Places Lived: Red Places Traveled: Black

Matthew A BardonEmail: mt bardon@gmail.com

Phone: 206-724-4993Address: 235 NW Anthony st #3,

Pullman, WA 99163

Objective:To work in a collaborative, design focused, Architecture fi rm that fosters future licensing and personal growth.

Interests:Outdoors, fi tness, drawing, painting, digital fabrication, 3D modeling, skiing, mountain biking, and traveling.

Awards and Achievements:Eagle Scout, June 2008Accepted into the one year accelerated graduate program at Washington State University, December 2013

Languages:EnglishFrenchArabic

Applicable Software:Rhino, Grasshopper, Lumion, Adobe Creative Suite, Revit, 3DS Max, Autocad, Sketchup, Depthmap, and Ecotect

Education:Master’s of ArchitectureWashington State University 2014-May 2015Bachelor of Science in ArchitectureWashington State University 2010-2014AP High School DiplomaSingapore American School 2006-2008 Volunteering:Graduate Advisor: 3D Printing Club 2014-PresentWashington State UniversityI am the advisor and coordinator for the 3D printing club at WSU.Tukey Orchard 2012-2014Washington State UniversityVolunteer to gain access to fresh, organic produce.Boy Scouts 2002-2008My Eagle Scout project was to renovate an existing trail and to provide erosion control. I worked with the city for 6 months to complete the trail.Work Experience:Graduate Teaching Assistant, WSU 2014-PresentI work as a teaching assistant for the fi rst year Foundational drawing and sketching class in the School of Design and Construction. I was chosen based on a portfolio of drawings, and I really enjoy teaching something that I am passionate about. Advertising Director Protection One Security Summer 2014 I received training in sales and learned the business behind home au-tomation and security. I marketed and advertised home security as well as home automation to residential clients.Lab Assistant, USDA Summer 2013 I worked in a wheat lab running centrifuge protein analysis on wheat. This job gave me a clinical view of organization when collecting data.Food Preparation, Leader Creek Fisheries Summer 2012 Going to Alaska to work gave me the opportunity to see a part of the world I had always wanted to experience.Bike Technician, Gregg’s Bellevue Cycle 2006-2008Worked as a bike mechanic during the summers in high school. I am still passionate about building and fi xing bikes.

Steam Bending Page 7

Modular Units Page 8

Breaking the Stigma Page 5

Community Center Page 6

Art Gallery Page 3,4

Inclined Planes Page 1,2

Art Page 9

Table of ContentsGraduate and Under Graduate Portfolio

Matthew BardonArchitecture StudentArtistTravelerDual Citizen

About MeMoving all over the world has given me a great appreciation for architecture. Traveling, along with my graduate level education at Washington State University, has given me a broad education. From a global education came a passion with something that can connect us all: architecture. My interest in Architecture has continued to fuel my passion for travel, as well as art. I have been drawing and painting since before I can remember, and this gives me the ability to communicate and collaborate with groups easily. I am heavily interested in 3D Modeling and Digital Fabrication, as you will see from the following projects. Thank you for your time, and I hope you enjoy this collection of work.

35’ 47’

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Commercial

STEM

The sloping form takes advantage of the topography on the site in order to maximize outdoor circulation, and access to indoor space. The STEM and commercial areas are programmed according to density of pedestrian traffic.

Inclined Planes:STEM University Commercial Hub

Seattle, WAGraduate Studio 2014

Professor: Matt CohenGroup Members: Matthew

Bardon, Xixi He, and Jose Hurtado

Our goal was as follows: to Create a pedestrian-focused urban campus through a mixed use STEM university that focuses on walk-ability, in particular exploring ways in which the natural slope of the site can facilitate movement through multiple levels along a network of inclined planes. Working with VIA Architects in Seattle as well as our professor, this project creates a connection with the surrounding neighborhood of Uptown as the bridge to the Seattle Center.

The process of documenting and researching the typology of the urban fabric inspired us to develop an urban intervention that would facilitate a connection between the Seattle Center and Uptown. By using these inclines planes and taking advantage of the natural slope, we were able to create a new template for the urban campus.

Seattle, WAThe Uptown and Seattle Center Connection as a Pedestrian Typology

Art Gallery:4 Galleries, One Space

Seattle, WA4th Year Studio

Professor: Arash Adel

This Project was put on a site owned by the city, mostly used as a gravel parking lot. The lot has two beautiful trees that provide a shading canopy during the summer. Every Sunday in this neighborhood there is an art-walk, where people sell crafts on the street. An art gallery on this street would function as a permanent headquarters for this social atmosphere. The area of the galleries totals 3000 square feet, and by lifting up one of the galleries and recessing the ground, an outdoor gallery is added. These four galleries promote a social atmosphere already occurring in the neighborhood, but this building supports it even further.

Openings: Isocurves in y/x direction

Stairs: Isocurves in z direction

Trees Dictate Form Form Responds

Connections:Artistic Invitation between exhibition space

The connection between the galleries are based on a rotational geometric algorithm that uses hyperbolic surfaces. This simple algorithm (left) can be used to connect a wide range of different variations. These connections open the space of the gallery to give provide an open feeling to the space, as well as a dynamic lighting condition. This project invites the viewer to move from gallery to gallery seamlessly in order to have access to the entire exhibition.

The homeless on the streets are stigmatized and marginalized on the streets of Seattle. Homelessness is a part of the human condition often documented by artists, and put into exhibitions. This romanticism is enjoyed within the art gallery or museum, but once the audience leaves they are no more in touch with the real homeless on the streets.

In an effort to bring awareness to the homeless in Seattle I propose that we bridge this psychological gap outside the gallery. By setting up spaces for the homeless people in our city to display their art we will start a social dialogue about the stigma of homelessness. This art will connect people on the street, and improve the stigma in many peoples mind. Furthermore, it will offer something that will help people economically.

Breaking the Stigma:Artistic ExpressionGraduate Summer Studio

Coordinators: Rex Holbein and Tom Maul

The upper floor creates an in-door and outdoor area that fol-lows a path down in elevation along the steepest part of the site.

Inside the lower floor (below), the coffee shop acts as the social meeting-place foe the community.

This project was set in a park that was currently occupied by a multi-functional temporary community center. This lower-income area of Spokane boasts great personality, and I wanted to convey that within my design

The design is shaded by a PTFE tensile roof to resist wind as well as providing an area protected from precipitation. The angled columns provide support for a large covered space that functions as an outdoor community area. The design is originally based on connection between Spokane and peaceful valley as the slope separates the two. This building provides this connection with many social spaces along the way.

Community Center:Peaceful ValleySpokane, WA3rd Year StudioProfessor: Matt Cohen

Plan: Floor 2

Plan: Floor 1

Parametric Design: Steam Bending

Computational Design Seminar Spring 2014

Research Group: Matthew Bardon, Artem Vinnikov, and

Alex ScofieldCoordinator: Arash Adel

This Project aimed to create a Parametric family of wall systems providing seating based on the material specificity of wood. Experimenting with a variety of different woods, we settled on creating the final form with white ash. The parametric definition was built in grasshopper to explore a family of forms. This was based on a vertical expression of sinusoidal curves, and two vertical rails. The exploration yielded a wide matrix of possibilities exhibited to the right.

The form of this project was inspired through the intersection of spheres. Critically thinking about the geometry of a paneling system I explored a multitude of different forms. After this exploration I deduced that it would be interesting to build a modular system that could be digitally fabricated from one single sheet. A simple modular unit is able to give rise to a complex and variable form. Simplicity and complexity are often opponents, this project unites the two using geometry.

Geometric Study: Paneling ToolsModular Units

Computational Design Seminar Fall 2015Coordinator: Chris MassicampoPoint AttractorBoolean Operation

FabricationPaneling System

Art: Drawing & Painting

Traveling somewhere gives me a distinct urge to pull out a sketchbook or start a painting. When you draw a scene, or a person, you begin to understand more than you could have ever noticed had you taken a picture. A drawing is like a journal entry, it can remind you of both your experience and your state of mind. I am drawn to all kinds of media in Art, here are the two forms of artistic expression that I consider a staple.

Thank you for your consideration.