Matthew Bryant’s Sample Portfolio

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The client requested a family home that naturally ventilated, with the ability to entertain on an inner city site in Medan, Indonesia.

The layout was split programmatically into public and private, with the entertaining wing able to open up to the drop-off and garden.

We created a contemporary form sculpted to cap-ture the low average winds that pass, with screens to control daylight while allowing airflow.

This is my favourite project from the last three years, I have been Project Architect and taken it through to technical design. Permits approval is ex-pected this month, and ground breaking next year.

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[2012-] Broadway Malyan

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Fatmawati was an invited competition to design a multi-tower condominium in an up-and-coming area of Jakarta.

To address the serious yearly flooding, we drew in-spiration from lily ponds and Balinese rice terraces to give an aesthetic that was contemporary yet would rise the project above the high water line.

The high end unit towers featured interlocking duplex apartments.

I was project Architect for the entry, co-ordinating the various departments and personalities involved wile drawing together the report and designs of the separate units and towers.

[2014] Broadway Malyan

1. Site Entrance2. Security3. Retail Plaza4. Retail / Serviced Apartments5. Flower Residential6. Leaf Residential7. Tower Drop-off8. Club / Gym9. Lap Pool10. Event Space11. Pedestrain Bridge

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Burj 2020 was an invited competition to master plan the proposed site of the tallest office build-ings in the world for DMCC, the Dubai commodities trading commission.

The project explored the concept and function of the courtyard in vernacular Middle Eastern architec-ture, and explored how these spaces can be taken into the sky, creating social spaces for play, relaxa-tion and interaction.

I was responsible for project managing the team involved in the entry, co-ordinating with consultants around the world, arranged digital artists impres-sions and worked on the design of the office tower.

[2014] Broadway Malyan

1. Tower Section2. Physical Model3. Public viewing gallery

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The Castle Step

The first half of the year was dedicated to design-ing a piece of urban furniture, starting with gaining an understanding of the city as a large scale urban choreography.

My work questioned the image of Nottingham Castle, once grand and now forgotten against the Arndale carpark, never grand or forgotten.

By affecting change to both, I challenged a viewer to connect the castle and carpark as monuments within the city, questioning their role and position as part of the urban fabric.

[2011] Final Year Thesis University of Nottingham

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1. Ducal Palace2. Old Drawbridge3. Toilet Block4. Gatehouse // Old Battlement walls5. Bandstand6. Ye Olde Trippe to Jerusalem7. Student Residences8. Brewerhouse Museum9. Old Victorian School Museum

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Archive, Bar, City Gallery

Continuing the ideas of the furniture as a way of understanding and reading the city, I proposed a programmatic insertion of an archive, bar and ur-ban showcase to act as a registration of the city and together talk about the life of the city from the past and into the future.

The location is a key gesture in the design, by drop-ping the building into the old moat we posit it at the heart of Nottingham, historically and geographi-cally, while also allowing it views across the River Trent’s floodplain and the city of Nottingham itself.

1. Ducal Palace2. Old Drawbridge3. Toilet Block4. Gatehouse / Old Battlement walls5. Bandstand6. Ye Olde Trippe to Jerusalem7. Student Residences8. Brewerhouse Museum9. Old Victorian School Museum

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The building acts as a stepping stone bridging the ancient rock face, and offering a new route up into the heart of the castle, by opening a crack in the rock and bringing you up through layers of data, metaphorically time travelling as you enter the castle.

Materials reflect the archives position as part of the castle wall, and the multi-layered city it is a part of. The building is designed to weather with the site, copper will patinate and the stone walls will grow mouldy lending an air of permanence to the structure. In this matter it starts a dialogue with the aging facade of the ducal palace, and the layers of rock into which it’s dropped.

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The highlight of my Part I experience was working on the renovation of St. Johns College Cambridge Divinity School, the Grade II listed building built by Sir Basil Champneys in 1879.

The project saw the disused building thoroughly cleaned and the heart opened up with the removal of some modern partitions. It was also brought up to compliance with building regulations and turned into a performance space much loved by musicians.

I was involved with extensive digital and physical modelling of the building for study, and put togeth-er the Stage C document for planning submission.

[2007] Annand & Mustoe Architects

The firm has a long standing partnership with the University of Cambridge’s School of Physical Sci-ences, and over the years has been responsible for building a new quad, of which the Kavli Centre for Cosmology is the third of four buildings.

Featuring research stations, a lecture hall and of-fices, the building uses brise soleil ground source heat pumps, a heat exchanger serving under-floor heating and natural ventilation through the central corridor spaces.

My role as assistant was to model complicated areas to check for clashes, update and colour draw-ings and build a Skethcup model for presentations and other graphics.

[2007] Annand & Mustoe Architects