Andy Matthews[Sample Portfolio]

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“...exceptional circumstances”Final Masters Project/Thesis - Royal College of Art (RCA) 2013/14

Awards/Exhibitions:- Awarded ‘RCA/NLA (New London Architecture) Prize 2014’ for best RCA Master’s project- Published in Blueprint Magazine ‘Best UK Student Projects 2014’ September/October edition- Exhibited at The Building Centre (Ground Floor Gallery), 18th August - 4th September 2014

Brief Description:In January 2014, the sleepy village of Yalding on the outer edge of the Metropolitan Green Belt was leaked as one of the proposed sites for a new Garden City on the edge of London. Exceptional Circumstances takes this speculation as the starting point for an investigation into how our food is farmed and sold, its relationship to urban form and lifestyle choice.

Using a tactic of ‘green belt offsetting’, a site for the speculative new town of Great Yalding is provided on low-quality land that happens to be Metropolitan Green Belt, whilst a stretch of currently vulnerable farmland is newly protected. At the boundary of these two conditions, a new market is established which mediates between agricultural production and the new settlement.

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1) The Metropolitan Green Belt boundary currently splits the area of Yalding in half, with the both the trainline and river acting as the official boundary. However, the area currently protected by the green belt is completly undevelopped due to poor quality farmland , and the green belt legislation. The area outside the Green Belt remit has became increasingly farmed, with intensive farming polytunnels appearing. The proposed strategy is to use ‘Green Belt Offsetting’ to deregulate the poor quaity farmland to provide room for development in an area of high housing demand, whilst the unproteeted farmland becomes regulated under the Green Belt, protecting British farmland from being sold. A new town is formed upon this boundary; Great Yalding

This project focusses upon one public space within Great Yalding, the new market square, situated upon the boundary line. In light of the current polarisation of the UK grocery market, the square aims to create a new grocery typology offering a selection of sundries and fresh food of varying qualities and authenticities, playing upon the snobbery and Middle Class tension of supermarket selection. It combines the dis-count, pallet stacked efficiency of the thriving Lidl and Aldi stores with the trendy and ‘organic’ farmers market typology, selling fresh green belt produce, whilst completly by-passing the luxury stores of Waitrose and Marks + Spencer. Using Tesco as Client (albeit under a rebranded ‘back-to-its-roots’ trading name of T.E.Stockwell & Co.), it becomes a typology to reclaim the middle ground of the grocery market.

1) The Metropolitan Green Belt boundary currently splits the area of Yalding in half, with the train-line and river acting as boundary

2) The area protected by Green Belt is undevelopped due to poor quality farmland and legislation. The area outside the Green Belt is

intensively farmed with polytunnels

3) The strategy is to de-regulate part of the current green belt, and regulate the farmland, enabling room for development and protecting

British farmland. Great Yalding is formed upon the boundary

Strategy (Town Scale)

Strategy (Program/Typology)

Triptych: The Middle Class meet the Migrant WorkersPage 2

Left: Royal College of Art, SHOW 2014, June 2014. Middle: Exhibition for NLA/RCA prize 2014, Aug-Sept 2014 Right: Extract from Green Belt Field Guide (2013/4)

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Great Yalding Market Square

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Bethnal Green MRFFirst Year Project - Royal College of Art (RCA) 2013

Brief Description:Up until 2013 the UK processed the majority of its plastic recycling in China. Freight ships, after delivering goods from China, would transport Britains plastic waste back to Asia as return cargo on an otherwise empty ship. Yet in 2013, Britains plastic waste was deemed ‘too dirty’, due to its lack of real and serious plastic recycling operations as seen throughout other parts of the developped world. Only 1 in 2 boroughs in London recycles plastic. Bethnal Green MRF, is a community plastic recycling centre, decentralised and ran by the local council. Old plastic isn’t seen as waste, rather as a valubale material. The Guildhall and workshops within the building aim to celebrate plastic craft (both in analogue format and digital) testing both creative commons and open source technologies.

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Right: 1:1 ScaleHandmade prototype of facade module. Made with resin and recycled HDPE. Each module interlocks to collect rainwater from roof run-off and driving rain, also incorporating aero-ponic plant growth.

Above: External and internal views of Bethnal Green Materi-als Recycling Facility.

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Wembley FlyTowerFirst Year Project - Royal College of Art (RCA) 2012

Achievements:- Selected by design jury into final shortlist- Commended by Client, awarded Third place

Brief Description:Wembley Meanwhile Spaces was a competition ran by Brent Council with the Royal College of Art, to create a meanwhile use space close to Wembley Stadium.With a budget of £100,000, the idea was to provide much needed artist residences for Brent, whilst drawing up a plan to release the funds incrementally over the 5 year lease period. In doing this, the temporary structure would evolve during the course of the let, with diffferent artists leaving their mark on the building, simultaneously generating an archive of previous residencies.This scheme was selected by a jury to make the final shortlist.Now working with a team of other students, my scheme was worked up into a drawing package for construction. For the final competition, the scheme was commended by the Client and awarded Third place.

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Initial concept sketch for first round of competition

Proposed development of scheme over 5 years Developped design for final round of competition

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Fuel for ThoughtFinal Year Project - University of Brighton 2010

Brief Description:This project was based upon mixing and overlapping the commercial aspect of Brighton’s North Laines with the educational zone of Bright-on City College. Situated on the current car park of the college, the project celebrates mechanical elements and is designed around the car park, rather than hiding it. The car park became the basis of the design process. Additionally, with Brighton being very much a 24 hour city, the scheme aims to emphasise this by creating a form of movement and evolution throughout the day.The car park became a Drive In Cinema at night. The car was also cel-ebrated by including a Drive In Tempura Sushi Resaurant where used cooking oil was converted into petrol to fuel up cars whilst the owners ate. At night-time, a screen would come across to hide the pumping of the old oil and replenishing of petrol from the transestrification plant, which acted as a cinema screen. From this, glycerin, a by-product from making petrol from used cooking oil, was made into soap and hygiene products for students of the college to sell as an enterprise, connecting the retail and education together

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Change of program from nighttime to daytime

The view from the London Road

Drive-In Sushi Bar/Drive-In Cinema

In Practice/Freelance(LA Architects, Brighton) July 2010 - June 2012Freelance, (Draftsman/Designer) 2012 - present

Key Skills:Specialising and working mainly on sports & leisure projects of £15-20million value, with a handful of residential and small pavilion projects also.Experience of RIBA workstages A-H.Running small pavilion + residential projects.Internal finishes and fit-out detailing of larger projects.Graphic layouts and material boards.Working well with a design team; issuing drawings, drawing various component packages. Good understanding of current building regulations.Plenty of experience dealing with clients, the design team, and manufacturers.Organising the in house CPD series.

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Ullswater House (LA Architects): Full planning submission, RIBA workstages A-C

Kings Cross B3 Leisure Centre (LA Architects): Digital Renders, Detailed drawing Packages, RIBA workstages C-F

Cafeteria Refit: Hand-drawn sketches, digital visualisations, drawings for planning permission

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