Dylan Scallan - Architecture Design Portfolio by dtscallan

DYLAN SCALLAN Design Portfolio

Dylan Scallan: UF Bachelor of Architecture | Graduation: Spring 2020

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| Program and Historical Context

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CHELSEA COMMUNITY LIFE CENTER | Understanding Urbanism | 19 - 21

Location: San Martín de las Cañas, Mexico | Year: 2019 | Instructor: Alfonzo Perez

TOWN HALL AND SPORTS HUB Designing Public Space

The project is designed to function as a town hall and sports hub for the local residents. The main idea used in designing this project was to create a public plaza with an adjacent series of functional spaces that can be utilized by a multitude of the town’s people for numerous tasks. Using this principle to guide the design process, the project’s spatial organization developed into a set of larger and more open primary spaces surrounded by more specifically designed and programmed secondary spaces.

Location: Orlando, FL | Year: 2018 | Instructor: N/A

PULSE MEMORIAL Design Competition

This design was submitted to the Pulse Foundation’s call for design ideas for a memorial to the 49 lives lost in the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. The Möbius strip form, with its single continuous face, represents the idea of the victims’ neverending pulse that lives on in all of us.

Location: N/A | Year: 2018 | Instructor: Lee-Su Huang | Partner: Haoshan Jiang

THE ARCHITECT’S FRIEND Practical 1:1 Fabrication

This exercise in CNC fabrication was met with the parameters that the final product should be a full-scale furniture piece that can be assembled with no fasteners (screws/nails) or adhesives, and it must be cut from a single 4’ by 4’ sheet of plywood. The Architect’s Friend is a desk organizer inspired by the sleekness and fluidity of the Art-Deco design movement. It has several storage conditions, including shelves, upright compartments, and a holder for vertical tools such as rolls of paper or rulers.

Location: Gainesville, FL | Year: 2018 | Instructor: Stephen Belton

CROSSROADS EXHIBITION CENTER Unresolved Urban Fabric

An exploration of working within an aged and fragmented urban fabric, this sectional project studies the various modules of downtown Gainesville and reimagines the sense of vibrance and energy pedestrians once felt walking down these streets in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s developing years. The Crossroads Exhibition Center is designed to be an off-campus university extension that serves as an exhibition space for student works across a variety of disciplines. By locating the project in the heart of historical downtown Gainesville, the exhibition center provides a thought-provoking environment for both students and locals to gather and socialize over coffee.

Transverse

Longitudinal

Conceptualizing

Contextualizing

Light Study

Precedent

Location: Manhattan, NY | Year: 2019 | Instructor: Alfonzo Perez | Partners: Adrian Contreras + Kevin Mojica

169 DELANCEY

Large-Scale Urban Intervention Located at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge, 169 Delancey stands as a cultural beacon within the Lower East Side. Resonating with the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural past deeply rooted in the arts, this project is designed to preserve and promote artistic expression in the Lower East Side through education, presentation, and transmission.

Transmission

Presentation

Presentation Broadcasting Station

Education

Hotel Rooms

Mixed-Use Performance Hall

Transmission

Dormitories

Art School Galleries Retail

Connection to The Lowline

Dating back to the late 19th Century, the Lower East Side has developed unbreakable ties to the arts. From music and acting to sculpture and photography, the Lower East Side saw an explosion of art culture as immigrants from all over the world came in pursuit of the American Dream. With the construction of the Williamsburg Bridge that linked Manhattan and Brooklyn, Delancey Street became a major physical and cultural axis within the Lower East Side. Today, traces of that cultural significance can still be seen, and 169 Delancey seeks to bring new life to the art scene in the Lower East Side while reestablishing the cultural significance of Delancey Street.

Legacy

Culture

Tradition

The base of the tower is focused on presentation, boasting a 3-story retail space for artists and art-oriented businesses. Immediately above the commercial space is a series of showcase spaces, including galleries and a small auditorium. These spaces not only serve to feature artistic works conceived in house, but can also feature the work of already-established artists.

Location: N/A | Year: 2018 | Instructor: Lee-Su Huang

POLYHEDRON XIV Digital Fabrication Study

This fabrication project centered around writing a Grasshopper script to build a geometric form and unfold it into a line drawing. This template could then be laser cut and re-folded into a mold for plaster or cement. By inserting a second volume into the poured plaster, the resultant tetradecahedron became functional with a void in the center.

Location: Gainesville, FL | Year: 2017

ARKHITEKTON

Matrix | Fragment | Graft

Location: N/A | Year: 2017 | Instructor: Alfonzo Perez

ARKHITEKTON Abstracting Space

Conceptualized by Kazimir Malevich in the early 20th century, an “arkhitekton” is an architectural matrix that can be understood at many different experiential scales. Characterized by a main compositional armature with smaller components progressively added to it, the final form is purely an assemblage of abstract elements. While Malevich perceived arkhitektons as the “spatialization of abstraction,” this exercise seeks to do the opposite in creating an abstraction of spaces. The construct represents a hierarchical collage of spaces independent of function that allows for the open interpretation of scale and inhabitability. By removing all concepts of program and experience, the arkhitekton becomes a compositional fragment of fields and spatial intersections that can then be grafted into contexts at different scales and understood spatially at every level.

Location: Painted Desert, AZ | Year: 2017 | Instructor: John Maze

FLUID FRONTIERS VIEWING STATION Itinerary-Oriented Experiences

The Fluid Frontiers Viewing Station uses flowing water to draw visitors through an itinerary-oriented project. Although the project works its way down the side of a rock formation in the Painted Desert, visitors find themselves descending through a very dark and cave-like space at the highest point, to a very open and oasis-like reflection place at the end of their experience. At every moment of pause throughout the viewing station, attention is always directed out to the landscape, for beutiful views of the desert during the day and the Milky Way Galaxy at night.

Absorb

Overlook Cave Oasis

Reflect

Location: Charleston, SC | Year: 2018 | Instructor: Stephen Belton

CHARLESTON ACADEMY FOR MUSIC PERFORMANCE Program and Historical Context

This project explores the issues associated with designing a modern intervention in a historic urban context. Drawing on the module of the narrow markets along King Street and the procession of trees along Calhoun Street, the composition uses rigid boxes to rationalize a meandering itinerary. As a performing arts hall specifically intended for music performance, the design incorporates many non-traditional rehearsal and performance spaces, emphasizing that the entire academy should always be filled with music and that anywhere can easily become a stage.

Location: Manhattan, NY | Year: 2019 | Instructor: Alfonzo Perez | Partner: Adrian Contreras

CHELSEA COMMUNITY LIFE CENTER Understanding Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Urbanism

In an attempt to preserve a sense of local culture and community, this project aims to help the community to be able to affordably live in Chelsea. The Chelsea Community Life Center plans to support and strengthen the local identity through several community resources: - Additional affordable public housing that will expand the community, set a new standard of living for public housing in Chelsea, and foster new relationships among residents. - A localized commercial space that will offer affordable products specifically and semi-exclusively for the public housing community at the convenience of a trip downstairs. - A library and winter garden to provide spaces for gatherings and events.

Housing

Offices Civic

Housing - 760,000 SQ.FT. - 47% Offices - 441,500 SQ.FT. - 27% Civic - 193,000 SQ.FT. - 12% Retail - 170,000 SQ.FT. - 10% Public Space - 60,000 SQ.FT. - 04%

Retail

Public Space