NOLAN VINSON DALMAN SELECT WORKS
C O N T E N T
A I A
C O M P E T I T I O N
F O L L Y F I L M
2015 - Mar.
Combining Social Dwellings
P A V I L I O N
2016 - May
Creating Ambiguous Space
I N S T I T U T E
2016 - Dec.
Designing Space For Creation and Expression
2017 - Jun.
Exploring Tectonics
Y E E T M A N ’ S
C O V E
A I A
C O M P E T I T I O N
2015 - Mar.
Combining Social Dwellings
P r i vat e Social
Second Floor
First Floor
The concept of this dwelling is exploring the private and social spaces within a single dwelling, and bringing them together. This artist’s residence is meant to be able to be a home as well as a space for one to bring guests and entertain them. In taking two masses, representing the private and social, and intersecting them, a space is able to transition from private to social.
F O L L Y
P A V I L I O N
2016 - May
Creating Ambiguous Space
fol·ly fälē ; noun, a construct with an ambiguous purpose
This collaborative design studio prompted teams comprised of studio mates to design follys to place together on a site at the University of Cincinnati. This folly location is in the middle of the planned site. My team and I developed a language of framing, caging, and lighting manipulation in order to create an experience. This folly was selected to be used in a free standing art expose in OTR Cincinnati, Ohio may 2016
F I L M
I N S T I T U T E
2016 - Dec.
Designing Space For Creation and Expression
M e t r o C i r c u l at i o n
S t r e e t C i r c u l at i o n m
P e d e st r i a n C i r c u l at i o n
Figure Field
Axon
of
Site
of
Site
Proportion Study
E l e vat i o n P r o p o r t i o n i n g
The site of this project is in OTR Cincinnati, Ohio. There is a rich historical background to many of the cities major surrounding areas including their buildings. In order to incorporate an existing building on the given site, after site analysis II developed a proportioning system based on the surrounding context.
Concept Sketch Models
After the creation of a proportional system, I studied forms in physical modeling as well as diagramming. This parti shows the development of concept leading up to the final.
The Film Institute features a central core that the program wraps around. It is a feature that is able to be projected on, and shows selective views based on the banded view ports on each level. The pit represents the pinnacle of film, and how it is seemingly unattainable yet always present.
Fourth Floor
Third Floor
Second Floor
First Floor
The development of section and plans help dissect and create spaces at a human scale. We experience space in section more often than we do in plan, and expressing that in drawing is a personal favorite communicating device.
This Film Institute is an institution for the people. It is not only for the academic and the producers, it is meant to be open to the community. With its open front and massive lighting and visual core, it is intended to pull people in. The film institute would be a place for film premiers, community events, and education.
Y E E T M A N ’ S
C O V E
2017 - Jun.
Exploring Tectonics
In order to generate the form for this tectonic project, I took all of the pathways, walkways, streets, and roads that when extended intersect with the site. I used where those lines fell on the site to create avenues of void in the form. Where these avenues intersected, I raised the topography so that while at an intersection of these major avenues one’s possibilities to explore is easily visible.
Tectonic Studies
Once I laid out the general massing of the project, I began studying tectonics in forms. The tectonic elements created by a spherical subtraction of the mass created moments in frame, plane, and mass that appealed to my exploration in tectonic composition.
I took elements of the tectonic study and incorporated them into a final tectonic example. After the development of the tectonic composition I applied that to the masses that made up the whole design proposition.
I then began to dissect the project in section and created fluctuation in height in order to create spaces on top of the structure that are accessible via the altered typography and to create visual variance.
The final process is fully diving into the building and being able to access what these spaces created by the elements of the tectonic processes. In order to do this I went into one component and dissected it in order to get inside and develop these spaces in a human scale.
The spaces created were variable, but still lent a hint at what they wanted to be. Some more enclosed passage and sequential based spaces became galleries for exhibition.
Even within the same construct the language of the spaces developed was different because of the many dynamic ways the tectonic processes interacted. Other larger spaces with open area and lighting became areas for leisure or play.
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