to include bike storage, a workshop and a cleaning station and is part of a larger proposal for new sporting facilities at the university with the main feature being a new 3G football pitch. My role in this scheme was to take rudimental sketch plans and elevations and produce a set of planning drawings and visuals of the proposal.

High Weald Academy, Sports Hall and Changing Facilities Refurbishment, Cranbrook, Kent. The existing changing facilities and sports hall were in desperate need of updating and bringing up to modern day standards, so the school submitted and were successful in gaining £1.75 million grant from the Academies Capital Maintenance Fund. With this, the sports hall was stripeed back to its structural frame and completely reclad, and all of the changing facilities were given an overhaul. My role in this project was to come up with the interior design proposal for the scheme.

Media used - SketchUp, Photoshop

University of Kent Cycle Hire Centre, Canterbury, Kent

University of Kent Cycle Hire Centre, Canterbury, Kent

Elevation of Cycle Hire Centre, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent

Interior Design Proposal, High Weald Academy, Cranbrook, Kent

Changing Room Proposal, High Weald Academy, Cranbrook, Kent

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St Martin’s Hosital Development, Canterbury, Kent. Scheme produced for the NHS to add value to a site they are selling. Proposed scheme is to remove all but the original Victorian portion of the hospital and replace with housing in a variety of types and densities, with the aim of gaining planning permission before selling on. My role was to produce visuals for the scheme that were used in the competition presentation that won our company the project.

Russel Court, Dementia Care Home, Longfield, Kent. Proposed scheme for a high dependancy dementia care home for Billings Group. The design for the scheme is based on research about the condition and it allows the patients to wander freely around the courtyarded building without the danger of getting lost and causing distress. The scheme gained planning permission in November 2014. My role in this proposal was to produce a SketchUp model to help with the development of the design, and produce drawings to become part of the successful planning application submission.

Media used - SketchUp, Photoshop, AutoCAD, InDesign

Elevation of Russel Court Dementia Care Home

Visual of Housing Zones of St Martin’s Hospital SiteMasterplan of St Martin’s Hospital Site, with proposed layout of housing and Housing Zones

6Chartham Paper Mill Development, Chartham, Kent. Proposed masterplan for a housing development to be built on land owned by the Chartham Paper Mill. Currently, the land is largely made up of derelect cottages and scrub land, and is intersected by the River Stour in three places, which brings with it a flood risk which has had to be considered in the design. My role in this scheme was to help produce presentation drawings to be used to present to the client.

Leggets Lane, Whitstable, Kent. Housing development containing 5 dwellings on a small site on Sea Street in Whitstable. The project is part of a larger scheme involving a site opposite in which there is a proposal for a large mixed use building with a prominant position on the seafront.

Media used - Photoshop, SketchUp, InDesign

View from the west of proposed building. View from the rear of proposed building.

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View from the North of proposed building.

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View from the west of proposed building. View from the rear of proposed building.

Number 1 Leggetts Lane

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View from the North of proposed building.

SEA STREET

Proposal for an apartment block, Sea Street, Whitstable Elevation of Leggetts Lane Project, Sea Street, Whitstable

Master Plan of Chartham Paper Mill Development, Chartham

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St Mary’s Church, Worthing, West Sussex. Proposed scheme for an extension to the south side of St Mary’s Church, to include a large meeting room, which have potential to be partitioned off into smaller group rooms, a creche, and new kitchen and WC facilities. The orginal proposal for an extension to the building on the north side of the church, which would give the scheme more of a presence on the front of the building, was rejected by English Heritage despite stong support from the clients. Therefore the scheme to the south, which was the preference of English Hertiage, was developed. My role in this project was to produce visuals for all the key meetings for this project, both of the northern and southern extensions, build 3D printed models so the committees involved could gain a better understanding of the general massing of the proposals, and to sit in design meetings with the conservation team to help in the development the southern extention.

Gillingham Baptist Church, Kent. Proposal for a new entrance lobby to the Victorain Baptist church in Gillingham. My role in this scheme was to produce SketchUp models throughout the development of the design, and to also create visuals of the interior spaces for presentations to the clients.

Media used - SketchUp, Photoshop, 3D Printed Model

Broadwater ChurchAerial View of Southern Extension from South East

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Broadwater ChurchView of Southern Extension from East

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Gillingham Baptist Church, Ground Floor Reception View

Gillingham Baptist Church, Ground Floor Reception View

Gillingham Baptist Church, First Floor Extension ViewSt Mary’s Church, 3D Printed Model

St Mary’s Church, External Visual of Proposed Southern Extension

St Mary’s Church, Aeral View of Proposed Southern Extension

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3D printer. In June 2014, the company purchased a Makerbot Replicator 2 as a first step into the world of 3D printing, with the ambition of using it to print development models for schemes, which would give the client and design team additional insight into projects. As a keen model maker, I put myself forward to be a supervisor of the machine alongside one of the Architectural Technitions. Together, we went about experimenting with how to produce the models to the best standards possible and we surpassed our expectations of the machine within a couple of months. We found that although quite a rudimental form of 3D printing, we could achieve results that we were happy to present to both clients and protential clients with very very possitive results.

Lee Evans Partnership 40th Birthday Celebrations. In September 2014, Lee Evans Partnership Celebrated its 40th year in practice. As part of the celebrations, a event was held at Tower Bridge, London, where clients, professional counterparts and fellow architects gathered to celebrate the achievment. Part of the work displayed was a selection of the partners’ favourite projects from the 40 years in practice, which we had printed on the new 3D printer. This event pressed us to push the boundaries of what the initial uses of the printer was intended to be, as it forced us to create models of a presentation standard.

St Michael’s School Preparatory School, Otford, KentShorne Wood Visitors Centre, Shorne, Kent

Samphire Hoe Visitor Centre, Kent

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The Amphitheatre Designed as a performance arena with a seated capacity of 108 people encircling a small stage. My role on this project was to help redevelop the design of the ribs, produced updated SketchUp models and orthographics in line with these changes. Worked on feasibility schemes to determine whether similar principles of the structure could be re-scaled and be used for alternative uses.

The Restaurant Pod Composed of three pods; one containing a bar and the other two containing restaurant seating and kitchens. My role on this scheme was to produce a SketchUp model and a full set of orthographic drawings in line with changes to the design of the wooden ribs. Redeveloped the pods at various scales to demonstrate their versatility. Designed interior layouts for the pods to be suitable for domestic use.

Media used - SketchUp, Photoshop, Vray, AutoCAD

Section through The Amphitheatre

Image of the Rib Structure of The Amphitheatre

Elevation of The Amphitheatre

Visual of The Restaurant Pod

Plan of The Restaurant Pod

Elevation of The Restaurant Pod

11The Burning Man Amphitheatre Project was a concept for the Burning Man Festival in America. A wooden ribbed structure to be suspended from a crane, with a skin wrapped around the perimeter to act as a screen for visual media to be projected onto. My role was to produce SketchUp models of the scheme to determine how the capacity was effected by the diameter of the structure.

Media used SketchUp, Mental Ray, Photoshop

Feasibility study image demonstrating a 17 seat amphitheatre

Feasibility plan demonstrating a 36 seat amphitheatreFeasibility image of Amphiteatre at The Burning Man Fesitval

12The Hive Gallery structure to be suspended around a tree with access via a ladder to the underside. Within the scheme is 360° of exhibition space in the form of wooden boxes and shelves. My role for this project was to redesign the interior layout to demonstrate the structure could have the potential to be used in a private capacity as well as for the public. Within these private experiments, it was discovered that the space could accommodate a mezzanine sleeping area, and a small living area.

Media used - SketchUp, Photoshop, AutoCAD

Gallery Space Plan

Mezzanine Plan

Conceptual visual of how the hive would appear at night

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Who knew boredom could be so interesting? But it’s not just being bored; it’s what kind of boredom you are experiencing that has researchers intrigued. ShareAccording to an article published in the journal Motivation and Emotion, there are five types of boredom—which is one more than the research team expected to identify. The boredom varie-ties range from a calm and pleasant experience to something more like depression.The research team, led by Thomas Goetz of the University of Konstanz and the Thurgau University of Teacher Education in Konstanz, Germany, collected real-time data from university and high-school students multiple times a day over a two-week period. They found that boredom is not only widespread—every student in the study experienced some level of boredom—but it’s also more common than other emotions. feelings, and rated how calm or fidgety they felt. The research team, led by Thomas Goetz of the University of Konstanz and the Thurgau University of Teacher Education in Konstanz, Germany, collected real-time data from university and high-school students multiple times a day over a two-week period. They found that boredom is not only widespread—every student in the study experienced some level of boredom—but it’s also more common than other emotions. feelings, and rated how calm or fidgety they felt. urban

14The brief for the Urban design project was to design a Museum of Architecture in Ramsgate, a town famous for its historic relationship with the sea. The interesting combination of the urban landscape and the sea was something that inspired the design of my building; an early concept idea was to create views from within the building in order to accentuate the most significant parts of Ramsgate which included the harbour and the old town.

I developed the scheme mostly through the use of sketches and by modelling development maquettes, which allowed me, and my design tutor, to fully understand the scheme from an early stage. This was a very beneficial exercise, as issues with the scheme were picked up upon quickly which allowed me to go about designing in an effective manner.

Media used - pencil and biro on paper

Development models and sketches

15The design is divided into three primary areas; public space, private space and educational space. The public sector, which is formed mostly of gallery space, was positioned on the side of the site from where the main pedestrian routes would arrive at the building. This was also a useful position for the gallery space to be positioned as it had access to all the key views of Ramsgate around which one of my key concepts was based. The private and educational areas were positioned on the ‘quiet’ side of the site, which allowed me to create a more private environment for the staff of the museum, not all of whom would necessarily be involved in the day to day running of the public zones of the building.

Media used - 3ds Max, Mental Ray, Photoshop, AutoCAD

Typical Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

View from gallery space overlooking sculpture garden and bookshop

16From early on in the development of the design, I intended to create a buffer zone between the public areas and the private and educational facilities. Initially, this space was to be used for services and to help bring light into the building; However, as the scheme developed, I decided to use part of this space as a circulation route, with the jewel in the crown being a ramped walkway which would create an exciting route down the building, with dramatic views out over the harbour.

Media used - SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop

View from top of Ramped Walkway looking out over Ramsgate Harbour Long Section

Short Section

17In the design of the scheme, natural ventilation and lighting strategies were incorporated. The main source of fresh air is to come from earth tubes, which would cool/heat fresh air extracted from outside before being fanned around the building. The main source of light into the gallery spaces would come from a large glazed screen to the south as well as ancillary windows and rooflights. To prevent overheating in the summer months, an overhang to the main screen would prevent direct sunlight from entering the building and heating up the space.

Media used - 3ds Max, Mental Ray, Photoshop, AutoCAD,

Summer Sunlight StrategySummer Ventilation Strategy

View looking from top floor gallery space out over Ramsgate Harbour

18Image 1 - Diagram showing the ventilation and natural lighting strategies incorporated into the building.IImage 2 - View looking from bookshop over towards the gallery spaces.

Image 3 - Presentation Model

Materials used - 3ds Max, Mental Ray, Photoshop, SketchUp, Cardboard, Perspex

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20The Modular design brief asked us to design student accommodation, using a repetition of identical units on a historic site in the centre of Canterbury. My concept for this scheme was to use my building to frame a view of Canterbury Cathedral that can be seen from a corner of the site.

The initial weeks of this design project involved working in groups to produce a masterplan for the site which would include a building for each member of the group. Our approach to the site was to aim to be as sensitive as possible, choosing to emphasise the existing open space rather than to disrupt it.

Media used - Photoshop, AutoCAD, Pencil, Watercolour

Concept Image

Group Site Plan

21During the development of the scheme, my concept evolved to include the framing of a medieval Grayfriars building , which was located in very close proximity to my allocated lot of site. I created a ‘View Analysis Diagram’ to help determine the most appropriate position for my building to be situated, and with this information, I built a sketch model of the site which incorporated all the calculated parameters. By using a contextual model throughout the development of my scheme, I was able to ensure that the building both stayed true to my early conceptual ideas, and remained sensitive to its surroundings.

Media used - Photoshop, AutoCAD, Cardboard

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22The modular that I designed to be replaced to form the building was divided into four primary zones; working, dressing, sleeping and washing. With these key areas defined, I arranged a plan which allowed the student to have a compact yet organised room, with plenty of room for living, working and storage. The defining element of each unit however would be a window seat which would allow the tenant to sit in whilst studying, or just enjoy the view of the Greyfriars garden and the River Stour. To form my building each of the units were bunched in groups of five or six which included a communal kitchen unit.

Media used - Photoshop, AutoCAD, SketchUp

Section A Section B

Key Moves

Unit Plan

Section Showing Arrangement of Unit

23This exploded diagram shows how each of the units would be constructed; A steel frame was used as the primary structure, with stud walls with dense rockwool insulation to divide the rooms. A Hollow core concrete slab was chosen for the floor to reduce the overall floor to floor heights, which in turn helped minimise the vertical impact of the building. The outside of my building was to be constructed of handmade bricks with the window seats to be steel framed, clad in sheet copper.

Media used - 3ds Max, Mental Ray, Photoshop

Exploded Diagram

24The form of my plan was created in conjunction with my ‘View Analysis Diagram’. To help with privacy, fire escape and site issues The Ground Floor contains only one wing of student accommodation; this floor is mostly made up of a communal study area in the main atrium space, and the building services. The Typical Floor Plan shows how the floors with all three wings housing accommodation are arranged.

Media used - AutoCAD, Photoshop, SketchUp

View of the Greyfriars building from the entrance of my schemeView of Canterbury Cathedral framed by the proposed building

Typical Floor PlanGround Floor Plan

landscape

26The brief for the Landscape module, was to design a building and landscape plan for Stour Valley Arts to use as an educational centre in Kingswood, Kent. My concept behind the design was to enhance the mysterious experience of the woodland, by playing with the visitors senses to create a journey around the woodland to reach the destination. This sense of mystery was created in both the landscape and the building, by using forms found in the woodland to help inspire the design.

Media used - Pencil, Pen, Watercolour

Site Plan

Observational Sketches

27The concept behind making the façades and plan of my design in the forms they became, is based on the negative space created by the chaos of the branches of the sweet chestnut trees. I felt these seemingly random forms would help engage the building with its surrounding woodland, and ultimately, help tie it in with my main concept of enhancing the mystery of the woodland.

Media used - pen, watercolour

East Elevation

South Elevation

First Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

North Elevation

28The view of the building through the coppice gives a representation of what a visitor to the site would see on their approach to the building.

Media used - Cardboard, Photoshop

Final Presentation Model

Concept Image

timmatthews91@hotmail.com07425 175 645

3 The Maltings, Roper Road,Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7DQ