Renovation of an old canning factory

Archi-Garden

Designing for a problematic wood shop in Taiwan caused for the creation of a transformable space. This new wood shop functions as multiple programs: a meeting space, gallery space, work space and party space. This project challenges the idea of function through the idea of transformation. The building is made up of corrugated steel and garage doors with a collapsible tensile structure on its side.

MATTHEW.NOE / GRADUATE TEAM

Instructor: Jr Gang Chi  

Archi-Garden

Designing for a problematic wood shop in Taiwan caused for the creation of a transformable space. This new wood shop functions as multiple programs: a meeting space, gallery space, work space and party space. This project challenges the idea of function through the idea of transformation. The building is made up of corrugated steel and garage doors with a collapsible tensile structure on its side.

MATTHEW.NOE / GRADUATE TEAM

Instructor: Jr Gang Chi  

De_Flate

DONOVAN.BALLANTYNE / MATTHEW.NOE

Chad Pavilion

MATTHEW.NOE 

CONTOUR CHAIR

MATTHEW.NOE

INDUSTRIAL CHAIR

MATTHEW.NOE

Symbiotic Church

The goal of this project is understanding the paradigm shift from the classical understanding of the role of the body to a more contemporary one that derives its influences from socio-political and socio-economic forces of the time. The model represents an economy of excess with the potential to develop more complex materialities by understanding mass through the dynamics of physics beyond gravity.The posture of the mass has to do with its relation ship to the architecture of the site. It grows out from the ground and walls while attaching itself to the surround buildings like a living organism.

MATTHEW.NOE

Instructor: RAMIRO DIAZ-GRANADOS

Immerse(D)

The Immerse(D) project was created to make a spacial condition radically different from its surrounding context Its mission was to involve the occupant in a completely new situation, to envelop them in a space that was unique interesting and private. These conditions were created by merging color, sound, light and the basic building block polystyrene foam cups.

JOHN.RISI / MATTHEW.NOE

Instructor: Kivi Sotoma

Curriculum Vitae

MATTHEW.NOE

Habitation Experimentale

Experimental Living Environment

MATTHEW.NOE

Instructor: Jean Michel Crettaz

Gaia

Gaia in Greek mythology is the primordial Earth Goddess; The great mother of all. Mother Nature to our society. The life force of the planet that is embodied by all living things. I use the term because, in many ways the project is just that, a contained microcosm for the world that once was. I say once was because I think of this thesis as a projection into a future; maybe parallel, maybe actual, but most definitely digital. I begin to wonder what is that world like, who lives there, what do they do. Who are these people and what do they need. Is it even possible to live in such extreme environments; an environment that is changing and slowly dying. Gaia is an adapting and changing place. One in which workers or scientists, agriculturalist or doctors live with sparse nature, animals and other beings as the care takers of one another. All elements here exist together to support the life of all the area. To say the building is alive is a bold statements but in a way it is living and is full of life. Gaia is a landmass and feed destination for aviaries, a new water for the aquatic, a skin and exoskeleton for desalination and a new home for all. The interior is partly a green house, a new Eden. The lower tier is for recreation and the upper levels are for observation and living. The building rests on top of several inflatables, allowing the ability to be mobile to find new resources. I would like to say this project speculates on technological systems we use today with hope that these technologies will grow exponentially. 

MATTHEW.NOE

Instructor: Jean Michel Crettaz

Research Center for Alternate Materials

A rogue man-made pavilion located in the Salton Sea. Programmed as a research facility for the experiment of extracting waters with high salinity in hope of turning excess salt into a building material.

MATTHEW.NOE

Instructor: Jean Michel Crettaz