Bobby Nolen | Portfolio 2019
CONTENTS
1 4 2 7 5 3 8 6 9
DEFORM REFORM
HYPERLOOP STATION Fall 2015-Academic Instructor: Brian Gibbs Team: Bobby Nolen | Justin Zumel | Christian Stiles This project is centered on the idea of a morphing geometry reactng to external variables derived from the site and the developments in the form itself. These variables manifest themselves as objects and as regulating lines that carve out of the object to form a fragmented geometry that contains indices of said variables.
1
2
3
1.
Overall blocked length of the site. Divided based on major highway elements
2.
Boolean Object based on the geometry of the tubes is introduced
3.
Main Object is expanded and subtracted from by reinserted Boolean Object
The primary infuencing elements for the object are the tubes for the Hyperloop and the major axes of the site, the Olive Ave overpass and the I-5 highway directly adjacent. The axes were initally projected onto the object to create fully transparent voids. The axis at Olive Ave demands a change in the form of the building causing it to pull outward on both sides and engage the overpass to create a connecton to the city. Once this connecton is established the network of tubes for the Hyperloop, which was also designed, protrudes into the building causing the building to infate and twist in various moments based on the curves of the tubes. In additon, there is another object introduced that is composed of several curved hard edge objects that encapsulate the tubes. Drawing from ideas put forward by Daniel Libeskind in his Berlin Jewish Museum these objects subtract from each other and leave traces of themselves.
STRUCT ARCH
Contemporary Art Museum | Houston Fall 2016-Academic Instructor: Craig Babe Team: Bobby Nolen | Ysaac Bustamante This project consists of a full design of implementing an understanding of architectural, structural, and systematic design to achieve an efficient and effective space for people to dwell and view art.
1
2
3
4 1.
Address corner of site.
2.
Divide programmatic spaces into houses with “light chimneys� connecting them.
3.
Intersect gallery spaces with the houses to address the street corner.
4.
Space underneath cantilevered gallery, contrasting structures, windows, and shading.
These elements have coalesced to form the fnal project that is the new facility for housing the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston (CAMH). On this design, the structure is expressed through its exposure of itself and its infuence on the programmatc spaces as well as giving a nod to its surrounding context through the presence of its exterior design. The systems of the building play into the structure by either being one with the structure itself or by deriving its geometry from the form of it. Architecturally, this project addresses the typologies of its context. It represents the mixed residential and commercial nature of Houston’s Montrose region by contrastng the two through structural material choice and the form of an American house vs the form of a typical warehouse.
A’
B
B’
A
GROUND LEVEL
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
#4 Rebar 12” Sitecast Concrete #4 Rebar Ties Rigid Insulation Weeping Holes Precast Concrete Rigid Insulation Ties 2/5” Water Barrier 5/8” Sheathing 3/20” Steel Steel Seam Box Gutter Electrical Channel Fluorescent Light 5mm Steel Sheet Glare Protection 62mm Triple Glazing Grade Beam Sand Pile Footing
PROTO INDEX
Scalable High Density Spring 2015-Academic Instructor: Gilles Retsin | Gabriel Esquivel Team: Bobby Nolen | Nathan Garcia | Stephanie Almendares | Will Richard In Architecture there are many different tools that we use to communicate with objects that we happen to be in close proximity to. These forensic tools come in many different forms and processes, such as drawings, diagrams, and other means of representaton.
As we communicate with the object, we begin to recognize it appears to be similar to an Indexical project. This object seems to have some of the same qualites of the Eisenman’s House 10 due to the appearance of an axonometric representaton. This Axonometric is a system of interlocking L’s that were each independently generated. However, this object predates these projects by Eisenman because it is pre-indexical. It is before any of the parts to whole relatonships were understood and diagrammed. Due to this, we are initally only able to understand it as a Proto-Idexical Project. In our attempts to understand this object further we must attempt to communicate to it. To accomplish this goal we generated multple forms of representaton. This axonometric is not an indexical diagram. We use the axonometric as our selected vehicle of communicaton and representaton. The study of the Stanley Tigerman diagram was further used to communicate with the object. We use this to perceive its infnitesimal propertes and how this is just a snapshot of the object. The object also gives off a Piranesian sense of deterioraton and substance through an affectve quality that is
before the synthetic. The communicaton between this Piranesian representaton and the object is what suggests deterioraton and rusticaton. The landscape generates an affectve romantic realism. The object will exist where it does and our atempts to communicate to it have no effect on it.
INDEX
Indexicality: Axonometric Museum Fall 2014-Academic Instructor: Gabriel Esquivel Individual On this project an observation of parts to whole relatonships were implemented as a means of designing. This design focused on the breaking up of a plan, particularly the foorplan of the Beard House by Richard Neutra.
A series of linework drawings were used to determine a way to translate its prior purposes as defined by the original designer into a new meaning. From the Beard House this reading developed into an axonometric design that is grounded on an oblique surface. This design gives the viewer freedom to not be stuck in one point of view such as in an axonometric drawing, but now he or she can move around the object and begin to understand its different complexites.
This project began with the analysis of the foor plan of the Beard House by Richard Neutra. Found within the plan, was the layout of a 9 square grid. Moving on, the diagrams developed the possibility of using the diagonals of the grid to divide and to shift the plan two dimensionally. The two dimensional drawing become a 3D representatonal model that illustratres the same principles that were present in the diagrams. This model in partcular developed as an axonometric model based on the diagonals from the original grid.
LONE OAK
Lone Oak FBC | Paducah, KY HH Architects Master Planning This church in Kentucky is a complex of buildings that is expanding the size of their education classroom capacity as well as updating with a new lobby and dining area.
For this project the goal in exterior materials is to match the existing structure as closely as possible while creating new spaces that allow for a more inviting entryway than what they currently possess. They also desire to have more natural light flooding their lobby and cafe spaces. The overall site is going to contain ample space for play fields and trails for other recreational activities. Future development includes a chapel nestled in the woods as well as an amphitheater that will allow for outdoor teaching and group worship gatherings amongst the trees. My primary role on this project was to provide imagery that would be used to present the master planning concept to the client. The colored site plan was developed and created by myself and the renders were a collaboration between me and another employee. She created the views from Revit, I rendered them on Enscape, and edited them on Photoshop.
KEY SCHOOL
Key Center For Learning Disabilities HH Architects Fort Worth, TX A small private school for K-12 students in Fort Worth needs new facilities after operating and growing in a strip center for multiple years. The program here provides focused education to students who have Dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, and various other learning disabilities.
3 2 1
1.
Primary walking paths from the parking lot
2.
Fire Lane driveway for dropoff and pickup of students
3.
Courtyard area for activities, recess, etc.
This project consists of a campus of four buildings totalling 40,000sf that serve in several different ways. Building A serves as the lobby & primary entryway for parents to come visit the school’s offices as well as the classrooms for students requiring extra attention for teaching. Building B is the educational building containing the classrooms for the students based on a teacher to student ratio of 1:6. This building has a ICC-500 storm shelter component as required under IBC 2015 made of 8� ICF units that blends in with the rest of the building. Building C is the dining center & arts complex that opens outward into the courtyard. There will be band, digital arts and other arts contained here. Each space can be used for presentations, exhibits, and concerts as necessary all under one roof. These three buildings constitute the spaces where students will collect in classes and form in the courtyard area for outdoor classes and activities. Building D is where the whole of Fort Worth ISD is going to receive training for teaching children with learning disabilities. It will also contain more offices for the district and for Key Center for Learning Disabilities.
7"
Roofing Membrane Roof Board
Rigid Insul. Prefinished Mtl. Coping Wood Nailer Stl. Angle; Ref. Struct.
5/8" Roof Sheathing
Wood Blocking
Wood Deck; Ref. Struct. Stl. Beam; Ref. Struct.
Tapered Stl. Girder; Ref. Struct.
HEARTH HUT
Latvia Amber Road Trekking Cabins Independent | Fall 2017 Team: Bobby Nolen Come on in. Enjoy the destination of your journey. Be at home in the HEARTH. Feel the Warmth of the FIRE wafting through the bunks. Raise the glass panels of the HEARTH to feel the breeze in thetrees invigorate your senses. This is home. Stick around for awhile. Stay the Night. You are always welcome to rest your tired bones and to refuel with food and water. Layout your bags to bed down however you please, in the HUT, on the floor, next to the fire. Enjoy yourself. The Latvian Amber Road offers beautiful routes along the coast to enjoy in the daytime.
Nestled in the woods just off of the Latvian coastline, these individual huts provide places of respite for dayhikers and backpackers. Travellers along the future 530km Latvian Amber Road Trekking Paths can trek into the woods off of the primary trail to find these shelters awaiting them.
Hut
Latvian tourism is yet to take off. Acting as catalysts for the industry, these paths are set to be constructed and allow people to appreciate the natural beauty of this region. The namesake for the route comes from the desposits of amber that come from the ocean as the tides rise and fall on the coast. The goal of the competition was to design a small shelter/cabin that can be replicated in different locations with various types of vegetation and soil. The structures cannot have a major impact on the environment and must provide ample, comfortable protection from mosquitos and weather.
Fire
Hearth
Galleries (Pen on Paper)
Layers (Pen on Paper)
Untitled (Pen on Paper)
Intersections (Pen on Paper)
Left: Ghosts (Mixed Media 2016) Center: Touch (Mixed Media 2016) Right: A Leaf (Mixed Media 2016)